Resources for Environmental Physics
Please feel free to send me any reference material
you feel would be a useful addition to this list. Corrections would be useful
too.
Updated:
10/6/2009
14:46
Online units conversion
site.
Overheads, tables, instructor notes:
- Forinash's PowerPoint on Energy.
- Population and
effects:
- Conversion
processes:
- Conservation:
- Non-Renewable
Energy.
- Slides about energy
use
- Projections of future use, past
- Petroleum: oil imports, gas tax, gas price, top 10 country reserves, fractionation
- Hubbert curves: original,
oil in other countries, oil in US, Verquist curve, global1, global2, USGS, other
- Clathrates: one, two
- Renewable Energy.
- Hydrological
cycle
- Hydro: locations; potential one, two, three
- Wind: photos; location; what can be captured one, two; windmill design one, two, features/history
- OTEC: engine, potential
- Geothermal: location, Arenal
- Waves: design one, two, three, four
- Photocells: description, bandgaps, multilayered, efficiency, cost, production
- Biomass: feedstock, potential, comparisons
- Fundy bay
pictures
- Estimates of available renewable
sources: one, two, three, Germany
- Energy
Storage
- Energy
content of various fuel storage materials
- Load Leveling: weekly, seasonally, typical mix
- Solar: Trombe, Mesa Verde 1, 2, Canyon de Chelly
- Below ground
hydro
- Compressed
air
- Moments of Inertia, Flywheel
- Batteries, Fuel cell/battery, battery, battery comparisons, again
- Ultra Capacitor: one
- Comparison tables: one, two, three, Rogone plot, overview, energy vs
power
- Notes on
transportation:
- Nuclear:
- Radiation, binding energy: one, two
- Enrichment: one
- Exposure risk: Radiation units, average exposure, US exposure, risk, risk2, one, two, three, radon, regulations
- Fuel equivalent with coal, comparative
risks
- Reactors: locations, types, PWR, BWR,
LMFB, Passive BWR, containment
- Chernobyl; reactor, fallout, YouTube of
Pripyat, another
- Hiroshima: dose
- Waste: fission products, waste, treatment plants, recycle
- Thorium
- Fusion: plasma, inertial, tokomak
- Climate
Change:
- In a nutshell: Why we know global warming is
real
- Photo of receding glacier in
Alaska
- Things that affect climate on
earth, climate
system
- Insolation: spectra, polar,
variations; short
term, long
term, short
term
- Ocean circulation: one
- Coriolis
effect, Animations
- Atmospheric circulation: one, two
- Short term oscillations: ENSO, ENSO, ENSO, NAO, NAO
- Milancovic cycle: one, two
- Atmosphere: origins, gas transmission,
total
transmission
- Radiation balance: one, two, three, four, Venus
- Notes on greenhouse
effect
- Temperature and
CO2 graphs
- Gas
emissions, carbon
cycle, carbon
cycle 2, Carbon emissions by
sector, CO2 and
temp, CO2
- Forcing: one, history
- What are the sources of climate
data?
- Modeling: history, history2, models, temperature check, temperature check, regional one, regional two, preciptation check, the future, growing season, precipitation, scenarios
- Conclusions: one,
- Comments about known climate
skeptics
- Risk:
- Car risks: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
- Risk
assessment notes.
- Death rate graphs presented in
class
- Coal
miner risks
- One in a million risks: one, two, three, four
- Fault tree: one, two
- Risk tables
- Radiation: one, two, three, four
- Nuclear power: one
- Meteors: one
- London fog
- Perceived risk: one, two, three
- Dose response: one
- Miscellaneous:
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Forinash, for comments/suggestions/corrections.
