AQA Geography Unit 4B Pre-release

I'm confused about the units of tonnes of oil equivalent in P2 and P3??
It says the unit is 'thousand tonnes of oil equivalent'. So for example does this mean the total energy consumption in P2 was 155,000 tonnes of oil equivalent or 155,000,000 tonnes of oil equivalent?

It means 155,000,000 tonnes of oil equivalent. In all honesty it is pretty confusing, no one in my class noticed until the teacher pointed it out.

where? I just went through the entire thread again but i couldn't see the answers to the second paper?

how has everyone prepped for the fieldwork? can anyone give me any help etc because i have no clue...

Q1. 2013 coal dominated, by 2016 overtaken by natural gas and renewables. Production of electricity set to reduce until 2020, linking to number of power stations? by 2020 nuclear station will become operational. 2030 renewables predicted to be largest source, as much as natural gas and nuclear together. could be due to governments drive for wind

Q2. items 1&2. need for better energy security as growing reliant on foreign imports. renewables are unable to meet needs at the moment due to high costs. fracking takes up less space.

Q3. items 3&4 geology is vastly different to USA. uk is more heavily faulted increasing extraction prices. awareness of different tax rates,ownership rights of mineral reserves and investment levels affecting price.

Q4. Adv: reduce imports, research is huge, minimal visual impact, one well above many fractures below, jobs locally, taxes, fill current gap in energy mix.
Dis: disruption, route access, volume of HGVs, takes investment away from development of renewables

Q5. range of methods and strengths/weaknesses. item 5, comment on changes cuadrilla has made after first rejection regarding traffic.

Q6.along the lines of with distance views become more positive. questionnaire will prove/ disprove. open and closed questions with pros and cons explained. bias not intended.

Q7. systematic sampling houses within villages. or random to choose farms. go to busy areas eg train stations and ask opinions. expect to see adv and dis of each method and potential problems with getting a response

That took ages ahah hope it helps

do we take the pre release booklet (unannotated) with us into the exam or will there be a copy there? (Im an external candidate)

Guys HELP :'(

i'm stressing so badly now, just wondering if someone can help me on a few things i'm still confused on though.
Has anyone got any specific comparisons between USA v UK fracking? Just thing about how to answer why USA is much cheaper

Evaluate the methods that Cuadrilla is undertaking to reduce the risks of fracking in the Fylde? What extra information does anyone have to enter level 3, i'm struggling to find many ideas outside the AIB
Thanks guys for any help you give <3

The problem is that despite the UK extracting more natural gas, the actual impact of this upon the global markets will be minute. We lack the volume of gas to really drive down energy bills for consumers, the price of gas is subject to the whims of the market and as supply is maintained at a somewhat constant level by the OPEC countries, then it is demand which has the greatest power to influence the price. It is as simply as you said: supply and demand; unfortunately the actual outputs of gas are not significant enough for energy prices to be driven down when we are (currently) a part of the EU. The chairman of Cuadrilla (Lord Brown) in 2013 publically stated that fracking would not drive down the price of gas or drive down energy prices, despite the claims of Osbourne and Cameron.
Part of the reason for the genuinely significant fall in US energy prices was due to the fact that they keep a 'closed' market for gas and oil - meaning that they export no oil and very little gas xx

I'm still confused at what we need to know for this paper? Just the stuff in the booklet? Or surronding things if so what?
Thanks!