According to Graetz in The End of Energy, the “United States with only 4 percent

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According to Graetz in The End of Energy, the “United States with only 4 percent of the world’s population consumes 25% of the energy the world uses annually while 1.6 billion people around the world still have no electricity” (p. 174). Estimate your household greenhouse gas emissions, click here to use the Environmental Protection Agency’s Household Emissions Calculator.

http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

Summarize your results then tell us what can you do to alleviate the energy crisis?

For your second post, respond to another classmate's post.

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The link which you have provided was taking a long time to load so that i can not calculate my house hold carbon emission, Even though i can recommend some sollutions and precautions which can help to control this Environmental cause.

1. Move Towards Renewable Resources: Much of the industrial age was created using
fossil fuels, but there is also known technology that uses other types of renewable energies – such as
steam, solar and wind. The major concern isn’t so much that we will run out of
gas or oil, but that the use of coal is going to continue to pollute the atmosphere
and destroy other natural resources in the process of mining the coal that it has to
be replaced as an energy source.

2. Buy Energy Efficient products: Replace traditional bulbs with CFL’s and LED’s.
They use less watts of electricity and last longer. If millions of people across the globe
use LED’s and CFL’s for residential and commercial purposes, the demand for energy can go down and an energy crisis can be averted.

3. Driving vehicals in efficient manner: This was the important cause that many people may not have idea regarding fuel consumption, proper gear drive is very important according to the speed which can utilize more fuel. Another best sollution is to switch of the engine at Traffic signal junction.

4. Better usage of house hold products: Air conditioner's and freezers are all the source for emitting Chloro Floro Hydro Carbons so the better usage of these devices may decrease the amount of green house gases emission. It's better to use medium temperature rate in Air conditioners which can be helpful for environment.

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