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Participation Week 3
Emma Keary
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TSES 3002
John Buschek
January 28, 2022
Q1: What is a mineral reserve?
A mineral reserve is a part of the reserve base that can be economically extracted or
produced to be mineable at the time of determination. In which reserves include recoverable
materials, thus extractable and recoverable reserves, as reserves are “used to do things”( U.S.
Geological Survey, n.d.).
Q2: Natural Resources Canada defines primary energy in two ways.
What is the difference between the two ways?
Primary energy is the first form of a statistical energy balance before any
transformations to second or tertiary energy forms (EIA, n.d.). Natural Resources Canada defines
primary energy here, as an energy production that uses two methods, the first treats the energy
embodied in uranium as a primary energy source, thereby capturing the uranium Canada
produces and then exports. This method provides a more accurate picture of energy production in
Canada, whereas the second method treats domestic electricity production from nuclear energy
as a primary energy source, but not uranium itself. This allows Canada to export most of its
uranium production, which defines the difference between the two methods producing such
different results (Natural Resources Canada, 2022).
The difference between the two energy productions is that the first includes
uranium, and that of 2017 Canada saw a production level of 29,642 petajoules of primary energy,
where the breakdown of fuel was crude oil 32%, uranium 29%, natural gas 24%, hydro 5%, coal
4%, other renewables 3%, natural gas liquids 3%.”. but when compared do the second method
the breakdown of Canada’s primary energy showed 21,385 petajoules of primary energy
produced that same year (Natural Resources Canada, 2022).
Q3: What are the 2 forms of energy?
There are many different forms of energy but can be grouped into two general
classifications. The first classification is potential “stored energy” and the second is kinetic
“working energy”
(EIA, 2021)
Q4: What are the energy inputs to the Earth System?
The energy inputs to the Earth System can consist of solar energy and its contribution to
the Earth’s energy balance. This can be seen in the example of Antarctica ice caps, because when
they began to form the energy balance due to the solar energy caused ice to reflect on the sun’s
energy, which ultimately caused the earth to cool, affecting the hydrosphere, in the means of the
changes in the precipitation of the water cycle (Panchuk, n.d.).
Q5: What comprises the Earth System according to NASA?
According to NASA, a system is defined as a group interacting to form a complex ideal,
in which five major systems work together to allow the earth to keep itself balanced, whereas a
change in one of these systems will affect the other systems compromising the Earth System as a
whole (myNASAdata, n.d).
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Glossary - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2022, from
https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.php?id=P
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(n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2022, from
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/energy/pdf/energy-factbook-oct2-
2018%20(1).pdf
NASA. (n.d.).
My NASA data
. NASA. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from
https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/basic-page/about-earth-system-background-information
Panchuk, K. (n.d.).
16.1 what is the earth system?
Physical Geology First University of Saskatchewan
Edition. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from https://openpress.usask.ca/physicalgeology/chapter/16-
1-what-is-the-earth-system/
Principles of a
Resource/Reserve Classification For Minerals
. Sign in. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27,
2022, from https://brightspace.carleton.ca/d2l/le/content/81072/viewContent/2494141/View