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ENERGY CONSERVATION: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS

Energy Conservation: Strategies and Solutions
Troy Snell
University of Phoenix

SCI 275 Environmental Science

Juan Brown

04/18/2009

Abstract

Energy conservation has taken first place throughout many countries in the world. The sustainability of this world’s population using our current non-renewable resources is bleak. The ability for the United States to develop and implement various strategies to ensure energy conservation is vital to our environment and population. A comprehensive examination of the current strategies as well an assessment of innovative strategies not yet implemented will be the focus of this mitigation plan’s solution.

Energy Conservation; Strategies and Solutions

The Australian government implemented a law in 2007 banning the sale of incandescent light bulbs to the general public. This law posed for completion in 2010 will ensure that all Australian citizens are doing their part for energy conservation. In the place of incandescent bulbs will be a much more energy efficient florescent bulb (“Light’s Out”, 2007).
Legislation, as mentioned above, is just one example of energy conscientious countries efforts to curb their over use of non-renewable resources. The dependence of many countries on non-renewable resources is staggering; if we continue to use these resources until exhaustion we will face dire environmental and economic problems. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2007 our country consumed 40.6 quadrillion Btu’s in the creation of electric power ' a larger stake than that of the commercial sector or the residential sector (Energy Information Administration, 2007). Statistics like these speak volumes regarding the role conservation needs to play within our country, especially in conjunction with the overuse of electric power. Additionally, the over all use of non-renewable fossil fuels such as petroleum still maintains to be the largest...