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Everyone Poops

Everyone Poops. What is this Energy Conversion All About?. BUY YOUR READING PACKET. Let’s Stop the Myth. Plug-in cars are NOT carbon/emissions free. Where does the electricity come from? Coal? Possibly better. The TED team. Carbon sequestration

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Everyone Poops

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  1. Everyone Poops What is this Energy Conversion All About?

  2. BUY YOUR READING PACKET

  3. Let’s Stop the Myth • Plug-in cars are NOT carbon/emissions free. • Where does the electricity come from? • Coal? • Possibly better

  4. The TED team • Carbon sequestration • Pump carbon dioxide into the ground into old mines. • Pump it into the ocean • Norgaard: No large experiments • Time scale • Size

  5. A Fun Chapter to Write • Have fun reading it • Organizing energy into useful work • Jacobs Conduit Model • Capture, use and reuse and recycle before it is lost • The relationship between energy and matter

  6. Jacobs’ Conduit The Conduit Imports Raw Materials Use, reuse, recycle Stretching Tinkering Waste Outputs Inputs Exports Energy

  7. Economics Is All About • Costs • Relative Prices • Profits • Full Pricing

  8. Consider the Basics of Humans • Humans eat food and convert some of the energy into mechanical work • Roughly 20% of the intake can become mechanical work • Thus, each Kcal of work must generate 5Kcal of food energy • Less produces a loss • More provides profit

  9. New Guinea • Agriculture provides 15Kcal for each expended Kcal • Sweet potato, taro, cassava, yam and banana • Yeah, sing and dance time • AZ Watermelons • It takes 2049 Kcal to produce 37 Kcal of watermelons! • 11 gallons of water as well

  10. I Was Most Surprised • You were asked to spend the long weekend being energy aware • On a piece of paper write out a comment: • I was most surprised that I converted energy when I ________________. • 3 minutes

  11. Team One • How did we get into this mess? • Understanding the current energy matrix • Oil • Coal • Nukes • Wood gathering • These markets are the foundation of the modern global economy and will continue to serve this function for at least the next few decades

  12. Team Two • Adaptation • Health • Food, Fiber and Forest Products • Pick some topics • http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm

  13. Team Three • Mitigation • Housing and Buildings • Transportation • Pick some topics • http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.htm

  14. Pick a Corner • Team One: Back Left • Team Two: Front Right • Team Three: Middle Right • Whose left and right?

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