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What is my relationship to climate and energy?

HOW MUCH POWERDO I USE?

Power, in Watts, is like an average.The average amount of energy, in Joules, you use each second.

Using units of power allows you to compare things that happen on markedly different time scales. yearly + monthly + daily + ...

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7,462 Watts

170 Watts

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If you do something monthly (like your electricity bill), it contributes:

If you do something daily (like drink 1 Energy drink), it contributes:

MY 2007 LIFE17027 W (pre tax)

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OAK-OGG-HON-OAK 560 W

SFO-BOS 210 W

BOS-SFO 210 W

OAK-DC 180 W

DC-OAK 180 W

OAK-ORD-MON-QUE 210 WQUE-DTW-SFO 210 WSFO-JFK 200 WJFK-SFO 200 W

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TEXTILES 90 W

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HEALTHCARE 680 WFINANCE 60 WEDUCATION 340 W

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16 Belgium17 Saudi Arabia18 Singapore19 Gibraltar20 Netherlands21 Oman22 France23 Russian Federation24 New Zealand25 Korea, Rep26 Czech Rep27 Germany28 Austria29 Japan30 United Kingdom31 Denmark32 Ireland33 Switzerland34 Estonia35 Turkmenistan36 Slovenia37 Slovakia38 Kazakhstan39 Cyprus40 Spain41 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya42 Israel43 Italy44 Ukraine45 Greece46 Belarus47 Lithuania48 South Africa49 Hungary50 Bulgaria

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US Average.

Global Average

Per capita power use 2003

Units shown in Terawatts (TW)

Energy production

Plants: 5.2

Tidal: 0.0005

Solar: 0.016

Wind: 0.06

Gas: 3.2 Coal: 3.6

Geothermal: 0.03

Nuclear: 1

Hydro: 0.36

Oil:5

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16 AUSTRALIA17 CZECHOSLOVAKIA18 BELGIUM19 SPAIN20 BRAZIL21 REPUBLIC_OF_KOREA22 NETHERLANDS23 ISLAMIC_REPUBLIC_OF_IRAN24 SAUDI_ARABIA25 INDONESIA26 ROMANIA27 DEMOCRATIC_PEOPLES_REPUBLIC_OF_KOREA28 ARGENTINA29 VENEZUELA30 TURKEY31 UKRAINE32 TAIWAN33 AUSTRIA34 SWEDEN35 HUNGARY36 THAILAND37 DENMARK38 ALGERIA39 BULGARIA40 EGYPT41 GREECE42 SWITZERLAND43 NIGERIA44 MALAYSIA45 FINLAND46 UNITED_ARAB_EMIRATES47 KAZAKHSTAN48 IRAQ49 COLOMBIA50 PAKISTAN

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Temperature Changes around the world in the last quarter of the 20th century

- 1 - 0.8 - 0.6 - 0.4 - 0.2 0 + 0.2 + 0.4 + 0.6 + 0.8 + 1

Trends in °C per decade

-1 -0.8 +0.8-0.6 +0.6-0.4 +0.4-0.2 +0.20 +1

Current Demand:

16 TW

Fossil Fuel:

3 TW

Existing non-carbon:

1.5 TW

New Clean Energy:

16 - ( 3 + 1.5 ) = 11.5 TW

What is the challenge?

Sources of renewable energy.

31 000 TW Atmospheric Absorption

85 000 TW Surface Solar

62 TW Ocean surface waves

90 TW Photosynthesis

65 TW Land3 TW Coastal waves

7.2 TW Hydro Rivers

300 TW Hydro Clouds

25 TW Hydro Land

3600 TW Wind

41 000 TW Evaporation

38 000 TW Land & Water heating

3.5 TW Tidal

32 TW Geo thermal

25 TW Ocean

100 TW Ocean thermal gradient

15 TWGlobal consumption

Land area by country represented as scaled stripes

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SFO-ATL-CPH 510 W

HEL-AMS-ATL-SFO 570 W

OAK-OGG-HON-OAK 560 W

SFO-BOS 210 W

BOS-SFO 210 W

OAK-DC 180 W

DC-OAK 180 W

OAK-ORD-MON-QUE 210 WQUE-DTW-SFO 210 WSFO-JFK 200 WJFK-SFO 200 W

OAK-BUR 20 W

BUR-OAK 20 W

SFO-BOS 210 WBOS-ORD 70 WORD-SFO 140 WSFO-JFK 200 WJFK-SFO 200 W

SJC-SJO 230 W

SJO-SJC 230 W

SJC-VIJ 280 W

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ELECTRONICS 250 W

NEWS 180 W

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TEXTILES 90 W

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we hear about

what is politically possible

we need to reframe the conversation as

what is technically necessary