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Entries from March 2006

sea otter case study

March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

Part 1
possible causes
*sea otters spend 48 percent of the daylight hours grooming and cleaning their fur. This is the reason oil spills are so dangerous to sea otters. The oil coats the guard hairs and, since oil cannot be easily removed, the underfur becomes wet, loosing its insulative qualities, and the animal dies of hypothermia.
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ch19 web ex.

March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

1.7835..7
3.the signicifacen is that they are the same.
4.Alaska
5.because this is where the reasources are found and priduced where they can efficently be shipped out too because it is by ports.
6.They were higher.The prices went up so people would foucs on other alternatives.
7.Noirth america, cenertal and south america, western eurpoe, eastern eurpoe, candaa.
8.3rd
9.15%
10.86%
12.40%
13.80%
14.saudi arebia
15.35%
16.30%
17.That people in [...]

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ch 20 ?’s

March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

Use incandescent light bulbs, lower use of fuel used in homes, turn off lights when you leave the room, don’t leave water running, don’t do wash everyday.
Net energy yield-from energy conservation devices is based on the total useful energy produced during the lifetime of an entire energy system minus the energy.
Passive has no moving parts, [...]

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ch 20 notes

March 28th, 2006 · Comments Off

-greater reliacne on renewable resources and effeicnt use can reduce our depencenc on fossil fuels
- use less, conserve through greater effienceys lighting, space, water heating, etc.
-traporstion biggest energy use. reduce CO3 save oil. hybrid high effiecy rates low emmsions
- solar energy, active collects and stores, photovolatics cells convert sunlight to electricy
preices come down dramactically, rooftop [...]

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ch 20 voacb

March 28th, 2006 · Comments Off

1. hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles- high effucuency rating and lowest emmissions in u.s
2. net energy yield-based on the total useful energy produced during the lifetime of an entire system minus the energy required to make useful energy availbable.
3.cogeneration-the simultaneous production of both electricy abd steam or hot water in the same plant.
4.passive solar absorption-using materials or [...]

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ch 19 ?’s

March 26th, 2006 · Comments Off

Energy is capacity to do work. Power is rate of doing work.

  

Fossil fuels, petroleum, coal, and natural gas. Because it shows biomass because the fuels are gathered by the people who use them.

  

In the U.S. a person consumes on average almost in a single day as a person on a foreign poor country does in [...]

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ch 19 notes

March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off

-energy (capasity to do work)
-Power (rate of doing work)
black out of 03 reminds how depend on energy
-86% of all commerical energy is generated by fossil fuels
-40% petroleum
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ch 19 voacb

March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off

1. work- the application of force through a distence.
2. energy- the capacity to do work.
3. power the rate of energy flow or the rate at which work is done.
4. joule- the amount of work done when a force of 1 newton is exherted iver 1 meter or 1 amp per second flow s through 1 [...]

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Ch16 web exercise

March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

1.the closest pollution source to my home is probablly syracuse. Yes The use of vehicales yes because i live in a small town.
2. 287 days. the pollution type would be emissions from cars and buses and bulidings. people coiuld car pool so there would be less emmission, also people could take a bus, walk or [...]

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ch 18 notes

March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

-in indusltaizied countires water pollution laws have reduced it
-in developing countires pollution is getting worse but safe drinking water is imporving
-water pollution, any phsyical bioligial or chem change in water qulaity
-classified: point source, not point source
-major types: [...]

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