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Energy. Chapter 13. Section 13-1. What is net energy and why is it important?. Basic science: Net energy is the only energy that really counts.

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  1. Energy Chapter 13

  2. Section 13-1 What is net energy and why is it important?

  3. Basic science: Net energy is the only energy that really counts • The usable amount of high-quality energy available from a given quantity of an energy resource is its net energy yield: the total amount of useful energy available from an energy resource minus the energy needed to make it available to consumers. • We can express net energy as the ratio of energy produced to the energy used to produce it. As the ratio increases, the net energy also rises. When the ratio is less than 1, there is a net energy loss.

  4. Net energy ratios for various energy systems over their estimated lifetimes differ widely

  5. Fig. 13-2a, p. 301

  6. Fig. 13-2b, p. 301

  7. Fig. 13-2c, p. 301

  8. Fig. 13-2d, p. 301

  9. Energy resources with low or negative net energy need help to compete in the marketplace • Any energy resource with a low or negative net energy ratio cannot compete in the open marketplace with other energy alternatives with higher net energy ratios unless it receives financial support from the government (taxpayers) or other outside sources of funding. • For example, the low net energy yield for the nuclear power fuel cycle is one reason why many governments throughout the world must heavily support nuclear power financially to make it available to consumers at an affordable price.

  10. Fossil fuels supply most of our commercial energy • The direct input of solar energy produces several other forms of renewable energy resources that: wind, flowing water, and biomass. • Most commercial energy comes from extracting and burning nonrenewable energy resources obtained from the earth’s crust. • 87% from carbon-containing fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal). • 6% from nuclear power. • 8% from renewable energy resources—biomass, hydropower, geothermal, wind, and solar energy.

  11. Energy use by source throughout the world and US in 2009

  12. Nonrenewable resources

  13. Petroleum

  14. Natural Gas

  15. Use of fracking to extract natural gas is controversial • Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps water mixed with sand and some toxic chemicals underground to fracture deep rock and free up natural gas stored there. • The gas flows out, along with a toxic slurry of water, salts, toxic heavy metals, and naturally occurring radioactive materials that is stored in tanks and holding ponds. • Drillers maintain that fracking is necessary for exploiting this reserve at a reasonably low cost, and they argue that no groundwater contamination directly due to fracking has ever been recorded.

  16. Coal has advantages and disadvantages

  17. Oil Shale and Tar Sands

  18. Keystone Pipeline

  19. Keystone Pipeline • Jobs? • Environment?

  20. Nuclear power cycle to produce energy has advantages and disadvantages

  21. Chernobyl • April 26 1986 • extensive parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America • Nearly thirty to forty times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Direct Deaths: 56

  22. Three Mile Island • March 28 1979 • partial core meltdown in Unit 2 of the nuclear power plant • release of a significant amount of radioactivity, an estimated 43,000 curies of radioactive krypton (1.59 PBq), but under 20 curies (740 GBq) of the particularly hazardous iodine-131, to the environment. • no deaths or injuries

  23. Hershey

  24. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant • March 11, 2011 • Triggered by 8.9 earthquake • Evacuation of 6 mile area at first • U.S urged 50 mile area

  25. renewable resources

  26. We waste huge amounts of energy • Energy efficiency is the measure of how much work we can get from each unit of energy we use. • Roughly 84% of all commercial energy used in the U.S. is wasted. • About 41% of this energy is unavoidably lost because of the degradation of energy quality imposed by the second law of thermodynamics. • The other 43% is wasted unnecessarily, mostly due to the inefficiency of incandescent light bulbs, industrial motors, most motor vehicles, coal and nuclear power plants, and numerous other energy-consuming devices. • Poorly insulation and building design also contribute.

  27. Benefits of reducing energy waste

  28. You can takes steps to save energy and money

  29. Homes can be heated with passive or active solar systems

  30. Heating a house with passive or active solar energy systems has advantages and disadvantages

  31. Using solar energy to generate high-temperature heat and electricity has advantages and disadvantages

  32. Using solar cells has advantages and disadvantages

  33. Large-scale hydropower has advantages and disadvantages

  34. Wind power has advantages and disadvantages

  35. Solid biomass has advantages and disadvantages

  36. Advantages and disadvantages of liquid biofuels

  37. Using geothermal energy has advantages and disadvantages

  38. Using hydrogen has advantages and disadvantages

  39. Section 13-6 How can we make the transition to a more sustainable energy future?

  40. Choosing energy paths • Energy policies need to consider the future. • Usually takes at least 50 years and huge investments to phase in new energy alternatives. • Creating energy policy involves trying to answer the following questions for each alternative: • How much of the energy resource is likely to be available in the near future (the next 25 years) and in the long term (the next 50 years)? • What is the estimated net energy yield (p. 000) for the resource? • What are the estimated costs for developing, phasing in, and using the resource?

  41. Suggestions for transitioning to a more sustainable future

  42. Economics, politics, and education can help us shift to more sustainable energy resources • Governments can use three strategies to help stimulate or reduce the short-term and long-term use of a particular energy resource. • Keep the prices of selected energy resources artificially low to encourage their use. • Keep the prices of selected energy resources artificially high to discourage their use. • Governments can emphasize consumer education.

  43. Three big ideas • We should evaluate energy resources on the basis of their potential supplies, how much net energy they provide, and the environmental impacts of using them. • Using a mix of renewable energy sources—especially solar, wind, flowing water, sustainable biofuels, and geothermal energy—can drastically reduce pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity losses. • Making the transition to a more sustainable energy future will require sharply reducing energy waste, using a mix of environmentally friendly renewable energy resources, and including the harmful environmental costs of energy resources in their market prices.

  44. Principles P 78 # 7 P 118 # 4 P 122 # 11 P 124 # 12 P 80 # 10 P 106 # 17 P 110 # 23

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