PHSC 3500 Solar & Alternate Energy
Internet Resources
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