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Putting this all together

This video on TED.com by Shawn Achor delves into the interconnectedness of ecology, human population, evolution, and energy, emphasizing how our actions impact the environment. It covers crucial topics like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, renewables, electricity generation methods, and sustainability principles. Learn about peak oil, renewable energy sources, and how to reduce, reuse, and recycle for a greener future.

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Putting this all together

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  1. Putting this all together Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED.com Energy Review 2014

  2. Everything is connected to everything else • Ecology • Human Population • Evolution/Sexual Selection • Energy • Everything you do has an effect on the environment – the good news is . . . (It’s the economy, stupid.) • All these subjects come together as we begin to finish the “academic” part of our year

  3. Need to Know for the Test: • Fossil Fuels • 150+ years of coal, 50+ years oil, natural gas • Peak Oil, (coal, natural gas) • Our lifestyle depends on cheap and plentiful fossil fuels – high energy = high quality of life. In the U.S. (5% of the world’s population) we consume 20-30% of the world’s energy • Nuclear Fuel (know: fission vs. fusion) • What are we going to do with the waste? • We want to store the waste in Yucca Mountain? • Renewables • What is the negative part of each one • solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, water

  4. Need to Know Continued: • Electricity: • KCP&L • 75% Coal • 20% Nuclear • 4% Oil • 1% Wind How do we make electricity? -most (99%) of the time the electrons are powered by heating water, the pressurized steam of the boiling water turns a turbine (making something spin is the key to creating electricity) which turns a generator. The generator then motivates electrons to move.

  5. Need to know continued: • Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth • Fracking – what is it? Pros and Cons • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle • What is peak oil? • “The Oil We Eat” • Earthship • How can you make electricity? • Energy Basics • First law of thermodynamics • Energy is the ability to do work • Work is applying a force over a distance

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