JAPANESE ENERGY RESOURCES
By RON TATUM
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. These are the natrual resources that even Japan possess, and they definately use them to there full capacity. During this age if a country could use it resources effectively and stay out of contact with invading societies they could survive, and this is just what Japan did.
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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. Japan is not resource rich in any one of these materials, however they import them into Japan,and then they use them to create products and then they export them back out to cover the importing costs.P>
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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
Conclusions on Japan (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Energy Sources)
In conclusion Japan is primarily a information age nation in regards to energy resources. I say this because only in the information age, if a nation is resource poor in a few areas can they use their finiacial resources and buy the natural or energy resources that their country needs for survivial. Japan faces the same environmental problems that confront many nations in the world, but since Japan is resource poor, when they do recieve resources from outside nations they are one of the most energy, and ecologically responsible nations because they appreciate the resources for what they are valuable. (ENERGY)
Additional Online Sources on Japanese Energy
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Japanese Energy
- Baker, Donald (1993), Japan's Economic Power: Routledger & Kegan
- Van Dyke, Vernon (1994), Japanese Human Rights and Ethnicity: McGraw Hill Publishing
- Barclay, William (1990), Japan The Land Of The Rising Sun: Penguin Group Publishing
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