Bp Calculations

My results from the BP calculator are 11067, kWh/yr. The energy I use up is almost half of the pie chart on the BP energy calculator shown on the website. I realized some things that I can do to reduce my energy consumption is to actually recycle, but it is hard when I don’t have a vehicle to drop off my recyclables. I can ask someone to take me there or take the bus to the recycling center. I know I have a lot of excuses to not doing what is right and now I know how much easier it is to just ignore the facts. So I want to stop ignoring the facts and actually do something, because after doing all this research it’s apparent that the earth is going to run out of fossil fuels. Also I want to stop leaving electronics on standby; instead I want to just shut them off, so I won’t use up as much energy. Another issue I sort of deal with is leaving lights on and I think that I need to do my best to leave the lights off till I absolutely need them. Also I can try not to watch as much television. After all, the energy issues is not just a small issue, because it is going to keep growing and it is going to take everyone’s team work to slow down the consumption. So then we can have enough time to find other renewable resources to use instead.

What is your energy profile?What size is your carbon footprint?.(2010).Retrieved March 30,2010, from http://www.bp.com/iframe.do?categoryId=9027929&contentId=7050956

My response to Denali's blog entry

Denali’s blog entry is about how geothermal energy works, and how it costs a lot, as well as, many people think it is a bad idea to use, due to the costs. (Denali, 2010) The blog entry is one of the annotated bibliographies and I found it interesting, because I learned something new today about geothermal energy. I had no idea that it costs a lot to build them and to keep them up. I was also interested in this article, because a home owner in Haines is using geothermal energy to heat their home. So, I had already known that the geothermal energy comes from the earth’s heat to create energy.I had no idea that it costs so much to start it and to keep it going. I still think that the geothermal energy is worth using even though it is expensive, because we are not using up non renewable energy.

Denali(2010, March 27).Annotated bibliography olr research report. Message posted to http://denalisenergyblog.blogspot.com/.(2010, March 27)

How can We use less Energy? Is it possible?

This graph shows an estimate of how much energy will be consumed from 2000-2030. It shows how important it is to educate ourselves about energy consumption, because we may be able to change the statistics by reducing our use of energy, as well as, encouraging others to do the same. The article explains ways that new technology and methods will save energy. The new technology will reduce the amount of energy used by refrigerators, washers, dryers, heating systems, cooling systems, and this will lower energy usage and costs (Machine Design, 2009). This will mean that soon we will see a change in all home appliances and everything will be like a hybrid car in a sense that it will save us from using up nonrenewable energy. This is expected to start soon and we will start buying these products in hopes that the energy usage will diminish. Plus the authors hoped that everyone will begin to use energy efficient insulation, windows, and remodel their houses to meet energy efficient standards.
I chose this article in hopes that once the hybrid home appliances come out in stores that people will begin to buy them. These appliances are important to reducing energy consumption. I also hope that people will begin to remodel their homes to reach energy efficient standards. If you cannot do either yet then you could begin to let your friends know about these new ways to save energy or encourage others to go green. The graph is a great visual because it shows how much energy consumption is going to go up. I used it so that people will realize that every little act of saving energy helps and that you should start if you have not yet already.

How to slow the growth of electricity consumption.Machine design.volume 81 (11), 46-47.

What Does Energy Have To Do With Us?

The book, “The Use of Energy”, is about how people are using up energy resources and about energy coming from the earth, as well as, how we are going to use up more energy than we have on earth. The author also talks a lot about how the agriculture companies, are not being resourceful, because, they waste perfectly good resources such as horse manure. As the author Berry has said,” energy is at once to live and to die”, (Berry, 1986) the significance of this quote is literal and explains how the energy we use (fossil fuel) is going to run out, because we use these resources way too much. In addition, he adds on to how we do not actually pay attention to where we are getting this energy or how much we are wasting daily.
Throughout the book ,Berry, the author, states how energy is always being used up by people either eating food, using technology and how it takes the earth a long time to replace the used up energy resources. (Berry, 1986) The problem with energy is that earth has only so many resources and most are nonrenewable, so we cannot get them back. Soon everyone will need to discover a renewable resource to use other than the nonrenewable energy, because we will not have a choice but to limit ourselves, so everyone should get a head start before we run out. The big agriculture companies should get a head start too, but they are wasting resources too. They are not using the horse manure as a resource and they need to because it helps the soil become rich so that they can keep planting crops. Instead they are wasting it, and it’s a bad idea to not use valuable resources, because they are available. It is like how we are using up energy and wasting most of it and not even realizing how or why it’s important not to use it all up. Instead people could ride their bikes but most people don’t and drive. People also could limit their time on their laptops or turn down the heat in their homes, but many of us do not. As a whole I think that everyone needs to stop wasting energy and notice that most energy, once you use it up does not come back; it is not coming back like plants do in the circle of life (Berry, 1986).

Berry, W. (1986). The Use of Energy. In The Unsettling of America:Culture & Agriculture . San Francisco: The Sierra Club Books.