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Name Date Pd Energy Storage and Transfer Model Worksheet 6: U.S. Energy Consumption and Supply 1. Looking at the table from the U.S. Energy Information Administration website, a. Which energy sources could be increased to meet our energy needs? b. Which energy sources will be forced to decline during your lifetime? Why? c. Conventional hydroelectric and geothermal energy sources are essentially “maxed out” in the U.S. Why? d. How does energy conservation (using energy efficiently) impact these numbers? 2. Coal will be an essential source in the years to come. The U.S. has huge, but finite, coal reserves. Name several of the major drawbacks to extensive coal use: 3. Petroleum Humans have really figured out how to use petroleum, but it won’t last long at the rate we’re using it. Here’s a dramatic way of diagramming petroleum use. The total area of the rectangles represents the estimated total amount of oil past and present on earth. Each square represents the amount of oil used during the indicated time period. In the 1970’s, it was predicted that we would exhaust our oil supplies by 2000 because of the previous two decades of 7% annual increases in oil consumption. Oil use pre-1953 Oil use 1963-73 (7.8% growth rate) Oil use 1985-95 (had the 7% growth rate continued.) Oil use 1953-63 (7% growth rate) Oil use 1975-85 (had the 7% growth rate continued.) In fact, the oil crisis of the 1970’s helped to curb the growth rate in oil consumption: Oil use pre-1953 Oil use 1963-73 (7.8% growth rate) Oil use 2000- 2035 (growth rate ~ 2.2%) Oil use 1953-63 (7% growth rate) Oil use 1973-2000 (3% growth rate) Oil won’t run out in 2035, however, because consumption will not remain high and then suddenly stop when oil runs out. Instead, consumption will be forced to decline as oil becomes scarce (and therefore expensive.) The 2006 growth rate in petroleum consumption declined to 0.7%. A graph of the quantity