Investigating Patterns In Energy Demand and Consumption.pptVIP

The median (2562083813 TJ) and the mean (2563370000 TJ) demand per year can give us a rough idea of our energy dependency over the years, as those figures are very close together The data only covers annual figures from ’95 to ’03, so it’s not reasonable to model this with a normal distribution A standard distribution model will say that 68% of the data lie between 2527891500 TJ to 2598848500 TJ…if we normalize the data, which we certainly will not! The IQR covers 17% of the range. That is a poor coverage, and indicates an irregularly large spread The maximum is 2629013581 TJ, and the minimum is 2509741992 TJ. This tells us the all-time low and high of the demand over the period of interest (those numbers were amongst ones the used in the index calculations, so they are useful) A great deal of the energy going to the industries is consumed by primary metal manufacturing, paper manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, and petrol coal products manufacturing. (20%, 32%, 10%, 14% respectively) There are several lessons to be learned here: Offices often buy paper in bulk, and their papers are often used in huge quantities (if not wasted). This large consumption creates a huge demand, which causes the industries to make more paper, and taxes nature’s energy reserves. Sure, Canada is rich in minerals, but it is still non-renewable. When the deposits run out… After all those years of awareness campaigns and whatnot, the industries are still reliant on non-renewable fuels. That is alarming. In this graph, the big drop from ’00 to ’01 came from the economic recession. As industries wilted, factories closed, and plants shut down, the energy consumption decreased This could potentially fuel the common-held belief that what’s bad for the environment is good for jobs, and vice versa. (That notion is incorrect; but since it’s not pertinent to the immediate topic, we omit the proof) From this we can learn that human activities can significantly influence energy consumption. You