Energy Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.04.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Background
  5. Fossil Fuels and Energy Use
  6. Renewable Energy
  7. Solar
  8. Wind
  9. Hydroelectric
  10. Geothermal
  11. Strategies
  12. Activities
  13. Endnotes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Teacher Resources
  16. Appendix

My Future, My Home: Building a Greener House for Tomorrow

Melissa Duran

Published September 2019

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Endnotes

  1. MacKay, David J. C. Sustainable Energy - without the Hot Air. Cambridge: UIT Cambridge, 2013, 8.
  2. Ibid., 5.
  3. Santa Clara County Office of Education for the California Department of Education, Hoover Middle School.  “School Accountability Report Card. Accessed July 8, 2019. www.sarconline.org/SarcPdfs/Temp/43696666062111.pdf.
  4. "San Jose Unified School District." Ed. Accessed July 8, 2019. http://www.ed-data.org/district/Santa-Clara/San-Jose-Unified.
  5. Silver, Jerry. Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008, 135.
  6. "Fossil." Energy.gov. Accessed July 10, 2019. http://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/fossil.
  7. Armaroli, Nicola, and Vincenzo Balzani. Energy for a Sustainable World: From the Oil Age to a Sun-powered Future. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2011, 5.
  8. Ibid., 7.
  9. Ibid., 7.
  10. Yergin, Daniel. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. New York: Penguin, 2012.
  11. “Where Greenhouse Gases Come From.” Energy Explained, Your Guide to Understanding Energy – Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 27, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=environment_where_ghg_come_from.
  12. Archer, David. The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2016, 110. 
  13. Ibid., 16.
  14. Silver, Jerry. Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008, 130.
  15. Ibid., 133.
  16. Team, ESRL Web. "NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division - THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI)." NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. October 01, 2005. Accessed July 14, 2019. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html.
  17. Silver, Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified, 135.
  18. “Why Volcanoes Are Not Driving Climate Change.” Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. January 18, 2019. Accessed July 27, 2019. http://www.caryinstitute.org/discover-eclogy/podcasts/why-volcanoes-are-not-driving-climate-change.
  19. Archer, The Long Thaw, 3.
  20. "Evidence." NASA. Accessed July 12, 2019. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.
  21. Archer, The Long Thaw, Ch. 8-9.
  22. Rahmstorf, Stefan. "Thermohaline Circulation: The Current Climate." Nature421, no. 6924 (2003): 699. doi:10.1038/421699a.
  23. Samenow, Jason. "Planet Is Entering 'new Climate Regime' with 'extraordinary' Heat Waves Intensified by Global Warming, Study Says." The Washington Post. June 11, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019.
  24. Vogel, M.m., J. Zscheischler, R. Wartenburger, D. Dee, and S.i. Seneviratne. "Concurrent 2018 Hot Extremes across Northern Hemisphere Due to Human‐induced Climate Change." Earth’s Future, 2019. doi:10.1029/2019ef001189, accessed June 24, 1019.
  25. Press, Associated. "Last Year's Wildfires Were the Most Expensive in California History." The Guardian. May 08, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/08/california-2018-wildfires-most-expensive.
  26. "Arctic Sea Ice Minimum." NASA. Accessed June 24, 2019. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/.
  27. Samenow, Jason. "Temperatures Leap 40 Degrees above Normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland Ice Sheet See Record June Melting." The Washington Post. June 14, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019.
  28. "Evidence." NASA. Accessed July 12, 2019. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.
  29. Brudvig, Gary.  Energy Sciences lecture, Yale University, May 3, 2019. 
  30. Yergin,. The Quest, 528.
  31. Service, Robert. "Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels off the Grid." Science, 2019. doi:10.1126/science.aay7094.
  32. Silver, Global Warming and Climate Change Demystified, 198.
  33. Ibid., 202.
  34. "Solar Thermal." Solar Thermal | Student Energy. Accessed July 11, 2019. http://www.studentenergy.org/topics/solar-thermal.
  35. Brudvig, Gary.  Energy Sciences lecture, Yale University, July 10-11, 2019.
  36. "California's Solar Energy Overload." IER. July 10, 2017. Accessed July 11, 2019. http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/californias-solar-energy-overload.
  37. Service, Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar.
  38. Da Rosa, Aldo. Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, Academic Press, 2013, 723-24.
  39. Yergin, The Quest, 596.
  40. "About Wind." Wind Solar Alliance. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://windsolaralliance.org/wind.
  41. "U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis." Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Accessed July 12, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy.
  42. Koch, Wendy. "Wind Turbines Kill Fewer Birds than Do Cats, Cell Towers." USA Today. September 15, 2014. Accessed July 13, 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/15/wind-turbines-kill-fewer-birds-than-cell-towers-cats/15683843/.
  43. Brudvig, Gary.  Energy Sciences lecture, Yale University, July 12, 2019.
  44. Armaroli, Nicola, and Vincenzo Balzani. Energy for a Sustainable World: From the Oil Age to a Sun-powered Future. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2011., pg. 231
  45. Ibid., 231.
  46. Ibid., 231.
  47. Ibid., 231.
  48. Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher Morris, in Handbook of Energy Volume II: Chronologies, Top Ten Lists, and Word Clouds, 2014, Pages 303-307.
  49. "Use of Geothermal Energy." Use of Geothermal Energy - Energy Explained, Your Guide To Understanding Energy - Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 12, 2019. http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=geothermal_use.
  50. Brudvig, Gary.  Energy Sciences lecture, Yale University, July 12, 2019.

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