{"id":27772,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/week-7-lab"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:08:49","slug":"week-7-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/week-7-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil usage = _____ barrels &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coal usage = ______ tons &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Natural gas usage = ____ tcf <\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; (25 points)There are approximately 315 million people living in the U.S.&nbsp; If every one of them used as much fossil fuel for these processes, how much usage would we have in the U.S. per day and per year?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oil usage\/day&nbsp; ____________&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Oil usage\/year ____________<\/p>\n<p>Coal usage\/day ___________&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coal usage\/year ___________<\/p>\n<p>Natural gas usage\/day ___________ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Natural gas usage\/year ___________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;3.&nbsp; (30 points)Estimate the number of miles that you travel by car each year for commuting purposes.&nbsp; Go back to the calculator and replace your car miles with either city bus or train\/subway miles (depending upon what is available to you).&nbsp; If you don\u2019t have public transportation in your area, \u201cpretend\u201d you do. By how much did your fossil fuel usage change?&nbsp; Would you make this change?&nbsp; Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; 4.&nbsp; (30 points)It is estimated that the average home can save about 1,000 kwhr of electricity by replacing all of the incandescent light bulbs in the home with fluorescent ones.&nbsp; The average cost of doing this is $200, but it yields about $80 in savings each year.&nbsp; What would such a change to your fossil fuel usage?&nbsp; Would you make such a change?&nbsp; Why or why not?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil usage = _____ barrels &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coal usage = ______ tons &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Natural gas usage = ____ tcf 2.&nbsp; (25 points)There are approximately 315 million people living in the U.S.&nbsp; If every one of them used as much fossil fuel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/week-7-lab\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}