Answers to Sep 23 Quiz and Additional Questions

Focus for Discussion = “Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future” by Jeff Goodell © 2006 (available from your local library or in paperback from Amazon.com for $10.17 new/$8.88 used + shipping).
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Answers to Sep 23 Quiz and Additional Questions

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New Quiz for This Week =

(1) According to the lead editorial in the NY Times last Monday, what country is about to pass the U.S. as the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases?

(2) Was the country that is about to pass us exempted from the Kyoto Protocol? (that is a country actually exempted by the terms of the Protocol – not a country that was covered but failed to ratify it)

(3) Were there any other major polluting countries that were actually exempted from the Kyoto Protocol?

(4) Have there been, in the last week, any developments concerning use of radio waves to produce hydrogen from water? (2H20 > H2 + O2)

(5) Have there been, in the last week, any new applications filed for permits to build new nuclear plants in the U.S.?

QUESTIONS (4) AND (5) ARE INTENDED AS REQUESTS TO SCOUR THE MEDIA AND EITHER POST YOUR ANSWERS ON OUR BULLETIN BOARD (www.drinkingliberallyslc.org/reading) OR BRING THEM ALONG ON OCT 11TH FOR OUR DISCUSSION.

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Answers to Last Week’s Quiz –

(1) What gases cause global warming?

Carbon di-oxide and carbon mon-oxide.

(2) What three fuels produce these gases?

Coal, natural gas, petroleum products (av jet, gasoline, fuel oil, etc.)

(3) What do these three fuels have in common?

They are fossil fuels (aka hydrocarbon fuels)

(4) Does the Kyoto Protocol prevent global warming or merely slow it down?

Merely slows it down.

(5) Is there a fuel that is abundant enough to prevent global warming entirely?

Hydrogen (from water, which is H2O)

(6) What are the four potential energy sources for producing that fuel?

There are actually five -- nuclear, solar photo-voltaic, wind, tidal and radio waves

(7) Which of the four emerged this month?

Radio waves

(8) Are any of the four economic?

Yes, nuclear.

(9) What will happen if we do not provide proper direction for our politicians?

We all fry.

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