Primary energy is the energy as it is available as resources: coal, uranium, oil, gas, etc.
Secondary energy is converted into a transportable form, e.g. electricity, gasoline and diesel, or heat.
Final energy is delivered secondary energy: gasoline at the fuel pump, electricity in your home.
Useful energy is the energy that goes towards the desired output as opposed to waste energy. For example, when you run in internal combustion gasoline engine, some energy is lost as heat.
Based on this post from Hannah Ritchie
Renewable energy is energy derived from natural processes that are replenished at a rate that is equal to or faster than the rate at which they are consumed, e.g. energy generated from solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and ocean resources.
Direct vs. Substitution Methods for calculating shares of primary energy
direct calculations look at the energy supplied via, for example, oil and natural gas, but does not take account of the energy lost in conversion processes.
Low-carbon’s share in direct primary energy = % of total primary energy consumption (including all of the inefficiencies of fossil fuel production)
Low carbon’s share in substituted primary energy = % of useful energy (once we subtract all of the wasted energy in the burning of fossil fuels)
This will be the first and (I hope) last pie chart we use in this class
"Wherever mechanical force is expended, an exact equivalent of heat is always obtained"
- James Prescott Joule, 1843
Where might you run into some of these units?
check you phone/laptop charger (Apple 29W charger, for e.g.)
check your breaker panel at home - you'll see breakers in amps (15A, 20A, 30A, 40A and maybe 100A breakers)
check your hairdryer (1500W?)
Appliance | Wattage | Hours Per Month | Monthly Consumption (kWh) |
$/Month ($0.1524/kWh) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Block Heater | 500 | 120-480 | 240 |
$36.58 |
Clothes Dryer | 5000 | 6-28 | 140 |
$21.34 |
Clothes Washer | 500 | 7-40 | 20 |
$3.05 |
Dishwasher | 1300 | 8-40 | 52 |
$7.92 |
Hair Dryer | 1000 | 1-10 | 10 |
$1.52 |
Kettle | 1500 | 1-10 | 10 |
$1.52 |
Range - Oven | 12,500 | 10-50 | 625 |
$95.25 |
Refrigerator | 500 | 150-300 | 150 |
$22.86 |
Where might you run into some of these units?
check you phone/laptop charger (Apple 29W charger, for e.g.)
check your breaker panel at home - you'll see breakers in amps (15A, 20A, 30A, 40A and maybe 100A breakers)
why are you likely to blow a breaker if you run the toaster and the kettle at the same time?
Common usage - a 24,000 Btu air conditioner means what, exactly?
Sized by how many Btu of heat it can remove in one hour
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