Description
After you have read all of the materials associated with this week’s topic and watched the recommended videos (they are long but very informative), you probably have formulated your personal opinion about the following issue: is the international community making progress in addressing the problem of oil and gas shortages?
For this discussion, express your opinion from one of these sides:
“Yes, the global community is making progress in addressing the problem of an energy shortage” or
“No, it is not making progress”.
Please provide arguments explaining your position.
If both opinions are present in the discussion, we will have a real debate on the issue of the energy industry.
Please remember that all submitted posts: essays, discussion forum and journal reflection posts you can use in your Final Research paper. Please save all your posts.
Discussion Expectations
Visit the Forum site at least twice a week during two different days of this week and make a minimum of two direct responses to your peers. The responses should be well thought out and present relative information that has not already been posted.
Post a minimum of two responses to your peers and show where you agree or disagree with their analysis and explain why. Be sure your posts are relative and succinct.
As I read each week’s posts, I will be looking at the content of the posting as well as the overall subject matter. I am looking for quality of the post vs. the quantity of words of your posts.
Initial Post due Thursday 11:59pm
Responses due Sunday 11:59pm
READINGS
Hafner, Manfred, et al. Handbook of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa : Challenges and Opportunities. Claeys & Casteels Law Publishers, 2019. EBSCOhost
Chapter 2: What Development Model for Oil and Gas Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (I will upload it later)
Hafher, Manfred, et al. The Future of European Gas Markets : Balancing Act Between Decarbonisations and Security of Supply.
Part 2: The Supply Side: New Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
VIDEOS
Canada’s Oil Sands (2:26)
The oil sands are changing the economic, environmental, & social make-up of Canada. The industry is planning to triple production. But is it time for a reality check?
How We Turn Solar Energy into Electricity
Solar panels are becoming cheaper and more efficient. So how exactly do they work? This video shows you how.
The Future of Energy?
Today, we consume a truly vast amount of energy – with demand continuing to skyrocket at an alarming rate. We know that producing this energy has significant environmental impacts and emitting so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere could cause catastrophic climate change. In this short video, three academics look at wind power, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and material efficiency as examples of how we can cut our C02 emissions. They suggest that we must act now in order to avoid the serious risks of man-made global warming, one of our greatest challenges in the 21st century.
How Nuclear Power Plants Work / Nuclear Energy (Animation)
This animation explains nuclear power plants in detail and how they work.
