Zusammenfassung der Ressource
AP Environmental Science
- Energy Resources and Consumption
- Energy Concepts
- Energy Forms
- Renewable
- Renewable energy is
energy that comes
from sources that can
be replenished in a
human lifetime
- Non-Renewable
- Nonrenewable energy
is energy that comes
from resources that
can not be replenished
in a human life time
- Power
- Power is electricity
created either
through the
consumption of
renewable or
nonrenewable
resources
- Laws of
Thermodynamics
- The first law is that
energy can not be created
nor destroyed
- The second law of
thermodynamics is that we
end up with less useable
energy than we started with
- Energy Consumption
- Industrial revolution
caused a large, rapid
increase in
energyconsumption
- With the rise of
consumerism
energy production
and consumption
has increased
- Fossil Fuel Resources and Use
- Coal and oil are nonrenewable resources
that is formed from fossils under pressure
for millions of years