Fall wk 4 – Mon.18.Oct.04
• Welcome, roll, questions
• Fossil Fuels (1 hr)
– Energy Ch.6, Earth Ch.16
– PIQ + seminar
• Exercise on rising CO2 levels (1 hr)
• 3:00 Clean Energy Fair
• Looking ahead
Energy Systems, EJZ
Fossil Fuels
Energy Ch.6: FF: Impacts and technologies
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Coal: tech use, present and future
Coal impacts, transportation and prep, combustion,
disposal; Controls and Costs
Transnational effects: acid rain, CO
Ecocentric ethics
Earth Ch.16: Earth resources
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Natural resource, water, soils (p.367)
Fossil fuels (p.384)
Measured rising CO2 levels
Intro to Energy, Cassedy & Grossman
Predict future CO2 levels
Current (2004) levels: 370 ppm (End of Oil, Roberts, p.125)
Find an equation for
(a) Linear rise
(b) Exponential rise
(c) Oscillations
We’ll put it all together, then
PREDICT CO2 level in 2100, based on (a) or (b)
Looking ahead
• COME ON TIME to Seminar tonight
– please be ready to start at 5:00 sharp
• Tuesday
– Biodiesel debate
– Practice with physics and calculus HW
– Tour the tunnels and steam plant at 3:30
• TA here Wed.1-5, in the QRC Fri 10-noon
• Thursday: continue Trig and Thermal
Next week
• Monday:
– midterm exam online
– Conferences (sign up for times tomorrow)
– required Blog workshop
• No seminar class (conferences with Sem
students)
• Read Energy Appendix B
• Tuesday: Required workshops
– Research planning #2
– Library workshop #2
• Thus: Present your midquarter Research
Proposal (sign up for times tomorrow)
PSE bill