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ASSIGNMENT PART 1 Select one city in the United States that you would move to and read the following prompt

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ASSIGNMENT PART 1 Select one city in the United States that you would move to and read the following prompt. You have just moved to a new city in the United States to start a brand new job! Congratulations! Upon moving in, you noticed that the city is highly reliant on Fossil Fuels. Write a letter to city officials to discuss the potential for switching to Renewable Energy resources in your new city. Given here are the "Potential" maps for many types of renewable energy resources. Using these maps as a guide, discuss which types of renewable energy sources would be appropriate to research in your letter. Then, do a quick search online to see what types of renewable energy resources are currently being used/researched in your chosen city. Discuss this in a short discussion below your letter. Solar potential Geothermal potential Wind potential Biomass potential Hydropower potential Hydro (NPD) potential ASSIGNMENT PART 2 Access the Ted-Ed Video titled, "Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?" Answer the associated response questions on your Unit 5 Assignment Student Answer Sheet. TED-Ed. (2017, Dec 7). Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei [Video]. 5:55 mins. YouTube. ASSIGNMENT PART 3 Top Videos. (2010,May 15). New Underwater footage of BP oil leak [Video]. 0:30 mins. YouTube. The "Tragedy of the Commons" played out for all between 20 April and 15 July 2010. On 20 April 2010 (ironically, Earth Day), the Deep Water Horizon drilling vessel in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a catastrophic blow-out and explosion resulting in the loss of 11 men and ultimately the loss of the $540 million dollar vessel. Loss of control of the oil well permitted oil to flow freely into the Gulf of Mexico for 86 days. It stands today one of the largest oil spills in history. The reports of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling are freely available: GPO-OILCOMMISSION.pdf Your task is to estimate the quantity of oil that leaked from the Deep Water Horizon well between 20 April and 15 July 2011. I hope you will be surprised to discover that reasonable estimates from a small quantity of available data are possible and reveal much about this "Tragedy of the Commons." To do this, you need a few important pieces of information: The diameter of the Deep Water Horizon oil pipe is 21 inches. The oil stream emanating from the pipe exits at about 21 inches per second. 12 x 12 x 12 = 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot. To find the cross-section of the pipe, you need to know that the area of a circle is: A = ?r^2 Questions (to be answered on your answer sheet): Calculate the circular cross-section of the Deep Water Horizon pipe: ______________________ (note: your answer is in sq. in.) Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every second: ______________ cubic inches/second (hint: this involves multiplying a linear rate of inches per second with the cross section) Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every minute: ____________________ cu. in/minute Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every hour: _______________________ cu. in/hour Calculate the volume of oil exiting the pipe every day: __________________________ cu in/day Convert cu in/day to cubic feet per day: ______________________________________ cu ft/day Convert cu ft/day to barrels/day (5.61 cu ft/barrel of oil): _________________________ bbl/day (Note: bbl is the abbreviation for ‘barrels’) Multiply bbl/day x 86 days: _________________________________= total barrels of oil leaked. Calculate the gallons of oil leaked: ___________________________= total gallons of oil leaked.(There are 42 U.S. gallons in a barrel of oil.) Review chapter 6 of the linked report in the introduction. Discuss at least three environmental impacts caused by this devastating oil spill Note: Unit 5 Assignment Part 2 was adapted from How Much Oil Leaked from Deepwater Horizon? by Stephen K. Boss through SERC Education Initiative

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