Monday
Please make a USA wealth graph where the x-axis is each person in the USA ordered from poorest to richest, and the y-axis is how much money they have. That is if everyone had $200,000, it would look like the one on the left, and if each person had $10 more than the person before, it would look like the one on the right with the poorest person having nothing and the richest person having $3.2 billion. Please make two graphs: graph what you think the USA really looks like, and make a graph of how you think the USA would ideally look.- Only after you’ve done the above, please see Moyers: USA wealth gap
- Please watch Conversion Efficiency with Slides (from Heat Engines Video)
- Look up and read about cogeneration. What does it mean?
Wednesday:
- Please watch Carbon Intensity, and Carbon Intensity Slides.
- Please have a look at this article about China’s decreasing carbon intensity to get a feel about how we use these terms… and see what China is doing.
- Please read this article about the costs of treating coal miners with black lung. Consider the question: Is coal power cheap? What are some of the “external costs” or “externalities” (expect test questions on this)? How does society pay these external costs? How do you think society should pay these costs? Trump has promised to repeal regulations on corporations. How does this story highlight this repealing of regulations?
Friday: