100 likes | 229 Views
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. Write the #'s 1-6 on your white board. 2. Answer the following six questions to the best of your ability. RELAX! THIS IS NOT A TEST. · How did you get to school today? ·What is the primary means of transportation in your community?
E N D
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. Write the #'s 1-6 on your white board. 2. Answer the following six questions to the best of your ability. RELAX! THIS IS NOT A TEST ·How did you get to school today? ·What is the primary means of transportation in your community? ·What is the most common form of transportation in the US? ·What fuel makes a car run? ·Where does gasoline come from? ·What is gasoline? http://www.teachingtools.com/EN/documents/Crude_Energy.pdf
PreHistory-1849 Vast Reserves Small scale use 1930-1974 Global Environment 1975-Today Geopolitics 1850-1929 Excavation US = http://www.wbng.com/news/local/137639503.html
PETROLEUM "ROCK OIL" http://iprb.org/storyofpetroleum.html http://www.api.org/story/ http://www.classroom-energy.org/energy_09/1.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/teachers/lp1_handout1.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/teachers/lp2b.html
The Curse of OIL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bCPm-r3s8 start at 7:37 Remember Hydrofracking? What were some of the problems of hydrofracking? Where there control systems in place for safety and contamination ? Determine what the effects might be of a poorly-managed oil industry enterprise.
·An oil pit belonging to Texaco now belongs to another company, Petro Ecuador. ·This company was supposed to clean up some of the oil pits; they have done a totally ineffectual job. ·The water in the pits is tainted with crude oil, it is extremely polluted, and the native population that bathes in the water is getting sick and having skin problems. ·The levels of the pollution in the water are off the charts according to the standards of the Environmental Protection Agency
there has been a lot of debate and controversy surrounding the expansion of the oil industry into protected lands in Alaska http://www.adventuresinenergy.org/Exploration-and-Production/Restoration-of-Offshore-Sites.html determine why environmentalists fear the consequences of expanding oil drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvIKV4vrZOQ&feature=related oil sands in Canada http://video.pbs.org/video/2110582932
Synthetic Oil ·If time and temperature are all it takes to make oil, why can’t it be made by humans? ·It can be and is made synthetically, but mostly just for research. ·The process of creating an oil-like substance in a laboratory is called pyrolysis. ·The amount of time it takes to make oil is decreased in the lab by increasing the temperature. The only problem is, it takes more energy to create the oil than energy the oil could provide.
The Journey http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/journey/index.html
The Science http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/science/index.html