Course: Energy, Environment, and Everyday Life
Modules:
Course Introduction and Guidelines
What Is Energy?, Nothing New under the Sun, How Things Work: Fireworks, We Are All Star Material, Disappearing Mass, How Things Work: Big Bells and Bad Beats, Measure Up, Energy Around the World, Where Does It Come From?, How Is It Used?, How Things Work: Voice Change and Sound Proofing - What Is Sound?, How Things Work: Voice Change and Sound Proofing – Getting Rid of Sound, How Things Work: Voice Change and Sound Proofing – Do Silencers Really Work
What Goes Up..., What Is Temperature?, Fun and Facts with Liquid Nitrogen, How Things Work: Airport behind the Scenes, Energy from Chemistry?, Heat Engines, How Things Work: The Engine in Your Car…, Diesel Is Different, Octane and Other Numbers at the Pump, Hybrid Cars?, Electricity: What and How, Electricity: Where and When, The Smart Grid, How Things Work: Shock and Awe-some Lightning
What Is Coal?, Coal: Who Has It, Wants It, and Uses It, What's Up with the Water?, Burning Coal through the Decades, What Goes Up in Smoke?, The University's Power (Plant), How Things Work: A Coal (and Gas) Power Plant, Acid Rain, Trading Smoke Works, Cleaning Coal (I.e., Dropping Acid), How Things Work: What Happens to Our Garbage, How the Greenhouse Works, Which Gasses Are Bad?, The Earth's Getting Warmer – How Do We Know?, Effects of Global Warming, How to Cool the Planet, Geoengineering – Possible? Desirable?, How Things Work: What Happens When You Flush Your Toilet?, Climate Change Assignment Introduction
How Does Oil Form?, How Do You Find It?, How to Get It Out, How to Get Even More Out!, Refining: Crude Conversion, How Things Work: Gateway to the Heavens, Oil Producers and Consumers, Tar Sands, Pipeline Controversies, Oil Economics, How Things Work: How Does a Cell Phone Find You?, From the Well to You, How Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Works, Fracking and the Environment: Myth and Reality, Who Produces and Consumes Natural Gas, Combined Cycle and Converting Coal to Run It, How Things Work: Laser Light Shows
The Magic in a Solar Cell, The Cost of Sunshine, What Is “Passive” Solar?, How Things Work: Ice Rinks, How Does a Salt Pond Work?, How Things Work: Windmills, What's in a Windmill, Blowing in the Wind, There Is Always a Cost, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Economy, Making Moonshine, How Things Work: How Is Beer Made?, What Goes into Making Biofuels?, Economics of Biofuels, Growing Stuff to Burn, Energy from Garbage
Small-Scale Hydropower, Large-Scale Hydropower, The Power of Water, Hot Rocks, Heat for Homes?, Home Improvements!, How Things Work: Walking on Water, How Things Work: Why Is the Sky Blue?, ABCs of Radiation, The World around You, How Much Is Too Much?, What Makes Something Radioactive?, Food Irradiation, Energy from Atoms?, Nuclear Fission, What Is in a Nuclear Reactor?, The Biggest Bangs!, How Things Work: Movie Theaters in the Modern Age
How TMI Started, How TMI Ended, What We Learned from TMI, How Things Work: What You Can Do with an MRI, Chernobyl: Worst Accident Ever, Xenon Can Be a Problem, Health Effects of Chernobyl, An Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Fukushima, How Things Work: Backstage at a Theater, Uranium from the Ground, Getting to the Good Stuff (Uranium Enrichment), What Is Left Over (Depleted Uranium), Economics of Nuclear Power, How Things Work: Behind the Scenes at a Football Stadium
Natural Nuclear Reactor, The Real Bad Stuff (High-Level Wastes), Moving Nuclear Waste Around, Contaminated Things (Low-Level Wastes), After It Is All Over (Decommissioning), How Things Work: Grilling/Cooking, How to Be Allowed to Build, The Newest Reactors (Generation III), Making More Than You Use (Breeder Reactors), Dealing with the Used Fuel (Reprocessing), Reactors of the Future (Generation IV), How Things Work: Super Computers, How Things Work: Microwave Ovens, What Is a Plasma?, What Is Fusion and How Do You Get It to Work?, Magnetic Fusion's Progress, Inertial Confinement's Progress, What Plasmas Have to Do with Computer Chips