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Argue your case/reflections:
1. Your state’s sole nuclear power plant is shutting down, and you are attending a hearing on sources of replacement power. Options on the table include building a coal-fired plant or a combined-cycle gas plant. Make your choice and formulate an
argument to defend it. (use the book chapters on coal and Nuclear energy as needed)
2. Your friend dismisses either a Carbon tax or Cap-and-trade scheme as just another example of government taking the people’s hard-earned money. How do respond?
3. Read the “Energy Extra” (pages 97-98) and share your views on fracking. Fracking a single natural gas well utilizes 20 million liters of water.
In a typical single-family residence, how long this water will last?
4. Evaluate indirect (forest) sequestration, and other direct CO2 sequestration techniques mentioned in the textbook (pages 142-145) in terms of cost etc.
