Monday, April 17, 2006

Readings for various super-fun-easy quizes

Quiz 1
Wikipedia: Hubbert Peak
National Geographic: End of Cheap Oil
Energy Chain (ask me about this)

Quiz 2
Wikipedia: Tragedy of the Commons
Wikipedia: California Energy Crisis
Rule of 70 (you may want to review the Wikipedia article)
Wikipedia: Rule of 70

Quiz 3
Wikipedia: Laws of Thermodynamics
Wikipedia: Cogeneration
National Academy of Engineers Announces $1 million challenge
UCL News: Easy Access to Water Causes Baby Boom

Quiz 4
PBS Video: Global Warming, the Signs and the Science (ask to borrow this)
Wikipedia: Electric Vehicles
Beyond Oil (ask for handout, the website is currently down)

Quiz 5
Nova: Battleplan Under Fire
CNN: Bush blames lab's funding shortfall on mix-up
Wikipedia: Gasification
Wikipedia: FutureGen

Quiz 6
Wired News: Dung under pressure makes gas
Wikipedia: Coal, Coal Gasification, Liquifaction
Wikipedia: Fischer-Tropsch process
Wikipedia: Aerogels

Quiz 7
Wikipedia: Gasoline
Wikipedia: Coal, Origin of Coal
Wikipedia: Passively Safe
Wikipedia: Wood Gas

Quiz 8
Wikipedia: Switchgrass
Wikipedia: Hydroelectric
New Scientist: Hydroelectric Power's Dirty Secret Revealed
Scientific American Frontiers: Hot times in Alaska
Wikipedia: Biomass

Quiz 9
PBS Video: Tesla, Master of Lighting
Wikipedia: Nikola Tesla
Wikipedia: Geothermal Power
Wikipedia: Wind Power

Quiz 10
CNN: Senator Obama hits administration's energy policy
Professor's overpopulation views stir debate
Wikipedia: War of the Currents

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