跟读练习: A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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The End Energy is all around us,
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The End Energy is all around us,
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a physical quantity that follows precise, natural laws.
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Our universe has a finite amount of it.
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It's neither created nor destroyed,
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but can take different forms,
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such as kinetic or potential energy,
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with different properties and formulas to remember.
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For instance, an LED desk lamp's six-watt bulb transfers six joules of light energy per second.
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But let's jump back up into space to look at our planet,
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its systems, and their energy flow.
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Earth's physical systems include the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
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Energy moves in and out of these systems,
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and during any energy transfer between them,
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some is lost to the surroundings,
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as heat, light, sound, vibration, or movement.
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Our planet's energy comes from internal and external sources.
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Geothermal energy from radioactive isotopes and rotational energy from the spinning of the Earth are internal sources of energy,
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while the sun is the major external source,
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driving certain systems like our weather and climate.
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Sunlight warms the surface and atmosphere in varying amounts,
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and this causes convection, producing winds and influencing ocean currents.
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Infrared radiation, radiating out from the warmed surface of the Earth,
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gets trapped by greenhouse gases and further affects the energy flow.
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The sun is also the major source of energy for organisms.
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Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use sunlight to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water,
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powering the biosphere's food chains.
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We release this food energy using chemical reactions, like combustion and respiration.
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At each level in a food chain,
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some energy is stored in newly made chemical structures,
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but most is lost to the surroundings as heat,
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like your body heat, released by your digestion of food.
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Now, as plants are eaten by primary consumers,
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only about 10% of their total energy is passed on to the next level.
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Since energy can only flow in one direction in a food chain,
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from producers on to consumers and decomposers,
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an organism that eats lower on the food chain is more efficient than one higher up.
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So eating producers is the most efficient level at which an animal can get its energy.
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But without continual input of energy to those producers,
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mostly from sunlight, life on Earth as we know it would cease to exist.
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We humans, of course, spend our energy doing a lot of things There's a lot of things besides eating.
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We travel, we build, we power all sorts of technology.
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To do all this, we use sources like fossil fuels,
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coal, oil, and natural gas,
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which contain energy that plants captured from sunlight long ago and stored in the form of carbon.
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When we burn fossil fuels in power plants,
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we release this stored energy to generate electricity.
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To generate electricity, heat from burning fossil fuels is used to power turbines that rotate magnets,
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which in turn create magnetic field changes relative to a coil of wire,
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causing electrons to be induced to flow in the wire.
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Modern civilization depends on our ability to keep powering that flow of electrons.
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Fortunately, we aren't limited to burning non-renewable fossil fuels to generate electricity.
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Electrons can also be induced to flow by direct interaction with light particles,
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which is how a solar cell operates.
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Other renewable energy sources, such as wind,
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water, geothermal, and biofuels, can also be used to generate electricity.
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Global demand for energy is increasing,
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but the planet has limited energy resources to access through a complex energy infrastructure.
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As populations rise alongside rates of industrialization and development,
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our energy decisions grow more and more important.
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Access to energy impacts health,
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education, political power, and socioeconomic status.
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If we improve our energy efficiency,
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we can use our natural resources more responsibly and improve quality of life for everyone.
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常见发音陷阱
在视频中，有一些词汇和发音可能会对学习者造成挑战：
- Geothermal（地热）：此词中的“geo”发音较快，可能会被误读，注意轻声发音。
- Convection（对流）：这个词的“v”音需要练习，以避免发错音。
- Electrons（电子）：注意元音的轻音与重音，尤其在快语速中容易出错。
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