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- The more energy usage a person has, generally,
the better they are living. Also creates an extension
of life
-Energy protects us from a lot of things: refrigerator
and temperature control protecting us from harmful
pathogens
Explain how energy -Energy can also influence human health depending
influences human health on the types of energy. SUstainable energy
improves public health, reduces air/water pollutants
(cancer, asthma, mercury in fish), industrial
accidents, economic and health impacts of fossil
depletion, and climate change (heatwave deaths,
disease, crop loss). Fossil fuel burning can lead to
air pollution
Define ethical Some ethical considerations are that sustainable
considerations on what is development means living in a way that does not
meant by sustainable compromise the future generations ability to live
development
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- Petroleum: 37% mostly used for transportation
fuels, asphalt, plastics, etc.
- Natural Gas: 29% natural gas is mostly utilized for
electricity, agriculture (fertilizer), and building
Explain how each major heated w/ NG. Cyclical use in nature
energy source is used (winter>summer) Hydrofracking has made this
and their percent cheaper
contribution in the US - Coal: 14%has been shrinking and been replaced
energy mix - Nuclear: 9%
- Hydro: 3% (possibly shrinking due to droughts and
the fact that we have dammed most big rivers
already)
- Renewable: 8% (Biomass, Wind, Solar, Geothermal)
- Health impacts of fossil fuel on a local level
include decreased air quality and an increase of the
Using systems thinking to NAAQS 6 criteria air pollutants which can lead to
evaluate the health many pulmonary and cardiovascular issues
impacts of fossil fuel use - Globally: excessive fossil fuel usage is increasing
at the local and global the amount of carbon emissions and leading to
level climate change. As the health of the world
deteriorates, drought, wildfires, etc. are all leading
to decreased health of populations as a whole.
- What is it: Canadian Tar Sands (CTS): oily sand
scooped by trucks and boiled to separate oil
derivative from sand (water floats the oil to the top)
What are Canadian Tar - Health Implications: Climate change: causes
Sands? and what are the erosion and deforestation. Also, the soil is a living
health object full of microbes and nutrients, so after this
implications/infrastucture process, hard for things to grow in sand, stripped
changes? soil. Adds to carbon emissions and climate change
- Infrastructure Change: CTS is very hard to move,
so limited, would require a pipeline to effectively
export to other nations
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- How it works: blowing the top off a mountain in
order to go after coal
What is Mountaintop
- Health Implications: Mountain tops are usually
Removal and its health
acidic and have arsenic/ mercury accumulations.
implications?
When the mountain top is used to fill a valley, these
harmful compounds may enter the water supply
- How it works: Once a site has been identified, they
drill a mile below the surface past water aquifers,
steel casting inserted, and cement is pumped
through and out the bottom between the casing.
This will serve as a barrier between the steel casing
and water. Drilling continues until the steel casing is
horizontal, and the collection of natural gas or oil
What is Hydraulic can begin with the use of perforating guns
Fracturing? What are the - Health Implications: takes a lot of diesel trucks that
health add air and noise pollution. Also produces methane
implications/infrastructur emissions and methane is an extremely strong
e changes? greenhouse gas (GHG). Additionally, flow back
water is salty, full of chemicals and radiological
waste, and is too dirty to put anywhere. Shale
industry 4.1 times more lethal than others
- Infrastructure Changes: needs to be moved by rail,
but is more explosive than conventional crude oil
(oil spills and explosions are on the rise with
unconventional oil)
Almost, all electricity production used by water is
Explain how water is used from boiling. We also use steam (water explosion)
in electricity production. through a turbine, and the steam turns a turbine and
creates electricity.
The benefits of renewable energy in both
developed and developing nations is that it is safer,
What are the benefits of
cleaner, and more abundant than fossil fuels. There
renewable energy in
are multiple forms of renewable energy that exist
developed and
(hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) This energy
developing nations?
source also allows countries to work towards
energy independence and will create more jobs
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