Consumption function

Elizabeth Diller, the designer of the Roy and Diana Valegos Education Center, wanted to design a building that was not only a structurally powerful building, but an innovative, sustainable building that worked toward the goal of minimizing CUMC’s carbon footprint while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2025. The project was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfio, an interdisciplinary design studio that mixes the knowledge from different areas of expertise like architecture, visual, and…

INTRO With the rise in climate throughout the State of Alaska creating problems especially within the rural villages, the city of Anchorage is in the heart of most of the energy production, as well as the North Slope Region. From manufacturing, natural resources in oil to creating energy from all forms (hydro, solar, wind, etc.), a solution to produce more energy for the city of Anchorage is essential. Energy production is the most crucial element when it comes to creating power and resources…

Harijan & Majeed 2009). According to the International Energy Outlook (IEO, 2010), it is expected that renewable energy resource to be the emergent energy resource in world. Specifically, the average use of world’s renewable energy for generation and consumption of electricity will grow and increase by 3% and 2.6% per year over the period 2007 to 2035 respectively. As a result, the renewable share of world electricity generation will increase from 18% in 2007 to 23% in 2035. The largest share in…

Energy is an essential resource in everyday life. Our world revolves around energy and without it we wouldn’t be able to live. Our main source of energy is indeed fossil fuels but slowly they are becoming more and more limited. With fossil fuels once they are gone and used, they are gone forever. We burn these fossil fuels to receive fuel for planes, cars and powers electricity plants supporting large industries. Fossil fuel comes from decayed plants and animals. Although there are many…

and cooling all in one system. Geothermal energy is also sustainable,cost effective,and great for the environment. One non-beneficial factor of geothermal energy is that the power rate of the plants are more than double humanity’s current energy consumption. Also geothermal energy can also release harmful gases that can escape deep within the earth. Geothermal energy is one of the leading technologies in the renewable energy field but it still comes with danger.One of the dangers of geothermal…

Because fall and and shortly after, winter is among us, we often find ourselves drinking hot coffee and bundling up tightly together by the fireplace in our homes. One may ask themselves, who was the genius to think of such thing as? While many know Benjamin Franklin as being one of America’s founding fathers, many might be surprised to know that he has made many inventions in his life time, including the fireplace that is known as the Franklin Stove. In 1741 Franklin began his design that…

Fracking is a way to get natural gas, but it does more than that. “Just like any other industrial activity, there are risks, but good engineering, in combination with sensible and effective regulation, reduces those risks to maximize societal benefit.” (Fracking is a good idea) Due to the discovery of natural gas in the United States, fracking can save money by no longer buying natural gas from other countries. Fracking is a good idea because it provides jobs, makes energy for the United States,…

Germany: 19th century was the starting point of German environmentalism. Postwar environmentalism proved to be a way of liberation. Employing a wide range of methods, activists drew a new picture of Germany’s future. They wanted hilltop wind farms, rooftop solar panels and a post-nuclear nation, a land whose fish would be edible. Nowadays, the majority of Germans support the creation of an economy run on 100% renewable energy, 84% believe that this goal should be achieved “as quickly as possible…

When assessing my own energy usage I found that my home uses propane to heat and cook, and electricity for lights and the water heater. When I am at work we use electricity only, since we do not have a kitchen and our heating is an electric furnace as well as the water heater. When I am traveling to and from work I use gasoline in the car to assist on my journey. However, my area does have another form of travel which is the MARC train. The MARC train uses electricity when traveling to and from…

resources that are viewed as sustainable sources of energy storage [4]. Solar thermal energy is recognized as one of the best long-term options for heating and cooling energy supply. It has benefits such as it always helps to reduce primary energy consumption, it can be used as a hybrid with almost all kinds of back-up heat sources, and could be nearly everywhere with some limitations at very high latitudes. Thermal energy is a plentiful energy resource, which can be harnessed and stored as…