Energy Facts

• US Energy Consumption

Organizations

• US Department of Energy
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• World Health Organization
• Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
• Electricity Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Losses
• Earth Policy Institute
• International Atomic Energy Authority
• Greenpeace (USA)
• California Center for Sustainable Energy

Alternate Energy Organizations

• Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
• Alternative Energy News
• U-M CSS Center for Sustainable Systems

Election Promises

• Obama, McCain energy plans - CNN
• New Energy for America - The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan
• A closer look
• Is Obama's Energy Plan Enough? - Time magazine
• Challenges Ahead For Obama's Energy Plan - National Public Radio
• McCain's energy plan - Economist
• McCain's energy plan - The Daily Green

Wind Energy

• US DOE Wind Energy Technologies
• American Wind Energy Association
• Wind Power
• The Bottom Line About Wind Turbines
• How Wind Power Works

Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Power

• Elementary Particles
• Atomic Structure
• Radioactivity
• Practice Questions for Radioactive Decay
• Help on the mathematics of logarithms and exponentials
• Periodic Table of Elements
• Can we use a radioactive source as a viable power plant?
• Nuclear Reactions
• Nuclear Chain Reactions
• see later pages for critical mass, Controlled Nuclear Fission,
• Nuclear Chain Reaction - demonstration
• Power Reactors
• CANDU Nuclear Power Technology
• Uranium Enrichment
• Nuclear fusion
• Demonstration movies from General Atomic
• Stellar Processes
• Proton proton chain
• CNO cycle

Global Warming & Global Climate Change

• Data @ NASA GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP)
• NCDC: Global Warming
• Trends Online Contents
• Temperature data (HadCRUT3 and CRUTEM3)
• Global Warming Facts and Figures: The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• CPC - Monitoring & Data: Rest of the World Climate Data

Miscellaneous Alternative Energy

• Wind power: A reality check - Jul. 22, 2008 Plans are afoot to prod the nation into using much more renewable energy. Can be it done, and what's the cost?
• The Energy Challenge - Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits - Series - NYTimes.com Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
• A Series - The Energy Challenge - NYTimes.com
• HowStuffWorks "What is clean coal technology?" Clean coal reduces the harmful emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Learn about the development of clean coal and the uses for clean coal technology.
• CleanCoalUSA What is ‘clean coal,’ anyway? - Christian Science Monitor
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• Robert O. Schulz Solar Farm, near Oakdale CA