Factors affecting energy use
- Created by: Megan Cameron
- Created on: 06-02-13 09:33
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- Factors Affecting Energy Use Now and in the Future
- Affluence
- Energy consuming goods
- Travelling more
- Building houses
- Laws of supply and demand set energy prices
- Not being able to afford energy hinders social development
- Difficult to transport goods, pump water, preserve foods and drive equipment
- Relative cost of energy
- In some countries energy is cheap
- Locally abundant
- Easy to extract
- Not heavily taxed
- Energy conservation is low priority if energy is relatively cheap
- In some countries energy is cheap
- Level and Type of Industry
- Industrialised countries use lots of energy in processing and transporting goods
- Energy used in construction, heating and lighting of buildings and in manufacture of machinery
- Heavy primary industries that extract and chemically process materials use most energy
- Aluminium is a very energy-expensive metal to extract, requires electricity for electrolysis
- Nitrate fertiliser manufacture requires Haber process
- Social and Environmental Awareness
- Countries such as Denmark and Norway have always had problems with energy supplies so there is a cultural tradition to use energy resources carefully
- In the UK, abundant coal helped with the development of a society that started the industrial revolution, but also uses energy wastefully
- Climate
- Buildings in areas with cold winters need more heating while those in very hot areas require cooling
- Good building design can minimise the amount of energy that is needed
- Windy weather increases heat losses, whereas sunny weather increases passive solar heat gains
- Buildings in areas with cold winters need more heating while those in very hot areas require cooling
- Affluence
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