• Class # 1: First class talk
  
  • Syllabus
  
  • Textbook(s)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• # 2: Part I: 1 Motivations
  
  • David
  
  MacKay TED talk
  
  
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  
  
  
  
  
• # 3: Stanford U. Lecture: Powering The Future
  • Robert Laughlin's Energy Course @ Stanford
  • Bioengineering startup company
  
  
  
• # 4: Chapter 1:Introducing
  
  renewable energy
  
  
  
  
  
• # 5: Part I; 2,3,4,5
  
  
  MPG of a Human
  
  
  
  
  • Tim
  
  e Lapse: Huelux 2
  
  
  
• # 6: Chapter # 2: Solar Thermal Energy (a)
  
  •Clips: History of glass: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Clip: A Day Made of Glass
  
  
  
  
• # 7: Part (b) of Chapter # 2
  • Clip: Heat pumps 1
  • Clip: Heat pumps 2
  • Clip: Airconditioners
  
  
• # 8: Part (c) of Chapter # 2
  
• Class # 9: Part I: 6,7 (Sol
  
  ar; Heating & cooling)
  
  
  Class # 10: TEST # 1, Friday 25 Sept
  
• # 11: Chapter # 3: Solar photovoltaics (a)
  
  
  
  
• # 12: Part (b) of Chapter # 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Class # 13: Gaia:
  
  
  • Gaia outline
  • Gia web page
  • Gaia video (10 minute explanation)
  
  • Gaia outline
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Research projects





• Class # 14: Part I: 8,9,10,11,12,13,14

# 15: Chapter # 4: Bioenergy, pt. 1

# 16: Chapter # 4: Bioenergy, pt. 2

• Carbohydrate Man


• Video clip: Thrive (full film, about 2 hours)

• Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegae, J. P. Morgan, Ford
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Class # 17: The Q
  
  uest:
  
  
  ..Chapter 11: Is The World Running Out of Oil?
  ..Chapter 13: The Security of Energy
  
  • Video clip: Modern (from early 1900s) middle-east politics & oil
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Class # 18: New Energy: Fracking
  
  • Video clip: Hydraulic Fracturing
  
  • Video clips (variety): FRACKING
  
  • Video: Military prepares for climate change
  
  •Article: Uncertainity in future of fracking
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Class # 19: Part I: 14-18 (Conclusions Pt.I)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• # 20 Chapter # 5: Hydroelectricity (a)
  
  
  
• # 21 Part (b) of Chapter # 5: Hydroelectricity
  
  Class # 21': TEST # 2 (Ch.3, 4, 5), Friday 23 October
  
  
• Class # 22:Section II: 19,20 (Make a difference)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Video clips: Zeitgeist: 2007, 2008, 2011**, 2014
  • "zeitgeist" = "spirit of the times"
  • Video clips: The '
  
  Venus project': 1) cities, 2) general
  
  • Articles: New low-energy cities in China: A) & B)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• # 23 Chapter # 6: Tidal
  
  Power
  
  • How tides work: 1, 2, 3
  
  
  
  
  • Video clip: Night light from Earth
  
  • Google search: Night light from Earth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• # 24 Chapter # 7: Wind Energy (a)
  
  • Video clip trailer: Windfall (2012)
  
  • Video clip: Can democracy & capitalism coexist??
  
  
  
• # 25 Part (b) of Chapter # 7: Wind Energy
  
  
  
• Class # 26: Section II: 21,22,23
  
  Class # 27: Section II: 24,25,26
  
  
  
  
  
• # 28 Chapter # 8: Wave
  
  Energy
  
  
  
  
  
• Class # 29: Section II: 27,28,29
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # 30 Chapter # 9: Geot
  
  hermal Energy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Class # 31: Part II: 30,31,32

  
  

  •# 32 Chapter # 10: Integrating Renewable Energy
  
  
  
  

• •••••  Class 32': TEST # 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Classes # 33,34,35,36: Project presentations
  
  
  
  
• ERXTRA GOODIE
  
  s:
  
  
  
  'Powering The Future' (film documentary pt. 1, 2, 3, 4)
  
  
  
  

• How are oil and gas fields located?

• How deep can (oil) wells be?

• History of oil extraction, refining, and use?

• Video clip: Anthropocene and water

• Video clip: Atmospheric pollution

• Video clip: If global warming-- why so cold?

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Great Time-Lapse Clips

• Time lapse: DAKOTALAPSE clip SETS: 1 and 2

• Time lapse: Finding Oregon

• Time lapse: The Most Intense Timelapse Ever

• Time lapse: Space And Sky Time Lapses Of 2011

• Time lapse: The Best Nature Videos Of 2011

• Time lapse: Astonishing 'Landscapes: Volume Two'

• Time lapse: Finding Oregon

• TL: Yosemite

• TL: Huelux

• TL: Huelux 2

• TL; Plains Milky Way

• mmmmmmmmmmm