• Overview
• Lessons
• Managing Resouces
• - Introduction
• - Step 1
• - Step 2
• Energy Efficiency
• - Introduction
• - Step 1
• - Step 2
• - For Your Consideration
• HELP

Overview

In today's world, with populations and economies booming, the demand for energy is rising. A portfolio of energy sources is used to meet this demand. Because there is no perfectly clean, safe, and inexpensive source of energy, the makeup of this portfolio involves tradeoffs of safety, cost, and—of increasing concern—emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO₂. (If you haven't completed the Carbon lab, we recommend you start there). In this lab, your challenge is to try to meet the world's projected energy demand by choosing from the available energy sources, while keeping atmospheric CO₂ under control and avoiding the particular limits and pitfalls associated with each energy source.

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