2601 FINAL EXAM Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) human needs - Correct Answers ✅Energy Forms...Thermal, mechanical, electrical We use energy for...-water, food, shelter
Consequences of disparity: uncomfortable conditions, poor
ventilation, insecurity, risk of structural failure Reducing energy demand...
-Water: collection, treatment, distribution
-Food: grow organic, less meat, buy local, eat fresh
-Shelter: buy local, energy-efficiency, green building,
occupancy energy evaluation matrix - Correct Answers
✅ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:
-air pollution -GHG -Ecosystem destruction -Water use and pollution -land use and pollution -hazardous waste 1 / 3
2601 FINAL EXAM Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) -noise -aesthetics
PERFORMANCE:
-Cost-effective -Availability -Transportability -Energy density -Sustainable key environmental impacts - Correct Answers ✅-
greenhouse gases: CO2 and CH4
-air pollution: harmful emissions, produced during extraction,
processing or use
-water use & pollution: how much water? harmful to
ecosystems?
-ecosystem destruction: previous ecosystem gone or unstable
-land use & pollution: Degrading rather than eliminating
habitat 2 / 3
2601 FINAL EXAM Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
-hazardous waste: toxic, not natural (fracking, slurry ponds,
nuclear)
Other (noise, aesthetics): how loud, how often, does it
obstruct views or change property value?
Performance criteria - Correct Answers ✅availability: Ease
of extraction and processing
transportability: how easily/safe it can be moved
cost effective: relative to today's economy
sustainable: inexhaustible human timeline
Clean Air Act - Correct Answers ✅Ozone, Particulate matter, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen oxides, Sulfur dioxide, Lead -emissions of the six principal air pollutants have decreased by more than 41% Clean Water Act - Correct Answers ✅quality standards for the treated water being discharged back into surface waters.
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