Bryant University
Energy Management Strategies (Sci355)
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        Production & Consumption Patterns (general trends of energy use)

        How Energy Makes Things Work (overview of fuels used in society)

        End Use Sectors (consumption patterns - RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, TRANSPORTATION sectors)

        Energy Flow/Economic Implications (measuring the hidden energy costs, fuel cycles, economic principles, subsidies)

        Basic Principles of Pollution  (types of pollution, waste management, pollution prevention/avoidance)

        Global Environmental Issues (globalization of energy flow; global climate change)
 

        What are some of the key terms we use to describe energy flow?

 

Producers	Herbivores	Carnivores
Decomposers	Food Webs	Fossil Fuels
Nuclear	Solar	Geothermal
Tidal	Wind Conversion	Fuel Cells
Embodied Energy	Net Energy Yield	Higher Quality Energy
Opportunity Costs	Conversion Efficiency	Transmission Losses
Entropy	Methyl Mercury	Greenhouse Gases
Sulfur dioxide	Nitrogen oxides	Acid Deposition
Surface Mining	Radioisotopes	Emissions vs. Effluents