Energy 3.1 a Flashcards
What is energy security?
Energy securityis the association between national securityand the availability of natural resources for energyconsumption.
Why is energy important?
Access to cheapenergyhas become essential to the functioning of modern economies.
How is oil protected while getting transported?
Oil has to be transported back to places like the US and UK through ships, and Military bases are formed (usually in the form of naval ships) to protect the oil through military action if needed.
Name the region: Huge energy surplus; inefficient use; energy used as a political weapon.
Russia
Name the region: Has a rapidly growing demand; has high uses of polluting sources such as sulphur and coal; health is negatively impacted as a result; has an impact on global fossil fuel prices .
China and India
Name the region: Is dependent; wastefulness; lack of fossil fuel supply (energy insecurity.)
Europe and USA
Name the region: Energy poverty; dependency on foreign TNCs to exploit supply (Nigeria, Sudan.)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Name the region: Supply security; role of unstable regions in fossil fuel supply; link between nuclear power and weapons.
The Middle-East
Name the region: Has resource reserves; there are questions of developing methods to access these reserves in the Arctic, Antarctic and other sensitive areas.
Canada and Alaska
Which resource had the highest demand in 2002?
Oil
Which resource is predicted to have the highest demand in 2030?
Oil
What is referred to by ‘energy’?
Energy supply, demand & security
Which area is beginning to lose it’s dependency by using unconventional methods to increase it’s own supply?
North America
Currently how many people are living without access to modern energy?
1.3 billion
Where does most of the world’s power still come from?
Carbon
