Fact #1
- Americans constitute less than 5% of the world's population but consume 25% of world’s resources, including 26% of the world's energy, having only 3% of the world’s known oil reserves, and generate roughly 30% of world’s waste.
- American's impact on the environment is at least 250 times greater than a Sub-Saharan African.
- Learn more about the Currrent Energy Scneario and its politics in the First week of lecture
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Fact #2
- The Tesla Roadster has been named as the Best Transportation Invention - 2006 by the Time magazine
- It’s a fully electric sports car, and is the first car to be produced by electric car firm Tesla Motors. Tesla claims prototypes have been able to accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in under 4 seconds, and reach a top speed of over 130 mph (210 km/h).
- Learn about different types of Engines, Transportation and their history in the 3rd week of lecture
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Fact #3
- 83% of the world’s air pollution comes from the production and use of electricity.
- Refrigerators account for 7% of the nation’s total energy use.
- Learn everything about the History of Electricty, Power generation etc in the 4th week of lecture
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Fact #4
- This is a very notorious picture of "Strip District, Pittsburgh" taken in June 1906 at 11AM. Compare with the recent scneario and find out how much the conditoin has improved since then.
- Coal-run power plants are still responsible for 70% of sulfur emissions in North America
- Learn more about the History, geology/geography, mining and utilization of Coal in the 5th and 6th week of lectures
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Fact #5
- Around 60% of the world's Total petroleum production comes from offshore operations in waters
- Learn everything about the History, production, Conversion, Transportation and Economics of the 20th Century fuel in the lectures 7,8 and 10.
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Fact #6
- Wind energy contributes just over 1% of world-wide electricity use. And for Demark, it accounts for approximately 20% of its total electricity production.
- Though USA is ranked 2nd and Denmark 5th for their contributions in world rankings USA’s contribution towards its total energy production is just 1%
- Learn more about Wind Energy, production, utilization in the 14th week of lecture
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"Fact #7
- The amount of energy produced by the sun in a 2 week period equals the combined stored energy of all the coal, iron, and natural gas reserves known to man.
- Learn more about solar energy production in the 15th week of lecture
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