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National curriculum links
KS3, Sc4, Unit 7I - Energy resources.


Main learning objectives
Pupils learn:
to identify some common fuels;
to use the joule as the unit for communicating about energy;
about global disparity in fuel consumption;
to find useful and appropriate ways of representing data.

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DATA SHEET
 

Fuel frenzy?

Comparing the use of fuels in Bangladesh and the UK
These figures are an approximate picture of the main different fuels used per person in Bangladesh and the UK. The amounts are shown in gigajoules. The joule is the unit used for energy – a megajoule is one million (1,000,000) joules.
TYPE OF FUEL
COUNTRY
MEGAJOULES PER PERSON PER YEAR
Biomass and waste
E.g. solids and gasses from wood, dung, crop residues and rubbish.
 Biomass Bangladesh
4.61
UK
1334

 

 Gas
Bangladesh
2.03
Natural gas
UK
64189
  Petroleum
Bangladesh
0.33
Petroleum
E.g. petrol, diesel and paraffin.
UK
53359
Coal
 Coal
Bangladesh
0.01
 
UK
25772
Draw two bar charts – one showing a Bangladeshi person’s fuel consumption by type and one showing a British person’s fuel consumption by type. Have a go at drawing a chart showing the Bangladeshi person’s total consumption next to the British person’s total consumption. What makes this difficult? Can you find a way to do it? Sources: DTI 2002,
EarthTrends 2002,
National statistics.gov 2004,
Oxfam 2004.

 

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