Bull gates talks about Zero CO2

New Georgia nuclear plants

Ny times article about the new nuclear plants in Ga

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/business/energy-environment/2-new-reactors-approved-in-georgia.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/us-usa-nuclear-license-idUSTRE8181T420120209

http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/

http://ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/station_blackout_home/animations1.html

New Georgia nuclear plants

Ny times article about the new nuclear plants in Ga

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/business/energy-environment/2-new-reactors-approved-in-georgia.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/09/us-usa-nuclear-license-idUSTRE8181T420120209

http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/

http://ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/station_blackout_home/animations1.html

Pa Doctors gag order on Gas drilling!!

EPA to gas companies - tell us what is in fracking water

Halliburton caught using diesel fuel in drilling

Gag order to doctors

Gas companies and Halliburton have used a 2005 law loophole and used it for the biggest disregard to the clean air act and clean water act meant to protect the little poeple... instead people get sick ... people die and big oil and gas does not have to tell anybody how bad the chemicals that they use and how much they are killing everybody !!

Extra credit opportunities

Film: Gasland

Tuesday, March 20 - 7:00 PM

The Moose Exchange

203 West Main Street, Bloomsburg

Film: Petropolis

Wednesday, March 21 - 2:00 PM

Bloomsburg Univ., Student Services Center 004

Film: Crude

Tuesday, March 27 - 7:00 PM

Bloomsburg Univ., Student Services Center 004

Gas and Oil

I realize this link might have a bit of a political swing to it, but there is some very telling information about the use of oil and gas and where it is all going to and coming from! Look at how quickly Chinese automobile usage has in creased in just the last 4 years

US Government link

Energy consumption by state

In my internet travels i found some very interesting information that is public use from Google. I never knew Google had this type of information available on line. Anyway, go look and see what you find for a state by state comparison. I found the fact that Texas having 10 million less people than California. Texas used almost twice the energy per person than California!!! STUNNING!!

Energy on Google

Petroleum Exports exceed imports

The United States in 2011 exported more petroleum products, on an annual basis, than it imported for the first time since 1949, but American refiners still imported large, although declining, amounts of crude oil, according to full-year trade data from EIA's Petroleum Supply Monthly February report. The increase in foreign purchases of distillate fuel contributed the most to the United States becoming a net exporter of petroleum products.

U.S. petroleum product net exports (exports minus imports) averaged 0.44 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2011, with imports at a nine-year low of close to 2.4 million bbl/d and exports at a record high of nearly 2.9 million bbl/d. The gap between exports and imports widened the most during the second half of the year from August through December (see charts below), with total monthly exports topping 3 million bbl/d for the first time.

Original posting on EIA.gov site

Foreign oil dependence

America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year since President Obama took office. In 2010, we imported less than 50 percent of the oil our nation consumed—the first time that’s happened in 13 years—and the trend continued in 2011

We’re relying less on imported oil for a number of reasons, not least that production is up here in the United States. In fact, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. As part of his strategy to increase safe, responsible oil production in the United States, President Obama has opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration and we now have more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world—combined.

Despite all this, Americans are still paying more at the pump when we fill up. That's because drilling for more oil here at home won’t affect the price of gas on its own. Oil is bought and sold on a world market. In the short term, it’s subject to price spikes when there’s instability or uncertainty along the global supply chain. And growing demand in countries like India, Brazil, and China, which tripled the number of cars on the road in the last five years, will drive prices even higher over the long term.

So we have to do more than drill now to bring down prices for the future. Relying on the fossil fuels of the last century won’t be enough, especially as demand keeps increasing. We need an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. This includes everything from tapping our offshore oil supplies and vast natural gas reserves, to doubling down on clean energy resources like wind and solar power, and developing new technologies that help us use less energy altogether.

This is the strategy President Obama has been pursuing since he took office, but there’s still more to be done. We need to put in place the right incentives to encourage a clean energy future, and repeal the $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies paid to oil and gas companies. Today in New Hampshire, the President will reiterate his call on Congress to do just that.

Starch peanuts

So i ordered from Amazon.com a few days ago and yesterday i had the pleasure of opening a a new product as if it was Christmas morning. Just like anything else sent through the mail, UPS or Fed-Ex there is always the packing materials involved. Granted many different types of packing material have trended towards a greener material, but the issue was they were still some sort of plastic involved. Well today i has half a box of peanuts left over. After accidentally getting one wet i realized it started to dissolve right before my eyes. So i added a pile into my kitchen sink and started to spray hot water all over them and the following video is the result. After a little more research i find out that peanuts are based on corn starch.... which is 100% american grown corn and most of the machines that make it use just air not carbon dioxide or some other gas. The units are sold to individual packing facilities around the US. So where ever you american made produce is packed, they can make them right there on site! This is something that makes me very happy ... american grown, american made, american ingenuity!!

HD VIDEO - DISSOLVING THE PEANUTS

Storage containers

For those of you who like starbucks or even not.... here is a very inventive way to reuse storage containers. When goods are shipped from china the large containers stay here because we dont ship enough back. It cost china more to ship them back then it does to make a new one. There are people who even build houses from these type of containers and now Starbucks built an entire store from them. The beauty of this store... if they decide to move it, they just break up the containers, load them on trucks and move to a new location and put it back together again.

http://www.starbucks.com/blog/sustainable-store-design-in-action/1158?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=storedesign

This link has more closeups of the store

http://www.starbucksmelody.com/2011/12/19/the-shipping-container-starbucks/

Test 1

After your test today, I will grade your scantrons and add to Bolt hopefully before the end of the week. Attendance will be updated and you will have a pretty good idea where you fall grade wise. As I will mention in class... you will have both a scantron version and a hard-copy version of this test. If for some reason you don't agree with your grade you can meet with me during my office hours or send me an e-mail and we can arrange a time to meet. Once I have the exam grades up you have 10 days to come to me about any adjustments or changes to your grades. After the 10 days your grade is final! You will not get your exams back! Good luck

Jan 2012 4th warmest for entire US

A recent article from NOAA explaining and showing how warm January actually was across the entire US

http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitoring/jan_stats.html

NOAA 2011 weather

Here is a really good link that talks about the season of 2011 and all the effects on climate. go through the images and you will see some very poignant images of the earth.

http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/image/2012/fierce-2010-2011-winter-dwarfs-this-seasons-snowfall

Where are the power plants

i found and interesting link that shows you all the power plants by state you can mouse over and it will tell you what the name of the plant is what type of energy is used for the plant and what the power output of the plant is. if you notice there very few power plants in the NE of pa and alot of coal plants in Pa. Including TMI (three mile island) there are 6 nuclear power plants in the state of PA .... some generating upwards of 2.2Giga watts

http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles.cfm?sid=PA

Yugo

here is the yugo commercial i was talking about in class .... in todays dollars the car was $7,000-$10,000 brand new.

1986 Yugo commercial

Energy description

Welcome to the energy course. throughout the semester we will discuss and investigate various sources of energy and how they affect us the environment and our future. If you take even some interest in this class, it will be rewarding and informative. It will hopefully change how you think about Oil, gas, coal, solar and Hydro-electric power and change decisions about your future!

Good luck to everybody

Professor John M. Wardigo