Sustainable Energy
- Created by: Jake Robertson
- Created on: 13-05-13 19:39
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- Sustainable Energy
- Features of energy sustainability
- Meets the needs of now without comprimising the needs of the future
- Security of supply
- Minimises environmental and social impacts
- Affordable for customers and industry
- Safe
- Increasing supply
- Finding more fossil fuels
- Cheaper
- Resources are finite
- Problems with emissions
- Turn to alternative methods, e.g fossil suels
- Won't run out
- High cost
- Don't currently provide enough energy
- Physical limitations
- Nuclear
- Ver efficient
- Abundance of uranium
- Nuclear waste issue
- Dangerous
- Government support
- Tax breaks for companies to invest in renewables
- Subsidies for energy companies
- Targets-20% by 2020 in EU
- Finding more fossil fuels
- Reducing demand
- Technology
- Energy efficient consumables
- Fuel efficient cars
- Efficient architecture, e.g insulated homes, double glazing
- Individuals
- Environmental idealism
- Switching off lights
- Use public transport
- Purchase local food
- Governments
- Investment in public transport
- Incentives, e.g lower road tax for greener cars
- Building regulations
- The Green Deal-Loans for home imporvements
- Technology
- Thorium
- Abundant mineral (occuring in 90% of rocks)
- Can produce 90x more energy than uranium
- Very little waste
- Thorium reactors are much safer, and more stable
- Molten salt reactor
- US investigations abandoned in 60/70s
- California
- Introduced legislation
- Reduce energy consumption
- Increase the efficient use of energy
- Expands renewable energy resources
- Cut GHG emissions
- Forces car manufacturers to use cleaner technologies
- Target for non-pertoleum fuels to take 30% of market by 2030
- Energy companies are charged $8 per tonne of Co2 they produce
- Energy efficiency programs save 11m tonnes of CO2 per year
- 31% of electricity came from renewable sources in 2006
- Targetnof 1/3 of electricity to be produced from renewables by 2020
- 25 geothermal resource areas, accounting by 40% of global geothermal
- 14000 wind turbines
- 9 solar panel stations in Mojave Desert
- 16% of electricity generated by HEP
- Introduced legislation
- Features of energy sustainability
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