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Time for an energy boost!. Please get out objectives #16 and 17 for a stamp. Also, please have your ANWR summary out for a stamp. RTB!. Quiz reflection/objective check. #7. Nonrenewable – longer than a human lifetime to form.
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Time for an energy boost! • Please get out objectives #16 and 17 for a stamp. • Also, please have your ANWR summary out for a stamp. • RTB!
#7 • Nonrenewable – longer than a human lifetime to form. • Fossil Fuels are nonrenewable because they take millions of years to form. • (If we use trees faster than they are growing, they are still a renewable resource)
#8 Because fossil fuels contain hydrocarbons with lots of bonds • NUMBER OF BONDS (not the length or the strength of bonds)
Check your ANWR summary • Compare with your neighbor and highlight similar concepts. • Make sure you have the big ideas: • Where • Issue being debated • Parties/groups involved
National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska • Technically recoverable, undiscovered oil - 9.3 billion barrels. • An estimated 1.3 to 5.6 billion barrels of those technically recoverable oil resources is economically recoverable at market prices of $22 to $30 per barrel. • Technically recoverable, natural gas for the same area - 59.7 trillion cubic feet. - USGS, 2002
Rank the arguments • For your given position, • Write one argument to support your side on each board. • Put them in order from strongest argument to weakest. • Be ready to defend your choices.
A proposition: • We NEED energy. The FORM of energy and the FUELS we use to create convenient energy are a matter of choice.
Evaluating energy sources should include net energy • Net energy is the energy provided by the resource (fuel) minus the energy required to produce the fuel.
The limitations (or opportunities) of physics • Thermodynamics #1 – energy is neither created or destroyed, it just changes form. • Thermodynamics #2 – every time energy changes form, some is lost to the surrounding environment; energy generally becomes less organized as it changes form. • Potential Energy • Position • Chemical bonds • Kinetic Energy • Heat (molecules) • Light (photons) • Motion/mechanical • Electrical (electrons)
Unconventional fuels have lower net energy (tar sands and oil shales)
Tar sands extraction • Mining • Steam injection • Refining • Requires significantly more energy than petroleum extraction
A proposition: • We NEED energy. The FORM of energy and the FUELS we use to create convenient energy are a matter of choice.