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3-2: Energy Consumption, Conservation, and Future Options

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• The Carbon Dioxide Cost of Traveling
  
  
• Nuclear Power as an Alternative to Fossil-Fuel Derived Power?
  
  
• Advances in Lighting Efficiency
  
  
• Toward a Hydrogen Economy
  
  
• Efficiency of Ethanol Production
  
  
• Wind Power in Cities
  
  
• Nuclear Power - Clean Energy for the Future?
  
  
• Will Water Vapor from Hydrogen-Powered Cars Cause Climate Change?
  
  
• Negative Side of Hydrogen Cars
  
  
• Potential Global Change from Hydrogen Fuels
  
  
• Energy from Tides and Underwater Currents
  
  
• Solid Methane on the Ocean Floor
  
  
• Thermohaline Circulation
  
  
• Methane Hydrate for Fuel
  
  
• Global warming is here and we need to do something about it / En Español
  
  
• China's population growth and it's economic boom.
  
  
• Energy issues in Iowa.
  
  

Websites

• Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger
  
  
• UK to Pump Greenhouse Gas Under Sea
  
  
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos
  
  
• One gallon of gasoline requires 98 tons of buried prehistoric plant material
  
  
• Ecological Footprint
  
  
• Energy Information Administration
  
  
• Renewable Energy
  
  
• Alternative Fuels
  
  
• CO₂ emissions from industrial processes
  
  
• Emissions of CO₂ - selected countries (1995)
  
  
• American Bioenergy Association
  
  
• Clear Sky Radiative Forcing of Climate
  
  

Additional References

• Venkataraman, C., G. Habib, A. Eiguren-Fernadez, A.H. Miguel, and S.K. Friedlander, 2005: Residential biofuels in South Asia: Carbonaceous aerosol emissions and climate impacts. Science, 307, 1454-1456.
  
  
• Crabtree, G., M.S. Dresselhaus, and M.V. Buchanan, 2004: The hydrogen economy. Physics Today, Dec 2004, 39-44.
  
  
• Abraham, S., 2004: The Bush Administration's approach to climate change. Science, 305, 616-617.
  
  
• Smil, V., 2003: Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties. MIT Press, 448 pp.
  
  
• Bartlett, A.A., 2004: Thoughts on long-term energy supplies: Scientists and the silent lie. Physics Today, July, pp 53-55.
  
  
• Grant, P. M., 2003: Hydrogen lifts off - with a heavy load. Nature, 424, 129-130.
  
  
• Caldeira, K., A. K. Jain, and M. I. Hoffert, 2003: Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission. Science, 299, 2052-2054.
  
  
• Service, R. F., 2002: Shrinking fuel cells promise power in your pocket. Science, 296, 1222-1224.
  
  
• Ausubel, J. H., 2000: Where is energy going? The Idustrial Physicist.February 2000. p 16-19.
  
  
• Goldemberg, J. , ed., 2001: World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability. UNDP, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Energy Council. New York. 528pp
  
  
• Parson, E. A., and D. W. Keith, 1998: Fossil fuels without CO₂ emissions. Science, 282, 1053-1054.
  
  
• Romm, Joseph, J., and Charles B. Curtis, 1996: Mideast Oil Forever? Atlantic Monthly, 57-74.
  
  
• Rothstein, J., 1993: Hydrogen and Fossil Fuels. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 20, 283-286.
  
  
• Soclow, R., C. Andrews, F. Berkhout and V. Thomas, eds. 1994: Industrial Ecology and Global Change. Cambridge University Press, 500 pp.