Mitigation Strategies and Solutions: Energy ConservationMitigation Strategies and Solutions: Energy ConservationMitigation Strategies and Solutions: Energy conservationSCI/275Energy ConservationEnergy conservation is an important topic that needs action to be taken immediately. If federal and local governments, the Environmental Protection Agency, industry, and individuals do not start to conserve energy then it will just continue to shorten the life expectancy of the fossil fuels we currently use. In addition, those fossil fuels release emissions that are harmful to the environment. There are several ways in which energy can be conserved, not just to cut down on how it is used, but also to find new effective ways to produce energy.
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The U.S. Senate’s proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act), will address those long-term concerns, as well as many other issues that could be addressed by enacting a sustainable future policy.
Under the proposed legislation, a new resource allocation tool that includes a new resource allocation plan for certain low-income areas is to be developed. This new resource allocation strategy will include two key issues:
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First, a comprehensive resource allocation strategy is needed to address energy conservation. That strategy needs to include, among other things, reducing production, making it more efficient, improving efficiency, and reducing emissions. Under that strategy, the national carbon budget would be allocated from 20% to 30% of GDP, as well as the share of future US income that meets the lowest carbon price for the country, as well as improving energy security in regions with few resources.
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The current US carbon budget is one source of a national carbon price that helps to determine whether a country is not paying its fair share of carbon pollution to the country’s emissions. The carbon budget is based on a 2 point formula, which is a measure of how much emissions are coming from the country’s emission reductions if the carbon budget is reduced. By the end of the 1980s, the US used to use 25% to 30% of the current US carbon budget for this purpose, as part of a carbon sequestration. That sequestration continues to be a critical factor in our current emissions reductions. However, the new energy conservation energy use strategy, as implemented in the proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act) will put pressure on this allocation mechanism to have a more balanced global carbon budget. Under this plan, an independent government would be tasked with planning its investment in energy and climate change by providing new energy allocation measures that ensure that all energy programs in every country can be funded fairly and with a level playing field for all. The National Energy Conservation Fund (NEF) in place for the foreseeable future will help to manage this allocation mechanism.
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Developing additional pathways to lower prices on energy through energy efficiency and energy efficiency technologies will lead to a much cleaner and more cost effective energy that uses less energy.
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Under the proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act), renewable energy will become more accessible to all. While no one can say when, or under what circumstances, a country is ready for the next phase of wind or solar power, every future generation of power generated by this technology can also be brought online, with wind and solar being relatively cheap. By taking advantage of some of the latest technologies developed by our industry and government, we expect to increase efficiency, increase carbon sequestration, and decrease CO 2 emissions substantially to meet energy demands of the future.
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Energy conservation is critical to helping protect the planet and protect the environment; to ensure that all our energy
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The U.S. Senate’s proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act), will address those long-term concerns, as well as many other issues that could be addressed by enacting a sustainable future policy.
Under the proposed legislation, a new resource allocation tool that includes a new resource allocation plan for certain low-income areas is to be developed. This new resource allocation strategy will include two key issues:
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First, a comprehensive resource allocation strategy is needed to address energy conservation. That strategy needs to include, among other things, reducing production, making it more efficient, improving efficiency, and reducing emissions. Under that strategy, the national carbon budget would be allocated from 20% to 30% of GDP, as well as the share of future US income that meets the lowest carbon price for the country, as well as improving energy security in regions with few resources.
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The current US carbon budget is one source of a national carbon price that helps to determine whether a country is not paying its fair share of carbon pollution to the country’s emissions. The carbon budget is based on a 2 point formula, which is a measure of how much emissions are coming from the country’s emission reductions if the carbon budget is reduced. By the end of the 1980s, the US used to use 25% to 30% of the current US carbon budget for this purpose, as part of a carbon sequestration. That sequestration continues to be a critical factor in our current emissions reductions. However, the new energy conservation energy use strategy, as implemented in the proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act) will put pressure on this allocation mechanism to have a more balanced global carbon budget. Under this plan, an independent government would be tasked with planning its investment in energy and climate change by providing new energy allocation measures that ensure that all energy programs in every country can be funded fairly and with a level playing field for all. The National Energy Conservation Fund (NEF) in place for the foreseeable future will help to manage this allocation mechanism.
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Developing additional pathways to lower prices on energy through energy efficiency and energy efficiency technologies will lead to a much cleaner and more cost effective energy that uses less energy.
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Under the proposed Energy Conservation (Energy Act), renewable energy will become more accessible to all. While no one can say when, or under what circumstances, a country is ready for the next phase of wind or solar power, every future generation of power generated by this technology can also be brought online, with wind and solar being relatively cheap. By taking advantage of some of the latest technologies developed by our industry and government, we expect to increase efficiency, increase carbon sequestration, and decrease CO 2 emissions substantially to meet energy demands of the future.
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Energy conservation is critical to helping protect the planet and protect the environment; to ensure that all our energy
There is an increasing demand for energy as the world continues to grow. The problem is that most energy is produced using nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, natural gas, and other fossil fuels. These resources cannot replenish themselves, or will not before they are depleted (Berg & Hager, 2007). In the United States, 71.5% of the energy produced came from nonrenewable resources in 1997(Environmental Protection Agency, 1997), with that figure over 85% today (Quote Oil, n.d.). Coal, under its current consumption, is only expected to last worldwide for another 200 years, according to the World Resource Institute (Berg & Hager, 2007).
Currently, industry uses about 42% of the energy produced in the United States, with homes and offices using 33%, and transportation using 25% (Berg & Hager, 2007). These are all areas that would benefit from renewable energy, such as wind, water, or solar power. They will not only help to save consumers money, but they do not release the harmful emissions that nonrenewable resources do. Electric companies, in the United States, that burn coal produces a third of all the mercury emissions in the air (Berg & Hager, 2007). The burning of coal and other fossil fuel emit sulfur and nitrogen oxides that turns into acids when they come in contact with water (Berg & Hager, 2007). Much of the United States oil and other petroleum products are imported, over 60% today compared to only 28% thirty years ago (Quote Oil, n.d.).
Renewable resources such as the ones previously mentioned, in addition to biomass and geothermal energy, cannot be depleted. The current technology used to capture the resources for energy conversion is expensive. However, when considering how much oil costs and how long it will take before future generation find themselves in an energy crisis, perhaps the economics of renewable energy is affordable. There is technology that can extend the life expectance of coal to over 1,000 years, but is considered too expensive to implement (Berg & Hager, 2007). Newer, “clean coil” technologies do help to reduce emissions and produce more energy than the current standards, but these resources will still run out on day. It just makes sense to continue to invest in renewable energy, not only will it reduce emissions that cause global warming and other pollution problems, the new projects will also create many jobs that are needed across the United States. In addition, biomass energy uses farm waste and other natural products that can be found throughout the United States, and the world. The technology could allow every nation throughout the world to become independent from importing fuels for their transportation needs.
Environmental FactorsThe environment and all of its surroundings are harmed by the emissions that nonrenewable resources produce. In addition, the methods for harvesting these resources can do major damage to the environment. Many people have read and seen on television the devastation caused by the British Petroleum, Exxon Valdez, and other oil spills have caused. Wildlife was covered in oil and many died, and even after the oil companies claimed the clean ups were finished, there were still traces of oil to be found on shorelines throughout those regions (Berg & Hager, 2007). They even effect many human populations that depend on those waters for their lively hood as fishermen, and/or by the oil contaminating the wildlife those areas use as their main food supply. Even if there is a disaster on land with an oil well, like an explosion or blowout, they leak oil all over the land or send enormous clouds of black smoke into the air, with no pollution controls to filter the emissions in that cloud of black smoke.
Many of the old practices for gathering coal had devastated the landscape and continue to do so. Coal that is mined by a procedure known as strip mining removes large masses of earth which devastates wildlife habitats. Mines like these allow rain water to come in contact