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CHEM8069 Sustainable Energy and Society Online Resources
This page provides a wide range of links to online resources related to the topic of energy in our society. The links range from basic background to specialized topics related to the development of new sustainable energy sources. Please check out the video listing at the end of this page -- they are all entertaining and interesting. Any downloadable materials are only for use by the students in this course.

Energy basics

  • EIA: Excellent source of information
  • EIA U.S. energy explained
  • EIA U.S. energy information in brief
  • EIA U.S. energy information FAQs
  • EIA electricity use by region
  • Outline of energy
  • Wiki Energy
  • U.S. electricity generation
  • Energy in the U.S.
  • Energy development
  • Resource global network
  • Peak energy?
  • EIA predicted energy consumption
  • World population
  • The world in 50 years?
  • Short YouTube video on energy
  • Short YouTube video on energy waste
  • Energy 101 course from UTexas
  • Energy 101 course videos
  • International energy agency
  • World energy council
  • European Union energy
  • European environment agency
  • British Petroleum
  • United Nations development programs
  • EarthTrends
  • IndexMundi
  • Global footprint
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • World Watch
  • Energy efficiencies for various modes of transportation
  • Pie chart of U.S. spending
  • Another pie chart of U.S. spending (discretionary)
  • Another pie chart of U.S. spending (mandatory)
  • Energy consumption by appliance
  • More energy consumption by appliance
  • U.S. energy consumption stats
  • Energy return on investment (EROI)
  • More on EROI by energy type
  • Cost of electricity around the world
  • DOE Podcast Direct Current
  • Bill Gates on energy
  • Elon Musk on energy


    • Quantitative reasoning, estimation, learning

  • Quantitative reasoning
  • Estimation
  • Dimensional Analysis
  • Math
  • Active learning
  • Flipped1
  • Flipped2
  • Flipped3
  • Flipped4
  • Kahn
  • Great story on effective learning: Science of Smart
  • Learning and earning, the importance of lifelong learning


    • Concepts and units

  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Second law of thermodynamics
  • Wiki Energy
  • Units
  • Energy Units


    • The history of energy and growth of modern electricity

  • EIA electricity
  • Energy history
  • Energy consumption history in U.S.
  • More energy history
  • Electricity
  • Tesla
  • Tesla documentary
  • Edison
  • AC and DC
  • Electric transmission
  • Electric grid
  • Electric grid transmission, supergrids, China leads
  • Bill Jensen paper on six chemists involved in energy science


    • Fossil fuels

  • Fossil Fuel
  • Geology of Fossil Fuels
  • Where did they come from?
  • How long can you charge an iPhone on a gallon of gas?
  • Coal
  • Clean coal
  • Natural gas
  • Petroleum
  • How much energy to produce a gallon of gas?
  • OPEC
  • Natural Gas
  • World Coal
  • Peak Oil
  • More Peak Oil
  • Big Oil
  • Oil shale economics
  • Tar sands


    • When will we run out of fossil fuels?

  • How much coal is left?
  • How much natural gas is left?
  • EIA enough oil?
  • Run out of oil?
  • Never run out
  • 53.3 years
  • Not running out
  • 100 years of natural gas
  • How long?
  • End of fossil fuels
  • When will we run out?
  • Peak oil or peak demand?


    • Impacts of fossil fuels

  • Global warming
  • Fracking
  • Fracking fallacy
  • Climate change
  • Climate change science
  • Taming climate change
  • CO2 trends
  • Global warming hiatus
  • Is climate science settled?
  • Modeling climate change
  • Losing wildlife
  • Climage change and technology
  • Earth's temperature history
  • More recent earth's temperature history
  • More on climate history
  • Election and Keystone pipeline
  • New chair of senate energy committee on climate change
  • Denying problems
  • Freeman Dyson heretical science talk
  • Fossil fuel industry and renewable energy
  • Volkswagon emissions violations 2015
  • TED talks on global warming
  • TED talks on climate change
  • Talk on sun's effect on climate
  • Natl Geo show on climate change
  • Coal in China


    • Renewable/Sustainable

  • EIA renewable home
  • Renewable
  • Sustainable
  • Sustainability
  • Computational sustainability
  • Efficient energy use
  • Sustainable chemistry
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Sustainability at universities, MIT conference
  • Renewable beats coal
  • Clean energy revolution in U.S.?
  • Renewable energy in Ohio
  • Surface area needed to power California with renewables
  • Renewable 21st Century
  • US National Renewable Energy Lab
  • European PV
  • Solar Buzz
  • European Solar Thermal
  • Global wind energy
  • European wind
  • Geothermal
  • Small hydro
  • Renewable percentage by country
  • Bottom line on sustainable
  • Renewable in Germany
  • More renewable in Germany
  • Sustainable development
  • Iceland is 100% renewable
  • Concerns about renewables
  • EROI and renewables
  • Another view on renewables in Germany
  • Is renewable E economically viable?
  • Some say yes
  • Robert Laughlin talking about powering the future
  • Robert Laughlin article similar to the video
  • Renewable energy in the US
  • Renewable energy and Google
  • All renewable possible?
  • Companies pledging renewable energy
  • TED talks on alternative energy
  • TED talks on sustainable energy
  • TED talks on renewable energy
  • Powering the planet video
  • Here comes the sun video
  • The future of energy video
  • Can the world get better?
  • Video on energy in the U.S.
  • TED Elon Musk of Tesla.
  • TED Amory Lovins on 40 year energy plan
  • TED David Mackay reality check
  • Renewables in Germany 2015
  • China and U.S. renewable energy
  • Nuclear and renewable
  • US could cut greenhouse emissions a lot
  • CA at forefront of global warming debate
  • SustE projects at UKY
  • Renewable E in Costa Rica
  • Renewable startup
  • Green hotel in Ohio
  • Clean energy and elections
  • Iowa wind
  • Corporations and clean energy
  • Simulation of 100% renewable E
  • Which states make renewables easy?
  • Saudis pursue renewable energy
  • Renewables are pretty cheap!
  • Sustainability saves money
  • More sustainability saves money
  • Sustainability makes money
  • P and G sustainability
  • More P and G sustainability


    • Nuclear

  • TED talk does the world need nuclear E?
  • Nuclear power
  • Breeder reactor
  • International Atomic Energy Agency
  • World Nuclear
  • Nuclear information
  • Gen-4 information
  • ITER fusion
  • New fusion development
  • Thorium
  • Thorium TED talk
  • Another thorium talk by same speaker, Kirk Sorensen
  • Energy from thorium
  • Why thorium is safer
  • Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
  • Another thorium talk
  • Thorium documentary
  • Thorium fuel cycle
  • Thorium power
  • Nuclear fusion
  • New fusion reactor design
  • New hope for nuclear
  • TED talk on nuclear and environment
  • TED talk on fusion


    • Solar

  • EIA Solar
  • Area of solar panels necessary to power the earth?
  • Area of solar panels in Sahara necessary to power the earth?
  • Solar Energy
  • Solar Cell
  • Solar Power
  • Solar overview
  • Photovoltaics
  • Rare Earth metals metal supply?
  • Rare Earth metals needed for PV?
  • Rare Earth scarcity
  • Rare Earth and China
  • Rare Earth recycling, for wind also
  • How many solar panels to power the world?
  • Rechargeable solar battery
  • Solar in India
  • Benefits of solar panels on your home
  • Future of solar
  • Solar by country
  • Solar by country (per capita)
  • Stanford solar storage with hydrogen-1
  • Stanford solar storage with hydrogen-2
  • Solar new developments
  • Solar developments site (and other renewables)
  • Solar developments undergrad paper
  • New solar nano-materials
  • New solar polymer materials
  • Artificial leaf for water splitting
  • Solar in the U.S. on the rise
  • Store solar underground
  • Make green home affordable
  • Solar panels making waves
  • Here comes the sun video
  • Materials for solar cells
  • Down side of solar
  • How sustainable is solar?
  • Myths and facts about solar
  • Solar in Germany
  • Solar in Spain
  • Solar roads
  • Greener solar cells
  • Solar roads
  • Tesla solar roofs
  • China to build huge solar farm at Chernobyl
  • Milford (Cincinnati suburb) companry makes solar panels


    • Bioenergy and other fuels

  • EIA Biomass
  • EIA Biofuels
  • Bioenergy
  • Biofuel
  • Bacteria turn CO2 into fuel
  • Algae and clean energy
  • Bacteria turn CO2 into fuel, another article
  • Bacteria turn CO2 into fuel, still another article
  • Bacteria in human gut and fuels
  • Artificial photosynthesis for biofuels
  • Algae for biofuels
  • Biofuels NASA TED talk
  • News article on 2015 developments in biofuels
  • News article making green fuels with no fossils
  • News article material for sustainable energy source
  • Microalgae for biofuels research in Ohio
  • Use organic waste to power garbage trucks
  • CO2 back into fuels
  • CO2 to methane conversion by bacteria
  • CO2 with light converted to fuels


    • Hydroelectricity

  • EIA hydro
  • Hydroelectricity
  • Hydropower
  • Locks and dams on the Ohio River
  • Hydro on the Ohio River-1
  • Hydro on the Ohio River-2
  • Hydro on the Ohio River-3
  • Hydro on the Ohio River-4


    • Oceans

  • Tidal
  • Waves
  • Salt power


    • Wind

  • EIA Wind
  • Wind
  • Wind in the U.S.
  • Wind FAQs
  • How much wind to power U.S.?
  • U.S. wind maps
  • Does wind energy kill a lot of birds?
  • Does wind energy kill a lot of birds? (2)
  • List of wind farms in U.S.
  • Scotland wind
  • Wind in Ohio
  • More wind in Ohio
  • Still more wind in Ohio
  • Ohio energy policy 2015
  • Ohio wind farms
  • Ohio reversal?
  • Wind in Iowa
  • Dutch trains powered by wind
  • NREL wind land use info


    • Geothermal

  • EIA Geothermal
  • Geothermal


    • Hydrogen and water splitting

  • EIA hydrogen
  • Hydrogen economy
  • Hydrogen production
  • Fuel cell
  • Fuel cell car
  • Another fuel cell car article
  • New hydrogen development (thanks to Chris Hoover)
  • Nano hydrogen generator
  • Another hydrogen development
  • Hydrogen train in Germany
  • Hydrogen from algae
  • Water splitting new development


    • Energy storage: batteries, supercapacitors, pumped hydro

  • Battery
  • Lithium ion battery
  • Tesla lithium ion battery factory in Nevada
  • Supercapacitor
  • Business of energy storage
  • Evaluating batteries
  • Catch-22 of energy storage
  • Norwegian entrepeneur innovates batteries in US
  • Amazing new nano-battery
  • Large scale batteries and E storage on the grid
  • E storage in California
  • New kind of E storage battery
  • Texas E storage
  • Critical mass for renewable E storage
  • Nano-batteries
  • DOE battery project
  • Capacitor news
  • New storage ideas
  • Better batteries to beat global warming
  • Batteries for the grid
  • Li air batteries
  • Pumped hydro info South Carolina, Duke Energy
  • More pumped hydro info South Carolina, Duke Energy
  • New materials and phenomena in batteries and water splitting
  • MIT battery research
  • New supercapacitor materials
  • New Li air battery ideas
  • Battery recharged with CO2
  • Improved batteries for renewable energy storage


    • New developments of interest

  • Colleges and clean energy
  • Yale leadership forum on sustainability
  • Wiki Energy
  • Energy from cars on roads in CA
  • DOE energy innovation mission
  • Renewables in Africa
  • Sustainability conference
  • Sustainable Louisville
  • Car runs on sea water
  • Butler U and IUPUI win sustainability competition
  • Smart grid
  • Energy modeling
  • Fort Hood goes renewable


    • Energy and food

  • 10 Cal in 1 Cal out
  • Diet and energy
  • Food and energy
  • Food and energy by food type
  • More food and energy by food type
  • Farming and renewable energy


    • Jobs in energy industry (especially renewable energy)

  • IRENA report on renewable energy jobs
  • Data on jobs in clean E
  • CleanE job future
  • Jobs/careers in clean E
  • Jobs in renewable E
  • More jobs in renewable E
  • Jobs in renewable E growing quickly
  • Google "Jobs in renewable energy", "Jobs in clean energy", etc for lots of info.


    • Great online site for science and technology news

  • PhysOrg
  • How accurate is Wikipedia?


    • Feynman physics lectures online

  • Feynman
    • See Vol. I chapter 4.


    Department of Energy Energy101 information site

  • Energy101


    • Kahn Academy

  • Kahn


    • Online video:

  • Youtube: Powering the Future.
  • Netflix: several videos about Tesla.
  • TopDocs: Docs On this page look up "Energy Quest", "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy", "Free Energy: the Race to Zero Point", "Thorium: an Energy Solution", "Here Comes the Sun".
  • Energy and beef: Energy-Beef
  • Netflix, Energy and food etc: Cowspiracy


    • Interesting plots and photos:

    US Energy supply/use
    USEnergy
    US mandatory spending
    mandatory
    US discretionary spending
    discretionary
    Earth at night
    NightEarth Population density
    PopDens CO2 production
    CO2Dens Polar ice cap
    Polar Ice Cap=

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