Environmental Ecology- Energy
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| Natural Gas | 21%- offshore drilling
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| Fracking | Land-based process to get the oil out of the ground by explosions to pump out slurry
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| Problems with Fracking | 1. Pollution of groundwater (aquifer)
2. Holding tanks leaking
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| Coal | World's most abundant fossil fuel. Produces 40% of world's electricity.
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| 1/3 | ... of all human activity comes from coal burning (greenhouse effect)
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| China | Largest producer of coal
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| Montana | US Coal Reserves. Largest underground supply
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| Synthetic Fuels | 1. Coal Gasification convertes to synthetic natural gas
2. Coal Liquification coverts to liquid fuel (methanol)
3. "Clean coal technique"
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| Uranium | Fuel for Nuclear Energy process
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| Nuclear Energy Process | Uranium----> fission process----> split neutrons---> heat
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| 3-4 Years | ... Replace control rods, put in cooling tanks (radioactive water), transported to dry storage
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| Half-life | Amount of time it takes the substance to lose half it's radioactivity. (10,000-240,000 years). Very costly, reacted life 15-60 years.
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| Nuclear Energy | ...Produces no CO2
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| 443 | ...Nuclear plants worldwide & in 30 Countries
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| 16% | ....World's electricity
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| 1978 | No new nuclear plants in US since that date.
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| Major Concerns of Nuclear Energy | 1. Very costly
2. Safety issues- potential meltdown
3. Environmental & Safety regulations
4. Terrorist activity
5. Earthquakes & Tsunami
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| Modern Disasters | 1. 1979- US (PA) Three Mile Island
2. 1986- Russia
3. 2011- Japan
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| 1986 Chernoby | Occurred in Northern Russia (Ukraine)- full meltdown.
25,000-60,000 people died. 350,000 had to leave their homes.
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| Nuclear Fusion | Fuse two H+ isotopes----> heavy nucleus ----> heat release
Environmentally sound- no potential for meltdown
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