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MME 9617a
Eric Savory
www.eng.uwo.ca/people/esavory/mme9617a.htm
Lecture 1 - Introduction
Assignments (30%)
Term research project report and
presentation (70%)
The Norfolk Broads
East Anglia, England
By the 12th century, much of East Norfolk had
been cleared of its woodland for fuel and
building materials
The first written evidence of peat digging for
fuel in the Broads also dates from this time
Wood
Electricity
Coal
Oil
Nuclear
Those are the main energy sources but what are they
used for ?
Transportation
Transportation
Energy Uses have changed …
Energy consumption in the USA (1775 – 1999)
World population growth
and energy demand
World population (1,000s)
?
Likely to peak at 10 - 16 bn
Are there limits?
* http://cohesion.rice.edu/
NaturalSciences/Smalley/emplibrary/
120204%20MRS%20Boston.pdf
Total primary power required
Energy For IPCC BAU scenario
sources
& demand
M I Hoffert et al,
Nature, 395,
881 – 4 (1998)
WRE = Wigley,
Richels and
Edmonds,
ppmv of CO2.
Pre - industrial
level is 350
ppmv
Energy questions
• Can we satisfactorily reduce emissions
and remediate wastes residing in our
water and air basins?
• Can we offset changes being introduced
by our consumption of fossil fuels?
• Can we significantly reduce our
dependence on imported oil?
• Can nuclear, renewable, and other non-
fossil energy resources be deployed
quickly enough to make a difference?
End use of energy forms
• Thermal
• Electrical
• Electromagnetic
• Chemical
– fuels for transportation
– fuels for industrial processes
• Electrochemical
• Mechanical ( KE or PE ) for power
Primary energy sources