ENVS 1 Final Vocab Review SJSU
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Net Energy✔✔Total amount of useful energy available from an energy resource or
energy system over its lifetime, minus the amount of energy used (the first energy
law), automatically wasted (the second energy law), and unnecessarily wasted in
finding, processing, concentrating, and transporting it to users.
Benefits from wind energy✔✔Clean energy source, don't produce atmospheric
emissions(greenhouse gasses).
Drawbacks of solar energy✔✔Initial cost of instillation, weather dependent, storage
of energy is expensive, uses a lot of space.
Biomass energy✔✔Energy derived from burning organic material such as wood,
alcohol, and garbage.
Strategies of energy conservation✔✔Reduce use of thermostats, turn off appliances,
don't buy things, simplify your life
Pros of Cap and Trade Programs✔✔-Creates a new economic resource to industries
-preset maximum level of emissions
-supplement taxpayer resources
-be used to fund alternative energy resources
-average person can create change
Cons of Cap and Trade Programs✔✔-Emission credits are just given away instead
of bought
-credits are high in price
-emission credits are almost always cheaper than alternative resources
-easy to cheat the system
-create higher prices for the same amount of goods
climate change mitigation✔✔Using new technologies and renewable energies,
making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices
or consumer behavior.
climate change adaption✔✔A response to global warming, that seeks to reduce the
vulnerability of social and biological systems to relatively sudden change and thus
offset the effects of global warming.
Main factors of climate change✔✔Emission of greenhouse gasses such as water
vapor, Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons.
questions and answers a+
Net Energy✔✔Total amount of useful energy available from an energy resource or
energy system over its lifetime, minus the amount of energy used (the first energy
law), automatically wasted (the second energy law), and unnecessarily wasted in
finding, processing, concentrating, and transporting it to users.
Benefits from wind energy✔✔Clean energy source, don't produce atmospheric
emissions(greenhouse gasses).
Drawbacks of solar energy✔✔Initial cost of instillation, weather dependent, storage
of energy is expensive, uses a lot of space.
Biomass energy✔✔Energy derived from burning organic material such as wood,
alcohol, and garbage.
Strategies of energy conservation✔✔Reduce use of thermostats, turn off appliances,
don't buy things, simplify your life
Pros of Cap and Trade Programs✔✔-Creates a new economic resource to industries
-preset maximum level of emissions
-supplement taxpayer resources
-be used to fund alternative energy resources
-average person can create change
Cons of Cap and Trade Programs✔✔-Emission credits are just given away instead
of bought
-credits are high in price
-emission credits are almost always cheaper than alternative resources
-easy to cheat the system
-create higher prices for the same amount of goods
climate change mitigation✔✔Using new technologies and renewable energies,
making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices
or consumer behavior.
climate change adaption✔✔A response to global warming, that seeks to reduce the
vulnerability of social and biological systems to relatively sudden change and thus
offset the effects of global warming.
Main factors of climate change✔✔Emission of greenhouse gasses such as water
vapor, Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons.
