Category: Lectures

Here is the pdf file for lecture 26, which deals with Wind Power, Biofuels and Dark Energy.

Link to Cape Wind website.

Link to an introduction to Dark Energy

Here is the pdf file for lecture 25, which finishes up solar power and then moves into wind power.

Link to the COP15 – Copenhagen conference on climate change.

Link to the EPA press release on its endangerment finding for greenhouse gasses.

Link to concentrating PV company Cool Earth Solar.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 24 which talks about solar power and the physics of photovoltaic cells.

Factsheet on thin film solar manufacturer First Solar.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 23 completes our discussion of nuclear energy and nuclear power.

Link to New York Times story on hybrid garbage trucks in NYC.

Link to New York Times article on the newly announced CO2 emissions targets of the U.S. and China

Here is the pdf file for lecture 22 focuses on nuclear energy, including the concept of nuclear binding energy.

Link to the website of the COP15 – Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 21, which covers CO2 concentrations, a brief discussion of the impacts of climate change and then starts into nuclear power.

Link to new report on peak oil from Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Link to New York Times article on ocean CO2 uptake

Link to IPCC report “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”

Link to 350.org

Here is the pdf file for lecture 20, which covers the physics and chemistry behind the greenhouse effect, as well as data on global warming and atmospheric GHG concentrations.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 19, which goes through thermal blackbody radiation and a calculation of what Earth’s temperature would be in the absence of the atmosphere.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 18, which focuses on “clean coal” technologies and the greenhouse effect.

Link to the New York Time article about the recycling of nuclear material from Russian weapons to fuel for nuclear power plants.

Link to Green Inc. post on underground coal gasification project.

Here is the pdf file for lecture 17, which focuses mainly on oil reserves and consumption.

Link to Yale Environment 260 feature on Mountaintop Removal Mining