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Science
Life Sciences, Nature of Science, Earth and Space Sciences, Physical Sciences
Key Concepts:
- Basics in energy, work, and potential and kinetic energy
- Our sun as a producer of heat, light, and radiation through fusion, its role in photosynthesis, and as a source in wind energy, biomass energy, solar energy, and even fossil fuels
- A timeline of important events in the historical and scientific development of biomass, fossil fuels, geothermal, hydrogen, nuclear, solar, wind, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation
- Types of energy such as chemical, electrical, gravitational, heat, light, magnetic, mechanical, nuclear, and sound energy
- Atoms, circuits, electrical generation
- Profiles of eight energy resources include biomass, fossil fuels, geothermal, hydrogen, hydropower, nuclear, solar, and wind
- Energy uses of electricity, heating and cooling, manufacturing, and transportation
- Issues of consumption, conservation and increased efficiency, and infrastructure
- Energy's impact on the environment, world energy use, clean air, environmental impacts of hydropower, and emerging technologies that are more environmentally friendly
- Viewpoints from a variety of stakeholders, experts, and career professionals include a senator, fossil fuels professor, geothermal spokesperson, biomass researcher, environmentalist, power company spokesperson, solar entrepreneur, hydropower superintendent, nuclear industry manager, energy consultant, researcher, energy data analyst, and policy expert
- Stakeholders and experts from a variety of viewpoints, biases, persuasiveness, and expertise in energy discuss how energy will be generated, transmitted, conserved, and consumed
- Special interest articles about energy and related content such as Trans-Atlantic Pipeline, Switching to Switchgrass, Clean Coal, Hydro-Powerhouse, A New Design for Nuclear Plants: The Pebble Bed Reactor, Solar Two Reflects on Energy, Heat Pumps, Emissions, and many more!
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