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Name: Kedric Taylor
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Unit 5 Assignment Part 1:
Write a letter to city officials to discuss the potential for switching to Renewable Energy resources in your new city. Below, you will view the "Potential" maps for many types of renewable energy resources. Using these maps as a guide, discuss which types of renewable energy sources would be appropriate to research in your letter.
Then, do a quick search online to see what types of renewable energy resources are currently being used/researched in your chosen city. Discuss this in a short discussion below your letter.
Unit 5 Assignment Part 2:
1.
What are the major hurdles of building solar plants and other renewable energy resources?
The most significant and well-known obstacle to renewable energy adoption right now is cost. The costs associated with building and installing facilities like solar or wind farms. 2.
What is one solution to the energy transportation problem?
Dear City Officials of Florida, my name is Kedric Taylor, and I am interested in talking to you about the potential switching to renewable energy in Florida. The potential switching, I would like to talk about with you is the potential of solar power renewable energy. Solar energy in Florida has seen an increase over the years, meaning Florida residents see the need for clean energy. Since Florida is the tenth sunniest city in the United States, seeing the sunshine 85 percent of the year, south Florida is the perfect environment for the use of solar power. If you guys can strive to implement this renewable energy it would not only promote to a green earth and would be more beneficial to the area down here!
3.
Answer the question posed by the video: Can 100% renewable energy power the world?
It is technically possible to achieve almost 100% renewable energy sources within the next four decades, concludes the World Wildlife Federation's (WWF) 2011 Energy Report, which sees wind, solar, biomass and hydropower as the future major players.
Unit 5 Assignment Part 3:
Questions (to be answered on your answer sheet):
Calculate the circular cross-section of the Deep Water Horizon pipe: 1,384,74 (note: your answer is in sq. in.)
Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every second: 21 cubic inches/second (hint: this involves multiplying a linear rate of inches per second with the cross section)
Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every minute: 1260 cu. in/minute
Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every hour: 75,600 cu. in/hour
Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every day: 1,814,400 cu in/day
Convert cu in/day to cubic feet per day: 1050 cu ft/day
Convert cu ft/day to barrels/day (5.61 cu ft/barrel of oil): 187.16 bbl/day (Note: bbl is the abbreviation for ‘barrels’)
Multiply bbl/day x 86 days: 16,095.76 = total barrels of oil leaked.
Calculate the gallons of oil leaked: 676,021.92 = total gallons of oil leaked (There are 42 U.S. gallons in a barrel of oil).
Respond: Review chapter 6 of the linked report in the introduction. Discuss at least three environmental impacts caused by this devastating oil spill.
Oil spills frequently kill marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, seals, and sea otters.10 Oil can clog blowholes of whales and dolphins, making it impossible for them to breathe properly and disrupting their ability to communicate. Oil coats fur of otters and seals, leaving them vulnerable to hypothermia. Even when marine mammals escape the immediate effects, an oil spill can contaminate their food supply. Marine mammals that eat fish or other food exposed to an oil spill may be poisoned by oil and die or experience other problems.
Long-term damage to species and their habitats and nesting or breeding grounds is one of the most far-reaching environmental effects caused by oil spills.16 Even species that spend most of their lives at sea, such as various species of sea turtles, must come ashore to nest. Oil spills coat everything they touch and become unwelcome but long-term parts of every ecosystem they enter.1 When an oil slick from a large spill reaches a beach, oil coats and clings to every rock and grain of sand.2 If the oil washes into coastal marshes, mangrove forests, or other wetlands, fibrous plants and grasses absorb oil, which can damage plants and make the area unsuitable as wildlife habitat.
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