3-4: Energy Consumption and Conservation

Pre-Class Preparation

Objectives

• To review energy consumption patterns and opportunities for energy conservation.
• To evaluate the options for use of alternatives to fossil fuels in supplying global energy demand.

Procedure

1. Read the learning unit.

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2. Take the learning unit quiz. Quizzes are available from your portfolio. You may access your portfolio via the list of students participating in this year's course, as represented by the icon below.
   
   
3. Additional Required Reading. Although you are not ultimately responsible for content listed in this section, we encourage you to fully explore the links in order to provide a better scope on the upcoming class discussion.

   	Energy and greenhouse gas emissions. (From UNEP.)
   	Global energy use during the Industrial Age. (From the UNEP.)

Class Discussion

• Problem to ponder...
  

• Class Discussion Summary:

Post-Class Activities

• Participate in the electronic dialog. Use this forum for:
  • continuing class discussion;
  • posing new questions to students or the instructor;
  • responding to issues/questions raised by students in class/electronic dialog.

  Visitor Access (Visitors are welcome to participate in the dialog. Just click on the icon below)	Student Access (Students must post all dialog from their portfolio. Click on the icon below to access the student list.)

• Recommended Reading Materials

  	China's population growth and it's economic boom.
  	Energy issues in Iowa.
  	How extracting and transporting fossil fuel releases greenhouse gases (From UNEP.)
  	Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector (From UNEP.)

• References

  	Romm, Joseph, J., and Charles B. Curtis, 1996: Mideast Oil Forever? Atlantic Monthly, 57-74.
  	Rothstein, J., 1993: Hydrogen and Fossil Fuels. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 20(4), 283-286.
  	Soclow, R., C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas, eds. 1994: Industrial Ecology and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, 500 pp.