Non-renewable energy sources

Online units conversion site.

Overheads, tables, web sites, instructor notes:

• Figures from text (Fundamentals of Environmental Physics, Forinash).

• Energy Information Administration (EIA):
  • Electricity Generation by fuel. Monthly.
  • International energy outlook; projections.
  • Monthly Energy Review.
  • Savings for replacing appliances.
• BP: Statistical Review of World Energy (current).
• Web page with power point presentation on energy by N. Lewis and group at Cal Tech.
• Historical change in energy use in the world.
• Historical change in energy use in the US.
• Electrical use in the US: large appliance, small appliance, by primary source.
• The carbon cycle today: one, two.
• Petroleum:
  • Oil imports to the US by country.
  • Top 10 reserves by country.
  • Gas tax, select countries.
  • Cost versus GDP and cost versus fuel efficiency.
  • Extraction.
  • fractionation.
• Coal:
  • Historical output.
  • Reserves.
  • Coal power plants: 1, 2.
• Natural gas reserves by country.
• IEA current cost projections
• Projections of future use have been wrong in the past.
• EIA projections of energy use for the US.
• Hubbert curves:
  • Original.
  • Peak oil in other countries.
  • Peak oil in US.
  • Verquist curve (alternative shapes for Hubber).
  • Hubbert's peak for global oil: one, two.
  • The end of cheap oil (Campbell and Laherrere).
  • Links to peak oil pages (may not be reliable).
  • Peak oil poster.
  • USGS prediction.
  • Predictions for other non-renewable resources.
• Clathrates: one, two.

Articles:

• 'The end of cheap oil', by C. J. Campbell and J. H. Laherrere Scientific American vol. 279 No. 3 March (1998) p78.
• 'Powering the Next Century' a series of articles in Science vol 285 July (1999) p677.
• 'The Future of Fuel Cells' A. J. Appleby, A. C. Lloyd, C. K. Dyer Scientific American vol. 281 No. 1 July (1999) p72.
• 'Nuclear energy: part of a green future?' E. Cartlidge Physics World April (2000) p10.
• 'Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Next Decade' by A.H. Rosenfeld, T.M. Kaarsberg, J. Romm Physics Today vol. 53 No. 11 November (2000) p29.
• 'World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability', J. Goldemberg, United Nations Development Programme Report, 2000.
• 'The Artic Oil and Wildlife Refuge' by W. W. Gibbs Scientific American vol. 284 No. 5 May (2001) p62.
• Special Issue: 'The Energy Challenge' Physics Today vol. 55 No. 4 April (2002).
• 'Next-generation nuclear power',� By: Lake, James A., Bennett, Ralph G., Kotek, John F., Scientific American, Vol. 286, Issue 1, Jan (2002)p.
• 'Energy Resources and Global Development' by J. Chow,� R. J. Kopp and P. R. Portney, Science Vol. 302 (Nov. 23, 2003) p 1528.
• 'Statistics of Measurements of Automobile Fuel Efficiency' by A. Bartlett The Physics Teacher Vol. 41 Nov. (2003) p472.
• 'Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-Term Energy Supplies' P. B. Weisz� Physics Today vol. 57 No. 7 July (2004) p47.
• 'Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste', William Hannum, Gearald Marsh George Stanford, Scientific American, Vol. 293, Issue 6, Dec (2005)p84.
• 'Methane Hydrate Production from the Alaska permafrost' T. E. Williams, K. Millheim, B. Liddell, Department of Energy DE-FC26-01NT41331, March 2005.
• �'Peak Oil Forum' (collection of articles predicting when peak oil production will occur) WorldWatch Vol. 19 No. 1 (2006) p9-24.
• World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability by J. Goldemberg (on the web: http://www.undp.org/energy/ ).
• Resource Letter PSEn-1: Physics and society: Energy by Art Hobson American Journal of Physics vol. 75 No. 4 April (2007) p294.