Primer on Volatile Organic Compounds (2005) focuses on Mercury in the Environment: A Primer (2003) provides an major VOC sources that are harmful to human health, explains overview of the mercury cycle, releases to the environment, how they are controlled and highlights government and industry transportation and deposition around the world and the uptake action to reduce the level of VOCs in the a. [...] That is the reason for this primer: to orient the reader to energy systems in Canada and promote a more sophisticated level of energy awareness and literacy among the public, industry stakeholders and government officials. [...] Chapter Four outlines the major energy commodities in use in Canada – fossil fuels, biofuels and electricity – and discusses the energy sources from which they are derived, the technologies used to derive them and the infrastructure used to deliver them to us, the end-users. [...] Energy Sources and Commodities The energy services needed to heat and power homes and building systems, to support industrial processes and to power transportation depend on energy sources and commodities. [...] It is these energy amenities that are valuable to us – they are what we really want – and so they are at the top of ENERGY SERVICES the pyramid and the subject of the next chapter ENERGY COMMODITIES & SOURCES Fossil Fuels Biofuels Electricity 26 CHAPTER ONE - ENERGY SYSTEMS CHAPTER TWO Energy AmenitiesWhat We Really Want In the previous chapter, we learned about energy systems, the basic elements.
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