Transcript Data Table #2 – Energy Sources

Definitions
1. Resource:
• Anything we can get from the environment to meet our
needs and wants.
2. Perpetual Resources:
• Resources that are renewed continuously on a human time
scale.
3. Renewable Resources:
• Resources than can be replenished fairly rapidly through
natural processes, as long as they are not used up faster than
they are replaced.
4. Non-Renewable Resources:
• Resources that exist in fixed quantities in the earth’s crust. It
takes millions to billions of years to renew these resources.
Resources Flow Chart
Non-Renewable
Resources
Perpetual Resources
Solar Energy
Energy Resources
Metallic Minerals
(coal, oil, natural
gas, uranium)
(iron, copper, aluminum)
Renewable Resources
Biomass
Fresh Water
(forests, grasslands,
wild animals)
(lakes, streams,
groundwater)
Fresh Air
Non-Metallic
Minerals
(silt, clay,
sand)
Material World
A Global Resource Analysis
Moulo, Ethiopia, Africa
Poutasi, Western Samoa
Outside Burrel, Albania
Soweto, South Africa
Segovia, Spain
Hafnarfjördur, Iceland
Godalming, England
Pearland, Texas, USA
Data Table #1 – Energy Uses
Below is the most recent energy use data for total energy consumption and
energy consumption per capita for each country. Compare each country’s
per capita consumption to the world average of 1.64 toe. Units are in
thousands of toe, which is defined as ‘metric tons oil equivalent’ – roughly
the energy contained in a metric ton of crude oil.
Country
Total energy consumption (toe)
Energy consumption per capita (toe)
Above/below world per capita consumption
Ethiopia
18,227
0.29
-1.35
Albania
1,052
0.33
-1.31
2,269,985
7.96
+6.05
Mexico
148,991
1.50
-0.14
China
1,088,349
0.88
-0.76
France
255,043
4.23
+2.61
Japan
515,447
4.09
+2.45
United States
Data Table #2 – Energy Sources
Below is the most recent energy source data for energy
consumption by sector, using the large data categories of
total fossil fuels, nuclear, hydrostatic and renewables. Values
represent total consumption and per capita consumption.
Analysis
Country
Fossil Fuels
Nuclear
Hydroelectric
Renewables
Ethiopia
1,052
0.015
0
0
138
0.002
17,038
0.258
Albania
511
0.162
0
0
451
0.143
60
0.019
1,942,807
6.92
202,722
0.723
24,813
0.088
83,372
0.297
Mexico
130,612
1.282
2,607
0.026
2,819
0.028
12,908
0.127
China
854,743
0.660
3,896
0.003
17,527
0.014
212,938
0.165
France
139,942
2.343
102,742
1.721
6,227
0.104
10,001
0.168
Japan
416,131
3.26
82,512
0.647
7,432
0.058
8,325
0.065
United States