Local Versions of Companion to Energy

• List of Chapters
   
  
• E01.1 How Earth got its ozone layer
• E01.2 Why volcanic eruptions can't be cause of ozone depletion
• E01.3 Coal mining: example of Tragedy of the Commons
   
  
• E02.1 Humanity in space
   
  
• E03.1 Average speed, average velocity, and instanteous velocity
• E03.2 Calculating acceleration from velocity change and time
• E03.3 Acceleration and force in circular motions
• E03.4 Newton's laws of motion
• E03.5 Deriving kinetic energy from work
• E03.6 Diffferent forms of energy
• E03.7 Various units
   
  
• E04.1 Electric force betw point charges
• E04.2 Calculating average acceleration
• E04.3 Using Ohm's law
• E04.4 The squirrel-cage motor
• E04.5 The 2003 blackout
   
  
• E05.1 Prediction 2000
• E05.2 Geometric or exponential growth
• E05.3 US population
   
  
• E06.1 Finding Total Energy Released in Combustion
• E06.2 Formation of TNT
   
  
• E07.1 Explaining Hot and Cold
• E07.2 There Is No Such Thing as "Heat Energy"
• E07.3 Statistics and the Dinner
• E07.4 The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
• E07.5 Why Conserve Helium.
• E07.6 Real Power Plants and Refrigerators
   
  
• E08.1 Correcting the figures
• E08.2 Deregulation in 21st century
• E08.3 Economiies of scale in crude oil transport
• E08.4 Gouging
• E08.5 Enron and drergulation
   
  
• E09.1 What Govt can do about conservation
• E09.2 Savings on appliances
• E09.3 How utilities encouraged conservation: demand side management
• E09.4 R-values
• E09.5 Comfort on the Cheap
• E09.6 Heat pumm systems operating on ground temperature
• E09.7 Lessons from Europe on energy conservation
   
  
• E10.1 Minerals, conquest and war
• E10.2 What drives exploitation
• E10.3 Minerals and the environment (past and present problems)
• E10.4 Definitions for mineral resouces and reserves (US Dept of the Interior, US Geological Survey, 2001, App C)
• E10.5 Why lowering grade sometimes does not increase reserve by much
   
  
• E11.1 Waste in Germany--waste reduction and der Grune Punkt
• E11.2 Industrial ecology
• E11.3 Recycling computers and other electronics and other electronic applications
• E11.4 Deleware recyclers
   
  
• E12.1 Finding gas and oid
• E12.2 Politics and fossil fuels
• E12.3 The consequence of cheap--and expensive--oil
• E12.4 Hubbert and world oil production (but see "Peak oil doesn't exist" in Resources/Essays)
• E12.5 Increasing recovery
• E12.6 Refineries
• E12.7 Shale oil exploitation and its consequences
• E12.8 New gasification and liquefaction technology
• E12.9 Mountaintopping (stripmining and environment)
   
  
• E13.1 Reaction Rates
• E13.2 Getting More Fresh Water
• E13.3 The Hudson Story
• E13.4 Coastal Aquifers
   
  
• E14.1 Pollution control systems
• E14.2 The Health Hazards of heavy metals
• E14.3 WHO Air Quality Guidelines
• E14.4 PAN, or Photochemical Smog
• E14.5 1990 CAAA, NOx, Particulates and the EPA
• E14.6 Costs of Attainment of PhaseI of CAAA
• E14.7 The pH Scale
• E14.8 Acid Lakes, Acid Rain, and Nitrogen and Sulfut Oxides
   
  
• E15.1 Mass transit or highway construction
• E15.2 Trasport of fuel
• E15.3 SUVS and CAFE standards
• E15.4 Clean Air Act Amendments, California, and zero emission
• E15.5 Methanol and ethanol
• E15.6 Sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxides and Waldschaden
• E15.7 Examples of efficiency possibilities
• E15.8 Hybrids and electric cars
   
  
• E16.1 ENSO eventa
• E16.2 Physics of the Atmosphere
• E16.3 Temperature, ice volume, and age proxy measurements
• E16.4 The Carbon Cycle
• E16.5 Effect of dust and aerosols
• E16.6 Mars, Martial weather, and nuclear winter
• E16.7 Milankovitch cycles [for predicting glaciastion onset]
• E16.8 Where did all the dinosaurs go?
   
  
• E17.1 The IPCC (int panel on climate change)
• E17.2 Modeling in atmospheric science
• E17.3 General Circulation Models' problems
• E17.4 Effects of a warmer climate on societies and ecosystems
• E17.5 What doews sea level rise mean?
• E17.6 Methods of removing or reducing CO^{2 and trace gases}
• E17.7 Planting tress
• E17.8 Why we should support the Kyoto Protocol
   
  
• E18.1 Mass In Nuclear Physics
• E18.2 Isotopes
• E18.3 The Liquid Drop Model
• E18.4 More on alphs, beta and gamma Decay
• E18.5 Detection Radiation
   
  
• E19.1 Enrichment of Uranium
• E19.2 Reactor Safety Systems
• E19.3 Uranium Resources
• E19.4 Uranium Ore Formation
• E19.5 New Nuclear Reactor Types
• E19.6 Effects of Irradiations on Materials
• E19.7 Carelessness and the Nuclear Industry
   
  
• E20.1 Background Radiation
• E20.2 Nuclear Units and Applications
• E20.3 Irradiation and Contamination
• E20.4 The Lewis Report
• E20.5 Void Coefficient
• E20.6 Nonionizing Radiation
• E20.7 Radon
• E20.8 Civilian Wastes, Defense Wastes, Mine Tailings and Exposure
• E20.9 Linear Non-Treshhold Dose Radiation
• E20.10 More on Chernobyl
• E20.11 Trust Funds on Wastes
• E20.12 Comparing Nuclear Wastes and Fossil-Fuel Energy Risks
   
  
• E21.1 Blackbodies
• E21.2 How a Windmill Works
• E21.3 Power from the Wind
• E21.4 The Physics of Solar Cells
• E21.5 Photovoltaic systems
• E21.6 Solar One and Solar Two
   
  
• E22.1 Dams
• E22.2 Ocean Wave Energy Device
• E22.3 OTEC
   
  
• E23.1 Fuel from Biomass and Other Sources of Solar Energy
• E23.2 Fuel, Food, and World Politics
• E23.3 Cookstoves
   
  
• E24.1 Feedlots
• E24.2 Pesticides
• E24.3 Genertic Modification and Biotechnology in Agriculture
• E24.4 The Green Revolutiion, Fertilizer and Erosion
   
  
• E25.1 More on Superconductivity
• E25.2 More on Batteries
• E25.3 Geothermal Energy
• E25.4 Burning Trash
• E25.5 Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cells
   
  
• E26.1 Sustainability and Ecosytem Value
• E26.2 People and the Land
• E26.3 People and Plants
• E26.4 Interspecies Competition, Habitat and Ecosystem Services
• E26.5 The Oceanic Food Web
• E26.6 Insects, Other Animals and People
• E26.7 Toxic Waste vs People
• E26.8 Interesting Cleanup Ideas
• E26.9 Assuming Risks of Air Pollution and Benefits of Lack of Pollution