Transcript Industrial - Bluffton University

CTF Presentation on Oil
and Metal Depletion
Amy Purkey, Nancy Stirn, Mike
Anthony, Aaron Darlington, David
Patch
Total Material
Requirement (TMR) in
the 1997 report
Japan's TMR = 45 tons per person per year
Germany, Holland, United States TMR = 80
tons per person per year.
Depletion of Natural
Resources?
 What is “Resource Depletion?”
 Should we be concern?
Three Main Types of Fossil
Fuels
 Coal
 Oil
 Natural Gas
Metal
Weight of
Ore KMT
Weight of
Metal KMT
Mine & Mill
Waste
Aluminum
97,660
36,400
61,260
Copper
750,000
8,450
740,000
Iron
953,000
564,400
390,000
Uranium
1,900,000
36
1,900,000
Lead
101,000
3,380
98,000
World Production of some Metals and mine waste in 1000 metric
tonnes (KMT) (adapted from Ayres 1996)
Copper
Scheme of copper metal flow from mine to entry into manufacturing process
Aluminum flowchart
 For every barrel we produce, we use three
 84 million barrels of oil are used in a day,
30 billion per year
 69% of all petroleum in 1999 was used for
transportation
Oil Production Peak
 Production Peak: a country produces
the most oil it can produce in a year
and then production declines from
then on
 50 Countries have passed their oil
production peak
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USA-1970
Indonesia- 1977
Russia-1987
UK-1999
 Prices will increase:
 One cent increase in price per gallon of diesel
fuel equals a $350,000,000 increase in costs
per year for the trucking industry
 Products made from Oil:
 Telephones, crayons, deodorant, rubbing
alcohol, carpets, hearing aids, ammonia,
eyeglasses, lifejackets, toothpaste, sports car
bodies, aspirin, linoleum, boats, etc.
The EBI
Energy and Biodiversity Initiative
What is the EBI?
 The EBI is a partnership of four energy
companies and five conservation
organizations.
 Recently, the EBI came out with a
collaborative report that, among other
things, details how the energy industry
can work together with society to create a
better future.
Benefits of maintaining biodiversity in the energy industry:
•Biodiversity is fundamental to human wellfare and economic
development by maintaining the ecological processes upon which
our survival depends.
•Broad-scale ecological systems provide services such as clean
air and fresh water.
•Direct benefits from biodiversity come from the supply of goods
or products - such as food, timber, clothing materials, and
medicine.
•Everyone depends on biodiversity, but the poorest people
(especially the rural poor) most directly depend on the products
of a healthy ecosystem. Having a healthy ecosystem while
sustaining advances in the energy industry, therefore, benefits the
poor as well as the wealthy.
 “Biodiversity is the human
species’ most valuable but
least appreciated
resource. The perilous
future facing nature is of
our own making. But the
solution is also within our
grasp. Progress towards
global conservation will
pick up or falter
depending on cooperation
among government,
science and technology,
and the private sector.”
- Edward O. Wilson, Ph. D.
Pellegrino University
Research Professor,
Harvard University
Industrial
 Smart Building Practices
 Aluminum holds twice as much as steel
 Green Building Practices
 “Deconstruction” instead of “Demolition”
 22% of waste stream from demolition
materials
RECYCLE
 Steel
 60% less energy to make steel from
recycled materials than from iron ore
 Easily sorted from other materials
 Can be recycled over and over without
losing quality or strength
RECYCLE
 Aluminum
 Recycling four aluminum cans saves as much as
energy as the energy in one cup of gas
 54 billion cans recycled in 2003, saved the energy
equivalent of 15 million barrels of oil
 Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy
to run your TV for three hours
 Can be recycled over and over without losing quality
and strength
What Can I Do?
•Save Energy
•Save Gas
•Reduce Waste
•Join a Group
What about Industries?
 Used Oil
 Cut back on Energy
 What the Leaders
have to say.
Questions?