JAPANESE ENERGY RESOURCES
By Suzanne Tatikian
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Energy Resources
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Agricultural Age Energy Sources:
Renewable energy sources: solar, wind, water, humans/slavery, animals, etc.
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Industrial Age Energy Sources:
Non-renewable, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal) and nuclear fission (uranium and plutonium fuels). These fuels pollute more, and once extracted from the earth, they are gone.
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Information Age Energy Sources:
Eventual return (once fossil fuels are exhausted) to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, ocean thermal, and biomass)--as in agricultural age, but using more sophisticated technologies to tap these energy sources; also nuclear fusion (from fusing of hydrogen atoms in water) once the technology is perfected in future; lag in transition to these alternative energy sources--perhaps into next age.
Information/Data on Japanese Energy Sources
Japan uses their rivers for irrigation. They use hydroelectric power from rivers as energy as well as thermal plant. However the largest single energy source is oil, so Japan is in the second stage as far as energy sources, but their looking for third stage sources.
Conclusions on Japan (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Energy Sources)
Japan is primarily a industrial age country as far a s energy sources, since Japan's prime energy source is oil.
Additional Online Sources on Japanese Energy
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