Energy Education:Chapter 3

Who are these people who are demanding energy? Everyone! However, the specifics of those demands depends a lot on where those people are and what infrastructure they have access to. Please read the following pages before the lectures on chapter 3:

3A:

• Fertility rate
• Replacement rate
• World population
• Urban population
• Rural population
• Life expectancy
• Agricultural energy use
• Industrial energy use
• Embodied energy
• Energy density

3B

• Joule
• Calorie
• British thermal unit
• Barrels of oil equivalent
• Quad
• Power
• Energy vs power
• Watt
• Horsepower
• Mechanical power
• Power servant
• High energy society
• Residential energy use
• Energy use by sector