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Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Inventory :Study Guide
Switch on a lamp in your home. Light spills out into the room. But where does the electricity come from that powers your lamp, your computer, or your refridgerator? As stated in the Inventory, in 1996 the fossil fuel emissions from the Residential Sector were 697,861 MTCE (metric tons carbon equivalent), the third largest emissions in this category after Transportation and Electric Utility. Given these large emissions, how might Rhode Island residents find ways to reduce the impact of their energy use? One way would be to cut down on our actual energy use - for some idea how, click here. Another answer, as Bob Dylan said, is blowin' in the wind - wind power that is. a) Where does your family receive its power from? b) Why is wind power a preferable energy source in terms of greenhouse gas emissions? c) What would happen if 5% of Rhode Island residents who were using Distillate Oil as a source switched to wind power to produce their electricity? Calculate out the reductions, in distillate produced energy consumed and in MTCE, if this occurred. (Assume that this is 1995. Also assume that greenhouse gas emissions from wind power are zero).
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*Global Warming Glossary & Definitions of Terms (EPA) in PDF format
*Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Inventory :Appendix A: Residential Fossil Fuel Consumption
*Visit the EnergyGuide website to : see where your energy comes from : use EcoCalc to see how you can reduce your energy use.
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