We can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders nor can we consume the wor

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Special Topics on Energy Literacy Lesson 101

• We can no longer afford indifference to the
  suffering outside our borders nor can we consume
  the world's resources without regard to effect.
  For the world has changed, and we must change
  with it.
• Barack Obama

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Outline

• Barack Obamas Challenge New Energy
• Global Warming- An Inconvenient Truth
• Movie Clips (2006)
• Thomas Friedmans Hot, Flat and Crowded
• Video Clips (2008)
• Energy related Terms A to Z
• Reading Globalization Energy

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• Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching
  network of violence and hatred. Our economy is
  badly weakened, a consequence of greed and
  irresponsibility on the part of some, but also
  our collective failure to make hard choices and
  prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been
  lost jobs shed businesses shuttered. Our health
  care is too costly our schools fail too many
  and each day brings further evidence that the
  ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and
  threaten our planet.
• (From Barack Obamas
  Inaugural Address)

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Barack Obamas Challenge New Energy
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Steven Chu (???)

• Earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of
  California, Berkeley, where he also taught as a
  professor.
• Was chair of the Stanford University physics
  department and head of a research facility at
  Bell Labs.
• was known for his research in cooling and
  trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him
  the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.
• Is the Energy Secretary in President Barack
  Obama's administration
• Has been a strong advocate of biofuels and solar
  energy research.

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Obamas Energy Secretary

• Chu, a firm believer in the dangers of climate
  change, will try to fulfill Obama's promise to
  create millions of green collar jobs, develop
  alternative energy options and make the nation
  more energy independent.

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Whats Wrong with these Polar Bears?
Global Warming or Global Warning!!!
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What do you think about the picture?
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An Inconvenient Truth

• An Inconvenient Truth is an American
  documentary film about global warming directed by
  Davis Guggenheim, presented by former United
  States Vice President Al Gore.

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Now, lets take a look at what Al Gore said!
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What can we do to reduce the emission of carbon
dioxide?
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Thomas Friedmans Hot, Flat and Crowded
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• Now, lets take a look at what Thomas Friedman
  said!

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Time Magazine, Jan 26, 2009
The New Alchemy As criticism of corn based on
ethanol grows, companies are at work on the next
generation of biofuels
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Energy Terms A to Z

• Atmosphere
• The area in which all air exists this sphere
  contains all of the gases that surround the
  earth.
• BiodiversityA property of ecosystems related to
  the number of different plant and animal species
  they contain.
• Biodiesel
• Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning
  alternative fuel, produced from domestic,
  renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no
  petroleum, but it can be blended at any level
  with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel
  blend. It can be used in compression-ignition
  (diesel) engines with little or no modifications.
  Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, and
  nontoxic.

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Biosphere
• The area in which all living things exist this
  sphere includes all of the microorganisms, plants
  and animals of Earth, even humans.
• Carbon Footprint
• A carbon footprint is the total set of GHG
  (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and
  indirectly by an individual, organization, event
  or product (UK Carbon Trust 2008). An
  individual, nation or organization's carbon
  footprint is measured by undertaking a GHG
  emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon
  footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to
  reduce it.

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Carbon Neutral
• Being carbon neutral, or having a zero carbon
  footprint, refers to achieving net zero carbon
  emissions by balancing a measured amount of
  carbon released with an equivalent amount
  sequestered or offset. It can also refer to the
  practice of balancing carbon dioxide released
  into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels,
  with renewable energy that creates a similar
  amount of useful energy, so that the carbon
  emissions are compensated, or alternatively using
  only renewable energies that don't produce any
  carbon dioxide (this last is called a post-carbon
  economy).
• Carbon negative
• Carbon negative is any process that removes
  carbon, in any form, from the atmosphere,
  hydrosphere and biosphere in such a way that it
  cannot return. Carbon negative processes are the
  opposite of carbon positive processes.

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Deforestation
• The removal of trees from a previously pristine
  area, generally by logging to obtain lumber
  products.
• Emission
• Substance that is released or discharged, usually
  into the air emit (verb).
• Fossil fuels
• Deposits of organic matter that have been altered
  over geologic time (since the Earths formation)
  and can be burned for energy for example, coal,
  crude oil and natural gas.

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Greenhouse gases
• Gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide,
  nitrous oxide and methane that are relatively
  transparent to the short wavelength solar
  radiation that emanates from the sun but that are
  fairly opaque to the longer wavelength thermal
  radiation that emanates from the surface of a
  planet.
• Hurricane
• A tropical cyclone with winds in excess of 64
  knots (74 mph).

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Iceberg Melting
• Kyoto Protocol
• The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, is a
  protocol to the United Nations Framework
  Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an
  international environmental treaty produced at
  the Earth Summit. Its objective is to achieve
  "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations
  in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent
  dangerous anthropogenic interference with the
  climate system."

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Kyoto Protocol
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Energy Terms A to Z

• Photosynthesis
• The process by which plants use sunlight, water
  and carbon dioxide to produce their food.
• Precipitation
• The movement of liquid or solid water (rain,
  sleet, snow, etc.) from the atmosphere to the
  Earths surface precipitate (verb).
• Renewable energy
• Renewable energy is energy generated from natural
  resourcessuch as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and
  geothermal heatwhich are renewable (naturally
  replenished).

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Energy Terms A to Z

• Sea Level Rise
• The sea level has been rising at a rate of around
  1.8 mm per year for the past century, mainly as a
  result of human-induced global warming. This rate
  is increasing measurements from the period
  19932003 indicated a mean rate of 3.1 mm/year.
  Global warming will continue to increase sea
  level over at least the coming century.
• Solar Energy solar panels?
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable development is a pattern of resource
  use that aims to meet human needs while
  preserving the environment so that these needs
  can be met not only in the present, but in the
  indefinite future.

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Globalization Energy

• Consider China's rapidly growing export economy.
  Much has been written about the environmental
  consequences of shifting manufacturing from the
  US to China, where rules are more lax. The energy
  impact of this shift is also significant, because
  China's consumption of energy per unit of GDP is
  a multiple of that in Western Europe or North
  America, and will remain so even after planned
  efficiency improvements.

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Globalization Energy

• In 2004 the US economy was four times more energy
  efficient than China's, when compared on the
  market-exchange-rate basis appropriate for trade.
  Even after allowing for differences in the two
  countries' economic mixes, manufacturing an item
  in China requires, on average, more energy than
  if it were made here, including the energy used
  in shipping it. That also has implications for
  the greenhouse gas emissions associated with
  manufacturing.

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Globalization Energy

• Further globalization will expand global energy
  demand and increase emissions of greenhouse gases
  more than would otherwise be the case. For all
  the benefits of globalization in moving people
  out of poverty, these side-effects are serious
  and, if left unchecked, will impose limits on the
  ultimate extent of globalization's spread.
• (By Geoffrey Styles, Managing Director of GSW
  Strategy Group, LLC, an energy and environmental
  strategy consulting firm.)