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Social Studies
Behavioral Studies, Civics, Economics, Geography
Key Concepts:
- Renewable and nonrenewable energy
- Energy uses of electricity, heating and cooling, manufacturing, and transportation
- Existing and future infrastructure for electricity, heating and cooling, manufacturing, and transportation
- Issues of consumption, conservation and increased efficiency
- Energy use’s impact on the environment, social, cultural, and economic processes that use energy
- Natural resources acquisition, allocation, and use
- Future sources of energy
- Technological advancements in transportation and heating and cooling
- Research and experimentation in clean coal, biodiesel, pebble bed nuclear reactors
- A timeline of important events in the historical and scientific development of biomass, fossil fuels, geothermal, hydrogen, nuclear, solar, wind, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation
- Profiles of eight energy resources include biomass, fossil fuels, geothermal, hydrogen, hydropower, nuclear, solar, and wind
- Energy's impact on the environment, world energy use, clean air, environmental impacts of hydropower, and emerging technologies that are more environmentally friendly
- Economic impact on consumption of goods and natural resources, individual practices of conservation, and personal rights and responsibilities
- Government presence in infrastructure for transportation, and energy supply and consumption
- 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
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