Energy Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.04.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Content
  5. Learning Strategies
  6. Class Activities
  7. Appendix
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes

Solar and Wind and Batteries, Oh My!

Joseph Earl Parrett

Published September 2016

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Notes

  1. Obama, Barrack. “2nd Inaugural Address.” Speech, Washington D.C., January 21, 2013
  2. Sutherland, Tim. “Is Education the Fuel We Need for a Renewable Future?” RenewableEnergyWorld.com. www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2012/03/is-education-the-fuel-we-need-fir-a-renewable-future.html (accessed June 22, 2016)
  3. Merrian-Webster.com. www.meriiam-webster.com/dictionary/energy (accessed June 22, 2016)
  4. Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, 347.
  5. Ibid., 348.
  6. Solarschools.net. www.solarschools.net/resources/stuff/how_electricity_is_made.aspx (accessed July 15, 2016)
  7. Census.gov. www.census.gov (accessed July 17, 2016)
  8. Instituteforenergyresearch.org. www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/eia-forecast-fossil-fuels-remain-dominant-energy-source/ (accessed July 16, 2016)
  9. Carter, Jimmy. “Proposed Energy Policy.” Speech, Washington D.C., April 18, 1977
  10. Ibid.
  11. Yergin, The Quest, 426.
  12. Climate.nasa.gov. www.climate.nasa.gov (accessed July 16, 2016)
  13. Yergin, The Quest, 426.
  14. US Geological Survey.gov. www2.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleice.html (accessed July 16, 2016)
  15. Climate.nasa.gov. (accessed July 16, 2016)
  16. Ibid.
  17. ClimateCentral.org. www.sealevel.climatecentral.org/basics (accessed July 16, 2016)
  18. USAToday.com. usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/2005-09-09-katrina-damage_x.htm (accessed July 17, 2016)
  19. USAToday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/29/sandy-anniversary-facts-devastation/3305985/ (accessed July17,2016)
  20. Lewis, Nate. “Powering the Planet”. 2007. Presentation http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html
  21. David McKay, Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air, 161.
  22. Ibid.
  23. Ibid., 164.
  24. Lewis, Nate. “Powering the Planet”. 2007. Presentation http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html
  25. Instituteforenergyresearch.org. www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/topics/encyclopedia/solar (accessed July 16, 2016)
  26. Yergin, The Quest, 573.
  27. Alexander Ochs, Sustainable Energy Roadmaps: Guiding the Global Shift to Domestic Renewables, 21.
  28. Lewis, Nate. “Powering the Planet”. 2007. Presentation http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy.html
  29. Instituteforenergyresearch.org. www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/topics/encyclopedia/wind/ (accessed July 16, 2016)
  30. American Wind Energy Association. www.awea.org/mediacenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber=6184 (accessed July 16, 2016)
  31. Abigail R Gehring, Back to Basics 3rd Edt., 82.
  32. Greenfacts.org. www.greenfacts.org/en/biofuels/figtableboxes/biofuel-brazil.htm (accessed July 17, 2016)

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