Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
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- Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
- Carbon Pump
- Biological- phytoplankton in the ocean sequester carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, from atmospheric to ocean store
- Biogeochemical- the whole of the carbon cycle including geological and biological
- Carbon Sequestration
- Thermohaline Circulation
- Terrestrial Stores (land)
- Thermohaline Circulation
- Mangroves - Carbon Rich Soils, Anaerobic Processes, Respiration and Decomposition very slowly Carbon Stored for any years
- Tundra Soils - Permafrost, permanently frozen pockets of carbon
- Tropical Forests - Positive Feedback Loss of trees, less rainfall, fires, fewer rain-forests
- The Natural Greenhouse Effect - natural process by which the earths temp is maintained
- The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect - the increase in atmospheric CO2 has increased global temp
- Radiative Forcing Effect (RFE) - The capacity of a gas to affect the energy balance its ability to absorb and retain heat
- Primary Productivity - the rate at which plants produce biomass
- Greeh House Gases (GHG)% produced
- Nitrous Oxide - 3%
- Halocarbons - 1%
- Methane - 7%
- Carbon Dioxide - 89%
- Water Vapour - negligible
- Carbon Dioxide - 89%
- Methane - 7%
- Halocarbons - 1%
- Nitrous Oxide - 3%
- Energy Security, affordable sources of energy.
- Primary- Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
- Secondary - Electricity
- Primary- Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
- London 1.8 tonnes f carbon per capita per year
- Peru - villages have solar powers, 500,000 people have energy
- Norway - uses HEP and exports Natural Gas much more energy secure than the UK. want to be carbon neutral by 2050
- Energy Pathways, Pipelines, shipping routes, transmission lines, roads and rail
- Prone to Disruption
- Unconventional Fossil Fules
- Tar Sands, Deep Water Oil, Shale Gas, Oil Shale
- Hinkley Point C Nuclear Changing Energy Mix
- Biofuel
- Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- Biofuel
- Climate Change- ocean acidification, Coral Reefs
- Carbon Pump
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