The Energy Challenge!
You and your classmates work for a very well known company called OzEnergy Inc, an environmental research and engineering centre. You have just received an urgent email from the Minister of Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water, Senator Penny Wong, requesting your companies services for a highly important, top secret task. Please read the email below from Senator Penny Wong to find out what your task is all about, but please know that once you read the email, this top secret task MUST be completed!
Dear OzEnergy Inc.
Australia needs your help! We have just received the news that by the year 2020, there will no longer be any fossil fuels left on Earth to produce the energy needed to survive! Fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas were expected to run out in the next 40 - 60 years and coal 400 years, however, we are using up these fossil fuels at such an alarming rate, that a recalculation was conducted leaving us with ten years to come up with an alternative energy source to fuel our Earth!
We have contacted your company, OzEnergy Inc. in the hope that your specialist team of researchers and engineers could find an alternative energy source that will be able to fuel the world's population by the year 2020. We need you to research the available alternative energy sources, working out which one is the most suitable with regards to efficiency, effectiveness and environmental impact. You will need to prepare a top secret report and propose your findings to all of the world's leaders, including our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and the USA's President, Barrack Obama at Canberra's Parliament House next month.
We wish you all the best in your research and please remember.............the world is counting on YOU!!!!!!!!
Kind Regards,
Senator the Hon. Penny Wong
Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water
Australia needs your help! We have just received the news that by the year 2020, there will no longer be any fossil fuels left on Earth to produce the energy needed to survive! Fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas were expected to run out in the next 40 - 60 years and coal 400 years, however, we are using up these fossil fuels at such an alarming rate, that a recalculation was conducted leaving us with ten years to come up with an alternative energy source to fuel our Earth!
We have contacted your company, OzEnergy Inc. in the hope that your specialist team of researchers and engineers could find an alternative energy source that will be able to fuel the world's population by the year 2020. We need you to research the available alternative energy sources, working out which one is the most suitable with regards to efficiency, effectiveness and environmental impact. You will need to prepare a top secret report and propose your findings to all of the world's leaders, including our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and the USA's President, Barrack Obama at Canberra's Parliament House next month.
We wish you all the best in your research and please remember.............the world is counting on YOU!!!!!!!!
Kind Regards,
Senator the Hon. Penny Wong
Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water