Nancy asks…
energy resource plan….?
You are a board member of your homeowner’s association (HOA). At your next meeting, your goal is to educate other homeowners about energy conservation. The HOA board is looking to you to help homeowners to conserve more energy.
•Review the following Energy Resource Plan outline:
oIntroduction
Provide information about why conserving energy is important.
oRenewable versus nonrenewable
Briefly distinguish between these types of energy.
oMethods to conserve and help the environment
What may each member do, personally, to conserve energy and help the environment at the same time?
Provide at least three methods.
oGovernment efforts
How may the government be involved in conservation efforts?
oConclusion
Wrap up the meeting with a brief summary of your main points.
Provide some motivation for conserving energy with a memorable slogan, statement, or song, for example.
The Expert answers:
I’d start by contacting the local electric provider or by going to your state’s government website for power. They have an immense amount of information covering most of the topics you’ve requested information on.
Betty asks…
Does anyone have any suggestions for an energy resource plan?
. Assignment: Energy Resource Plan
You are a board member of your Home Owner’s Association. At your next meeting, your goal is to educate other homeowners about energy conservation.
· Review the following Energy Resource Plan outline:
o Introduction:
§ Provide information about why conserving energy is important.
o Renewable versus Nonrenewable
 Briefly distinguish between these two types of energy.
o Methods to conserve and help the environment
 What can each member do, personally, to conserve energy and help the environment at the same time?
 Provide at least three methods.
o Government efforts
 How can the government be involved in conservation efforts?
o Conclusion
 Wrap up the meeting with a brief summary of your main points.
 Provide some motivation for conserving energy with a memorable slogan, statement, or song, for example.
· Conduct either Option 1 or Option 2.
1. Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint® that includes all of the elements in the Energy Resource Plan outline. Include speaker notes as appropriate.
2. Write a 350- to 700-word paper that includes all elements of the Energy Resource Plan outline.
· Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
· Post your paper as an attachment no later then 11:59 MST Sunday in your Individual Forum.
The Expert answers:
ASK THEM INSTEAD TO HELP REDUCE POPULATION GROWTH.
Steven asks…
please help this is science homework help please asap but i can also wait?
i forgot my science book at school and this is over a movie that we watched in class Friday but she said that we couldn’t write it down during the movie so im kinda stuck. please help!
here are the questions:
how can potential and kinetic energy different from each other?
what are the 7 main forms of energy?
i already got: hydroelectric, Solar power, and natural gas.
give some examples of nonrenewable resources.
i already have: coal
provide some examples of renewable resources.
i will post some more added to this in a few minutes so please watch. thank you soo much!!
what are some problems associated with burning fossil fuels?
why are nonrenewable resores also called fossil fuels? how are they formed?
why is the conservation of energy so important?
what are some things people can do to conserve energy?
thnxx again!!!
The Expert answers:
THEY ARE DIFFERENT BECAUse potential is what it CAN do
kinetic is what it Does
a nonrenewable resource is water air( i think )
a renewable resource is…….im sorry i cant think of anything look it up on google
Carol asks…
Will “Big Oil” allow a quick switch to alternative energy ?
If you made billions each year from people buying your product what incentive do you have to allow anyone to provide a viable alternative to your product before you have depleted your current stockpile ?
With the new breakthroughs in renewable energy and the current “Energy Crisis” you would think that the world super powers would be pushing us more in to renewable energy instead of simply hiking the price of the current resource because of “Green Issues”.
I personally think that they already have a “Plan B” for the oil running dry but they wont do anything about it until they milk every last penny out of the current dirty resources which are easily taxed and regulated.
The US government, for example, recently decided to put all solar projects on hold for around two years while they “Had a think about it” but there was such an outcry they were forced to do a u-turn. Why would anyone spend two years having a ponder over an alternative as sustainable as the sun when the oil supplies are as critically low as the elites claim they are ?
Do you think that the people who rule the world and line their pockets with our hard earned cash will allow their cash cows (oil, gas, coal) to be replaced with something that they can’t levy a simple tax on until they have no option ?
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@ “Mark in Time”
The elite are rich because they keep the people poor and that’s an indisputable fact.
The divide between the two can never be closed as the more the poor people become rich the poorer rich people become.
Your quote is an interesting one but I think I read it differently to you.
Money is neither good nor evil, it is food for our greed and that food is given to us by those who will never go hungry, they give us just enough to stop our bellies from rumbling.
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@ “yankee_sailor”
” the US government put a hold on solar projects? ”
Yes, they did :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/27/easolar127.xml
And they had to change their mind :
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/04/us-puts-the-freeze-on-solar-energy-projects/
Before you say there’s no conspiracy perhaps you should bring yourself up to speed on things that actually make it in to the media.
The Expert answers:
Big Oil (like the Big Three) are sitting on a vast warehouse of alternative fuels and alternative engines, but what they’ve been lacking is the impetus to dust these things off and put them to use. But that impetus has finally arrived in three distinct forms; three extremely (for them) terrifying forms: high oil prices per barrel; Peak Oil from the Arabian oil fields; Green consciousness.
High oil price per barrel is not something that is going to go away any time soon. The causes are myriad, but one of the factors is the sense of crisis in the Middle East. The Iraqi-American war is tertiary to that; what is really causing panic in the Arabian oil fields is the knowledge that the fields have reached Peak Performance.
Peak Oil refers to the theory that all oil fields will move in a course which roughly describes a hill–it goes up, reaches the plateau (or peak) and then descends. This concept was originally postulated by a Geologist named M. King Hubbert. He said that Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. He predicted that the USA would reach peak production and begin decline in 1970. He was right. Peak Oil production in the Arabian oil fields has apparently been reached, and now begins their decline as well.
But it is Green consciousness which really worries the oil and car people. Once upon a time, the concerns about the environment were tossed aside as the bleatings of “Ecology Nuts”, but in the light of Global Warming and rising greenhouse gases (and skyrocketing oil prices) the idea of a car that gets 50-60 miles a gallon are very tempting. Already, old SUV’s are being called ‘dinosaurs’, and new ones are gathering dust in showrooms all over the world.
You ask, “Do you think that the people who rule the world and line their pockets with our hard earned cash will allow their cash cows (oil, gas, coal) to be replaced with something that they can’t levy a simple tax on until they have no option ?”
Actually that’s the least of their worries. Sheer survival is taking precedence over simple greed.
For the Saudis, for example, they must now put away their toys and deal with the fact that for seventy years they have built their entire culture based on oil, a finite resource. They have bought jets, built palaces, taken long and expensive vacations, but they have virtually no infrastructure! They cannot feed their own people with their land, which is still desert. Virtually all necessities are imported. They have made investments, yes, but nothing which will prop up their country once the oil is depleted! This is one of the factors which is driving oil prices up: they have to make up for lost time and build these things now.
For the Big Three, time is also a precious commodity. As little as three years ago, there was a board meeting at GM in which one member put forth the idea of bringing back the Volt, GM’s electric car. His suggestion was shouted down, and the decision was made to concentrate on SUV’s instead. Now, GM is working overtime to bring back the Volt, and literally spending one billion dollars a month (!) to incorporate hybrid technology into their current manufacturing centers in order to stay alive. If GM (and other US manufacturers) wish to survive, they need to adapt.
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet slammed into the Yucatan peninsula and brought about a worldwide climate change. Within a few short years the entire world was changed, and the lumbering dinosaurs which had ruled for so long died out. In a like fashion, the current climate change and the disappearance of the dinosaur remains (fossil fuels) are necessitating another change in the evolution of transport and the way humans behave. Those who adapt will go on; those who refuse to change will perish. Such is the way of the world.
Perhaps evolution is the biggest conspiracy of all.
Richard asks…
Is paper recycling really a waste of time and energy?
My husband claims that recycling paper is pointless… My good friend says he is ignorant and I should not listen to him. I am not sure who to believe. I AM currently leaning toward my husband because at least he gave me some points that sound good. My friend’s only “point” is that my husband is ignorant. I am hoping for some more facts to support both sides of this argument so I can form a more educated opinion on the matter.
This is what he says: The work that goes into recycling the stuff causes more pollution than if we put it in the landfill… since it is 100% biodegradable and 100% renewable… Replanting trees causes no pollution. He says the only things we need bother recycle are things that are non-renuable resources that are not biodegradable… Like plastics for example. Using and disposing of paper is not depleting rainforests, because the countries that are doing that are not using the trees to make paper for us – that it is done for reasons such as creating more farm-land. All the paper we use here is from trees that are grown and replanted…
The Expert answers:
Your husband is neglecting a few critical points.
1) It takes a long time for trees to grow. The more paper we recycle, the fewer trees need to be cut down to make new paper, and this gives newly planted trees more time to grow and replace the cut down trees.
2) Making new paper from recycled paper uses 30-50% less energy than making paper from trees and it reduces contributions to air pollution by 95%.
Http://www.buyrecycled.com/questions.htm
So no, recycling paper is certainly not a waste of time and energy. In fact, it saves energy.
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