{"id":8650,"date":"2022-08-04T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T02:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?page_id=8650"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:27:28","slug":"u3-renewableenergy-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/science-10\/unit-3-energy-add-this-to-science-10\/u3-renewableenergy-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"U3:  RenewableEnergy Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Part 1: \u00a0Global<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Renewable Energy Case Studies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800080;\">U3: \u00a0Energy Transformations<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJxB01HMcwU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Student Learning Activity<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2022\/08\/RenewableEnergyVFTTeacherPacket_NL.pdf\">RenewableEnergyVFTTeacherPacket_NL<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Part 2: Local<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pembina.org\/pub\/bc-clean-energy-plan\">B.C. is a clean electricity powerhouse, with more than 98 per cent of electricity coming from renewable sources.<\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>However, fossil fuels still satisfy the majority of B.C.\u2019s overall energy needs; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>B.C. uses four times as much energy from fossil fuels as from clean electricity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The province\u2019s climate and energy strategy, CleanBC, aims to shift B.C. from an economy powered by oil and gas to one increasingly powered by clean energy. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Government projections suggest that clean energy consumption will increase by about 40 per cent by 2030 under this plan, while fossil fuel use will decrease by about 15 per cent. However, CleanBC is projected to get B.C. only 75 per cent of the way to its 2030 climate target.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">To achieve our full commitments, B.C. will need to increase the absolute clean energy mix while further decreasing the use of fossil fuels \u2014 and do so without locking the province into a particular energy or policy pathway that could prevent B.C. from meeting 2040 and 2050 targets.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Renewable Energy Case Studies &#8211; BC<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thenarwhal.ca\/topics\/site-c-dam-bc\/\"><strong>Site C Dam &#8211; Narwhal<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/cleanenergybc.org\"><strong>CleanEnergy BC<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Part 3:<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Renewable Energy Project &#8211; BC<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3>Part 4:<\/h3>\n<h1>Climate Justice<\/h1>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct4sdm\"><strong>Science in Action_Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>What is this episode about:<\/p>\n<div>\n<h1 class=\"no-margin\">Particle physics v climate change<\/h1>\n<div class=\"gamma\">\n<div class=\"\"><a class=\"context__item\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p002vsnb\">Science In Action<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9701 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.12.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.12.37-PM.png 1024w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.12.37-PM-300x178.png 300w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.12.37-PM-768x456.png 768w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.12.37-PM-800x475.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"grid 2\/3@bpw 3\/4@bpe\">\n<div class=\"episode-panel__intro\">\n<div class=\"map__intro__synopsis centi\">\n<div class=\"synopsis-toggle text--prose\">\n<div class=\"synopsis-toggle__short\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Should CERN be spending $17 billion on a new atom smasher whilst we face, climate change, the most pressing crisis of our time? Materials-turned environmental scientist Mark Miodownik and CERN physicist Kate Shaw debate the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"synopsis-toggle__long\">\n<p>One of the issues Mark argues more people should be tackling are the climate change driven forest fires which recently ravaged Chile and killed more than 100 people. Chilean climate scientist Raul Cordero discusses the factors which led to the devastating fires.<\/p>\n<p>And Nasa physicist and oceanographer Susanne Craig explains their freshly launched satellite PACE, which hopes to get a better picture of our changing oceans and use this information to tackle climate change. A quest Nasa manages to achieve whilst also trying to answer the big questions about our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Roland Pease<br \/>\nProducer: Ella Hubber<br \/>\nProduction co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Firefighters work at the Botanical Garden after a forest fire in Vi\u00f1a del Mar, Chile, 4 February, 2024. Credit: Javier Torres\/AFP)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Learning Activities:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceinschool.org\/article\/2008\/climate-2\/\"><strong>Science in School<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9704 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1914\" height=\"1180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM.png 1914w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM-300x185.png 300w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM-1024x631.png 1024w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM-768x473.png 768w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM-1536x947.png 1536w, http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-16-at-2.26.59-PM-800x493.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1914px) 100vw, 1914px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1: \u00a0Global Renewable Energy Case Studies U3: \u00a0Energy Transformations Student Learning Activity RenewableEnergyVFTTeacherPacket_NL Part 2: Local B.C. is a clean electricity powerhouse, with more than 98 per cent of electricity coming from renewable sources. However, fossil fuels still satisfy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/science-10\/unit-3-energy-add-this-to-science-10\/u3-renewableenergy-assignment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"parent":6767,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650\/revisions\/9705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}