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Educational DVD aimed at KS 3-5. Fossil Fuels and nuclear energy still account for over 60% of the UK’s electricity generation and in some countries their use is even on the rise. As well as containing...
Documents how the pH balance of the oceans has changed dramatically since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in acidification. With near unanimity, scientists now agree that the...
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships...
Wind power is a multimillion dollar global industry, which is growing at the rate of 40% per year. As the new millennium begins with wind energy emerging as a viable alternative to power supplied by coal and...
Aims to link issues in science, technology, society and the environment, and begins with a 10-minute INSET segment. Looks at the unprecedented demand for energy in the industrialised world, and considers the...
Video-based pack looking at energy from the standpoint of a need for change. Begins with some predictions of future world energy consumption and their impossible consequences and goes on to explore...
Describes how the sun’s energy is converted into chemical energy by the endothermic photosynthesis reaction and stored in plants, coal and oil. Shows various methods of recovering that energy, illustrating...
One quarter of the world’s population uses three quarters of the world’s fossil fuels. There are competing pressures in the industrialised societies on the need to control energy use and to satisfy...
With case studies from the US, the UK, China and India, this title asks how important coal, gas and nuclear will be in the future global energy mix. The programme looks at what is being done to clean up...
This DVD examines the properties and uses of crude oil. It introduces the chemical compounds that exist in crude oil and shows how it is refined into many of the fuels and products used in modern society....
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