ER 100 / 200 and Pub Pol C184 / C284
Energy and Society

 

Lectures ER100 (cc # 27406) & ER200 (cc # 27457)

Lectures Pub Pol C184 (cc # 77124) & Pub Pol C284 (cc # 77253)

Tues & Thurs, 2:00 – 3:30 PM, A1 HEARST ANNEX (Pacific Film Archive)



ER100 / 184 Sections

ER200 / 284 Sections

Section GSI

Section

Day/time

Rm. No.

CC#

Section

Day/time

Rm. No.

CC#

101

T 1-2

174 Barrows

27409

101

T 1-2

174 Barrows

27460

Kahrl

102

T 1-2

175 Barrows

27412

102

T 1-2

175 Barrows

27463

Milman

103

W 9-10

136 Barrows

27421

103

W 9-10

136 Barrows

27472

Gutiérrez

104

W 9-10

174 Barrows

27418

104

W 9-10

174 Barrows

27572

Kantner

105

M 9-10

136 Barrows

27421

105

M 9-10

136 Barrows

27472

Kahrl

106

M 9-10

174 Barrows

27424

106

M 9-10

174 Barrows

27475

Kantner

107

W 9-10

175 Barrows

27426

107

W 9-10

175 Barrows

27477

Milman

108

T 1-2

285 Cory

27571

108

T 1-2

285 Cory

27574

Gutiérrez

109

M 1-2

170 Barrows

27577

109

M 1-2

170 Barrows

27583

Farbes

110

T 11-12

175 Barrows

27580

110

T 11-12

175 Barrows

27586

Farbes


Professor Daniel Kammen

326 Barrows Hall

Energy and Resources Group & Goldman School of Public Policy

Email: kammen@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays morning – schedule with ERG front office: 2-1640

 

 

Course websites - http://er100200.berkeley.edu &

http://bSpace.berkeley.edu

 

 

Among the questions we will address in this course are:

 

• In what ways has fossil-fuel use defined the 20th Century? What about the 21st?

• What role is there for renewable energy and energy efficiency today and in the future?

• What is the role of nuclear power in our present and future energy mix?

• Could fuel cells or the hydrogen economy cause a revolution in the automotive industry?

• Is the U. S. ready to acknowledge and address global warming?

• How are energy issues different in developing nations from those in the ‘North’?

 

Are you interested in these questions?  Then Energy and Society is for you!

 

Each of these questions about the use and impacts of energy systems requires an interdisciplinary understanding that explores the scientific, technical, economic, social, political and environmental opportunities and impacts of our energy system.

 

In this course, you will develop an understanding – and a real working knowledge – of our energy technologies, policies, and options.  This will include analysis of the different opportunities and impacts of energy systems that exist within and between groups defined by national, regional, household, ethnic, gender distinctions.  Analysis of the range of current and future energy choices will be stressed, as well as the role of energy in determining local environmental conditions and the global climate.

 

ER200c/GSPP284 are graduate versions of ER100c/GSPP184, and their lectures and sections are held in common.  ER200/GSPP284 includes additional material, and added analytic tools and problems on both the problem sets and the examinations. Grading for the undergraduate and gradute courses are separate. Undergraduates must enroll in ER100/GSPP184, and graduate students must enroll in ER200/GSPP284.

 

Course Goals

This course is designed to provide you with the methods, tools and perspectives to understand, critique, and ultimately influence the management of technical, economic, and policy choices regarding the options for energy generation and use.  We will focus equally on the technical, socioeconomic, political, and environmental impacts of energy. 

 

Topically, we will examine the full ‘life cycle’, or ‘cradle to grave to cradle again’ of energy, from the stage of raw materials, or inputs, to generation, conversion, distribution, consumption, recycling, waste, impacts, and ethnic, racial, gender, and economic inequities.  This work is inherently interdisciplinary, and will involve a fascinating but extensive effort to understand, critique and integrate tools and perspectives from anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, economics, engineering, physics, politics, sociology, and who knows what else.

 

The challenge of this integration is not simply one of learning and applying methods from very diverse disciplines, but more importantly is one of understanding how and when different types of analysis, disciplinary and political perspectives, and “voices” are heard, unheard, ignored, or discredited.  Energy is both a fundamental resource for society, the control of which reflects and shapes interactions within society, and between humans and the natural environment.

 

Coverage

Over the semester we will take a roughly chronological tour of the major fuel types used in human civilization.  From there we will begin a broad-ranging analysis of the energy resource, combustion or conversion processes, application, waste, economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impacts and options associated with these fuels and with the changing mix of fuels used within and across societies around the globe.

 


Assignments

There will be seven problem sets and a policy memo (30% of the grade), a mid-term examination (25%), and a final exam (35%). Participation in sections counts for 10%.

 

Problem sets are distributed every other Tuesday, and due back, in class, the Thursday of the following week. You may also turn the assignment in at the box located in the hallway outside the ERG office (310 Barrows) BEFORE 5pm Thursday.  Late assignments will be penalized 20% if turned in by 5pm on Monday, or 50% if turned in by 5pm on the following Thursday. No credit will be given for assignments turned in more than one week late.

 

You will get the most out of the problem sets if you make an initial effort to work through all of the problems on your own. After attempting to solve the problems on your own, you may then work with other students to discuss different approaches. However, remember that it is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct to copy answers from anyone.

 

As part of your participation in the course, you are encouraged to use the bSpace discussion board to make comments and/or ask questions related to the readings or lectures. We will also post the answers to questions about the problem sets on bSpace, so be sure to check bSpace regularly.

 

Required Texts

Hirsh, Richard (2000) Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA). 

 

Rubin, Edward S. (2001) Introduction to Engineering & the Environment (McGraw Hill: New York, NY).

 

Note: it does not matter what version of the texts you have; they have not changed significantly from year to year.


Web-based readings: A number of readings, both required and supplemental, are available on-line. We did not include these in the reader in order to keep the price down (you pay copyright charges for each article in the reader). In order to download some of these, you will need to use an on-campus computer or set up your home computer or laptop with the campus proxy service. This is straightforward and useful for doing research from home for all of your classes, just go to http://proxy.lib.berkeley.edu/ for directions.  Readings are available at the course website and on the course bSpace site.

 

Required Reading assignments should be completed before the lecture for which they are assigned.  While I recognize that this is not always possible, you need to try; the material in lecture does not simply review the readings.



Optional Field Trips

There will be several field trips during the semester. Each will be 2 - 5 hours (including travel time), and all will generally be Friday mornings (scheduling and class size will impact the timing).  The field trips will likely include:

·  The Combined Heat and Power Facility on the UC Berkeley Campus

·  The Pittsburgh Energy ‘Park’, a 2200 MW fossil-fuel power plant (gas and oil);

·  The High Winds wind farm in Solano (near Sacramento);

·  Moscone Center in San Francisco, site of the 675 kW solar photovoltaic array and a set of energy efficiency projects;


Graduate Student Instructors

 

Jamil Farbes

Javier Gutiérrez

Fritz Kahrl

Joe Kantner

Anita Milman

Office

399 Barrows Hall

308 GSPP

399 Barrows Hall

399 Barrows Hall

399 Barrows Hall

Office Hours

M 2-4

W 4-6

M 10-12

Tu 4-6

W 10-12

Email

jamil.farbes@berkeley.edu

jjga@berkeley.edu

fkahrl@berkeley.edu

kantner@berkeley.edu

admilman@berkeley.edu


The best way to reach us is by email.

 

Section meetings begin in Week 2 (i.e. starting 9/1).  Be sure to sign up for a section on-line.

 

You must enroll in a section; you cannot simply place yourself on a waiting list.


Lectures

Lecture notes (pdf files) will be available for each lecture, and will be posted on the course website generally a week before the lecture.  You should download the files, print them, and bring them to lecture so that you have all of the graphs and diagrams right in front of you.  We will also make the lectures available as audio files on the web.

Wk

Lecturer

Lecture #/Topic

1

Kammen

1.        Energy and Society: How Energy Use Shapes Society & the Environment

2

Kammen

2.        Energy Toolkit I: Units, Forecasts, and the Back-of-the-Envelope

Kammen

3.        Energy Toolkit II: Basics of Combustion

3

Kammen

4.        Energy for ‘the South’ I: Energy Transitions and National Development

Kammen

5.        Energy for ‘the South’ II: Households and Gender

4

Kammen

6.        Hydrocarbon Man: Coal, Oil, Industry & Society

Lucas

7.        Energy Toolkit III: Energy Thermodynamics

5

Lucas

8.        Energy Toolkit IV: Thermodynamics of Modern Power Plants

Lucas

9.        Energy Toolkit V: Fossil Fuel Combustion, Emissions and Controls

6

Kammen

10.     Energy Toolkit VI: Economic Analysis of Energy Systems

Kammen

11.     Energy Toolkit VII: Life-Cycle and Cost-Benefit Analysis

7

Horvath

12.     Evolution of the Modern Energy Economy

Kammen

13.   Energy Efficiency and Demand-Side Management

8

Friedmann

14.     Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Kammen

15.     The Grid & Energy Policy Innovation

9

GSIs

In class mid-term review (optional)

You!

Midterm Exam, In class

10

Wirth  

16.     Nuclear Energy I: Physics and Engineering

Peterson

17.     Nuclear Energy II: Waste, Risk & Economics, Fission/Fusion

11

Kammen

18.     Renewable Energy I: Solar Energy    

Pottinger, Angelei

19.     Energy and Environmental Justice

12

Kammen

20.   Renewable Energy II: Wind and Water Power

Lipman

21.   Renewable Energy III: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

13

Kammen

22.   Energy and Transportation: Liquid, Electric, and Other

Masera

23.   Renewable Energy IV: ‘Modern’ Biomass

14

Kammen

24.   Energy and the ‘Modernizing’ South

 

HOLIDAY THANKSGIVING

15

Kammen

25.    Climate Change I: Energy and Climate

Kammen

26.    Climate Change II: Energy Policy

16

Kammen

27.   Wrap-up and Integration: Energy Futures / What have we learned?

 

 

Final Exam Group: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009   1230-330P

 

Problem Set #

Assigned

Due

Coverage

1

9/1

9/10

Energy units and unit conversion 

These problems may be unfamiliar in style for many of you; if necessary use the GSI’s and study groups to ‘get into the swing’ of these calculations/estimates.  You must, however, do your own work. 

2

9/15

9/24

"Soft" and "hard" energy paths; combustion stoichiometry; energy, poverty, and gender; exponential growth models, utility bill analysis.

3

9/29

10/8

Cogeneration; thermodynamics of energy systems, power plant emissions; estimating petroleum reserves; environmental impacts of the "oil transition"; lifecycle costs and economic analysis

4

10/8*

10/15

Life-cycle analysis; regulation and technological change; levelized cost

5

10/27

11/5

Cost of conserved energy; transmission and distribution; policy memo

6

11/10

11/19

Nuclear energy and waste; nuclear proliferation; environmental justice

7

11/24

12/3

Transportation, energy and climate, and climate policy.

* Note: non-standard assignment and due date so you can have the graded exam back before the mid-term.  No late assignments accepted.

 

Problem sets are posted on the web, not physically distributed in class.

 

Do not leave problem sets for the final few days.  They are not hard if started early; they can be an unpleasant experience if left for the night before they are due ….

 

Problem sets are due in class or can be turned in to the problem set drop-off box outside of the Energy and Resources Group, 310 Barrows Hall.  Problem sets are late after 5:00 PM.

 

Problem sets cannot be turned in electronically or by fax.



Week 1 – Introduction to Energy Systems and Society

 

Lecture 1 (8/27) – Energy and Society: How Energy Use Shapes Society & the Environment:

 

Recommendation:  Try getting into the habit of looking for energy articles in newspapers and begin to get a feel for how ubiquitous and far-reaching energy issues are in society. In addition, check the opinion (“OpEd”) and editorial pages of your favorite newspapers.  As your last assignment of the course, you will be writing a ‘policy memo’ that in most cases can and should be submitted as an Op Ed yourself!

 

Good places to start include:

 

San Francisco Chronicle - http://www.sfgate.com

The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com

The Los Angeles Times – http://www.latimes.com

The Guardian (UK) - http://www.guardian.co.uk


Read at least 1- 2 articles in this series, ‘The Energy Challenge’ in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/science/earth/energy.html.

 

Over the semester, please commit to reading 3-4 additional articles from this excellent series.

 

Yergin, D. (1991) The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Simon & Schuster: New York).  Pages 11 – 16. [PDF Yergin_1991.pdf]

 

Plus, read a selection – you decide how many -- of these energy-related op-eds:

 

Fialka, J. J. (2006) “Energy Independence: A Dry Hole?” The Wall Street Journal, 5 July, A4. [PDF Fialka_2006.pdf]


Gore, A. (2008) “The Climate for Change”, The New York Times (11/9/08).
[PDF Gore_2008.pdf]


Doerr, J. and Immlet, J. (2009) “Falling behind on green tech”, The Washington Post  (8/3/09). [PDF Doerr_2009.pdf]

 

 

Week 2 – Methods in Energy Analysis

 

Lecture 2 (9/1) Energy Toolkit I: Units, Forecasts, and the Back-of-the-Envelope:


Rubin, EE, Rates of Technology Adoption, Pages 669 – 677.

 

Lovins, Amory (1976) “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken”, Foreign Affairs, 55(1): 65–96. [PDF Lovins_1976.pdf]

 

and a nice commentary on the Lovins paper from The New York Times: [PDF Lovins_2008.pdf]



Don't read these, just have them handy for unit conversions:


Koomey, J. G. (2001) Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving: Ch 28 – 30, (Analytics Press: Oakland, CA), 125–142. [PDF Koomey_2001.pdf]


Norgaard, R. and S. von Meier. (1996) About Calculations and Unit Conversions (3 pages). [PDF Norgaard_1996.pdf]

 

Tables and charts of conversion factors. [PDF Conversions.pdf]

           

Supplemental: A bit more than back of the envelope, but not as much as it may seem:

http://www.gigatonthrowdown.org/



Lecture 3 (9/3) Energy Toolkit II: Basics of Combustion:

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 1, pages 3 – 17.

 

Masters, G. (1991) Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (Prentice Hall: NJ), pages 39–47. [PDF Masters_1991_Enviro_Chemistry.pdf]

 

ER200 only: Smil, V. (2000) “Energy in the Twentieth Century: Resources, conversions, costs, uses and consequences”, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 25, 21 – 51. [PDF Smil_2000.pdf]

 

 

Week 3 – Energy and Development

 

Lecture 4 (9/8) – Energy for ‘the South’ I: Energy Transitions and National Development:

 

Goldemberg, J. (1996) Energy, Environment, and Development (Earthscan: London, UK), 11 – 37. [PDF Goldemberg_1996.pdf]


International Energy Agency (2002), “Energy and Poverty,” in World Energy Outlook 2002. IEA Publications: Paris. p. 49 (2002). [PDF IEA_2002.pdf] (Skim: it is long and a bit dull, but a useful summary and reference.)
 

Jacobson, A. and D.M. Kammen. (2005).  “Science and Engineering Research that Values the Planet.” The Bridge. 35(4):  pp. 11-17. [PDF Jacobson_2005.pdf]

 

ER200 only: Rubin, EE, 15.3, Pages 639 – 659 (section on population, demographics and economic growth).

 

Supplemental: Leach, Gerald, (1992) “The Energy Transition,” Energy Policy. 20(2):116-123. [PDF Leach_1992.pdf]

 

 

Lecture 5 (9/10) – Energy for ‘the South’ II: Households and Gender:

 

Kammen, D. M. and Dove, M. R. (1997) “The virtues of mundane science”, Environment, 39(6): 10–15, 38–41. [PDF Kammen_1997.pdf]

 

Crewe, E. (1997) “The silent traditions of developing cooks”, Discourses of Development, R. D. Grillo and R. L. Stirrat, eds. (Berg: Oxford, UK), 59–81. [PDF Crewe_1997.pdf]

 

Kammen, D. M. (1995) “Cookstoves for the developing world,” Scientific American, 273, 72 - 75. [PDF Kammen_1995.pdf]

 

ER200: Goldemberg, J. et al. (1985) “Basic Needs and Much More with One Kilowatt per Hour.” Ambio. 14(4-5):  190-200. [Supplemental for ER100] [PDF Goldemberg_1985.pdf]


ER200: Bose, S. (1993) “Women, Work, and Household Electrification in Rural India”, in Money, Energy and Welfare (Oxford University Press: Bombay, India), Chapter V, pages 143 – 181. [PDF Bose_1993.pdf]


Supplemental:

Bailis, Ezzati, Kammen, (2005) “Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Petroleum Energy Futures in Africa” Science, 308 (5718): p. 98-103.  [PDF Bailis_2005.pdf]

           

Masera, O. R., Saatkamp, B. D., and Kammen, D.M.  (2000). “From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies: A Critique and Alternative to the Energy Ladder Model.” World Development, 28(12):  2083-2103. [PDF Masera_2000.pdf]


 

Week 4 – Hydrocarbon Energy

 

Lecture 6 (9/15) – Hydrocarbon Man: Coal, Oil, Industry & Society:

 

Friedman, Thomas L. (2006) “The First Law of Petropolitics”, Foreign Policy, 154: (28 – 36). [PDF Friedman_2006.pdf]

 

Campbell, Colin J., and Laherrere, Jean H. (1998) “The End of Cheap Oil”, Scientific American, March. 278(3)78–83. [PDF Campbell_2008.pdf]

 

Nef, John U. (1977) “An early energy crisis and its consequences”, Scientific American, November, pages 140 – 151. [PDF Nef_1977.pdf]

 

ER200: Farrell, Alex E., and Brandt, Adam R. (2006) “Risks of the oil transition,” Environmental Research Letters, 1, October 30. [PDF Farrell_2006_Risks.pdf]



Lecture 7 (9/17) Energy Toolkit III: Energy Thermodynamics:

 

Masters, G. (1991) Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (Prentice Hall: NJ), pages 15 – 29. [PDF Masters_1991_Energy.pdf]

 

ER200 (also a useful and different formulation for interested ER100 students): Cengel, Y. A. and Boles, M. A. (2001) Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach (McGraw Hill: New York), 116 - 122, 240 – 271, 397 – 400. [PDF Cengel_2001_Thermo.pdf]

 


Week 5 – Hydrocarbon Man

 

Lecture 8 (9/22) Energy Toolkit IV: Thermodynamics of Modern Power Plants:

 

Rubin, EE, Sections 5.1 - 5.4 (except 5.2.2 & 5.2.3); Pages 162 – 175, 179 – 196.

 

 

Lecture 10 (9/24) – Energy Toolkit V: Fossil Fuel Combustion, Emissions and Controls:

 

Masters, G. (1991) Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (Prentice Hall: NJ), pages 327–339. [PDF Masters_1991_Air_Pollution.pdf]

 

Anderson (2005), Sections 3.3-5.6, pp. 33-84. [PDF Anderson_2005.pdf]

 

Rubin, EE, Sections 5.5 – 5.6.3, Pages 196-215 (skip 5.6.1 - Nuclear Energy, pp. 212-213).

 

ER200: Enthalpy discussion form Anderson.

 

Supplemental: Beér, J. M. (2000) “Combustion technology developments in power generation in response to environmental challenges”, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 26, 301 – 327. [An advanced treatment of state-of-the-art fossil-fuel power plant design issues and opportunities]. [PDF Beer_2000.pdf]


Week 6 – Energy Financial Analysis and the Modern Energy Sector

 

Lecture 10 (9/29) – Energy Toolkit VI: Economic Analysis of Energy Systems:

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 13, Pages 545 – 577

 

ER200: Kammen and Pacca (2004) “Assessing the Costs of Electricity” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29 (1): p. 301-344 (2004). [Supplemental for ER100] [PDF Kammen_2004.pdf]

 

 

Lecture 11 (10/1) – Energy Toolkit VII: Life-Cycle and Cost-Benefit Analysis:

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 7, and Section 13.8 of Chapter 13, Pages 281 – 314, 577 – 583.

 

Pacca, S., Horvath, A., (2002) “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Building and Operating Electric Power Plants in the Upper Colorado River Basin” Env.Sci.Techn., 36(14), 3194-3200 [PDF Pacca_2002.pdf]

 

ER200: Matthews, H. S., Hendrickson, C. T. and Weber, C. L. (2008) “The importance of carbon footprint estimation boundaries”, ES&T, 42, 5839 – 5842.  [PDF Matthews_2008.pdf]


Review and use carbon calculator website:

http://www.coolcalifornia.org



Week 7 – Energy Systems: from Cradle to Grave & Energy Efficiency

  

Lecture 12 (10/6) – Evolution of the Modern Energy Economy:

 

Hirsh, Richard (1999) Power Loss (MIT University Press: Cambridge, MA) Section I, Pages 1 - 88.

 

 

Lecture 13 (10/8) – Energy Efficiency and Demand-Side Management:

 

Hirsh, Richard (1999) Power Loss (MIT University Press: Cambridge, MA), pages 90 – 117.

 

American Physical Society Review and Recommendations for Energy Efficiency (2008) Think Efficiency.

http://www.aps.org/energyefficiencyreport/

ER100: read executive summary & Chapter 1 (pages 6 - 27)

ER200: read executive summary and Chapter 3 (buildings, pages 52 – 85)

 

Supplemental: Energy efficiency is perhaps the most important, yet least discussed and taught component of our energy system. These websites, and energy use calculators provide a range of materials on energy efficiency. We will provide more information later about what specific sections of these websites you should focus on.

 

Contents

URL

LBL Energy Efficiency Standards

http://eappc76.lbl.gov/

US DoE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

http://www.eere.energy.gov

LBL’s Energy Use Forecasting

http://enduse.lbl.gov/ 

Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/eere/cef/

 


Week 8 – The Power Grid, Market Growth, Crisis, and Manipulation

 

Lecture 14 (10/13) – Carbon Capture and Sequestration

 

Friedmann, S. Julio. The scientific case for large CO2 storage projects worldwide: Where they should go, what they should look like, and how much they should cost. [PDF Friedmann_LSP.pdf]

ER200/PP284 only: Friedmann, S. Julio. Geological Carbon Dioxide Sequestration.[PDF Friedmann_GCDS.pdf]


Supplemental:

Orr, F. M. (2009) “Onshore geologic storage of CO2,” Science, 325, 1656. [PDF Orr_2009.pdf]


Rochelle, G. (2009) “Amine scrubbing for CO2 capture,” Science, 325,1652. [PDF Rochelle_2009.pdf]

Haszeldine, R.. S. (2009) “Carbon storage: Howe green can black be?,” Science, 325, 1647 [PDF Haszeldine_2009.pdf]

Clean Air Task Force. 2009. Coal Without Carbon: An Investment Plan for Federal Action. Online: http://www.catf.us/publications/view/101


CCSReg Policy Briefs. Online: http://www.ccsreg.org/policy_briefs.html


MIT. 2007. The Future of Coal. Online: http://web.mit.edu/coal/


World Resources Institute. Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Storage. Online: http://www.wri.org/publication/ccs-guidelines.

 

Lecture 15 (10/15) – Energy Policy Innovation: CA / Germany / Texas / China and …

 

Hirsch, Richard (1999) Power Loss (MIT University Press: Cambridge, MA), pages 119 – 131.


Masters, G. (2004) “Transmission and Distribution,” in Renewable and Efficient Power Systems (Wiley InterScience: New York), pages 145 – 151. [PDF Masters_2004_TD.pdf]

 

von Meier, Alexandra (2006), “Reliability” and “Security,” in Electric Power Systems: a conceptual introduction (John Wiley & Sons: New Jersey), pp. 229–234.

 

ER200/PPS284 only: Fairley, P. (2004) “The unruly power grid”, IEEE Spectrum, 13 August, 5 pages. [PDF Fairley_2004.pdf]

 

Duane, T. P. (2002) “Regulation’s Rationale: Learning from the California Energy Crisis”, Yale Journal on Regulation, 19(2), 471 – 540. [PDF Duane_2002.pdf] Long but very important!


Valerie J. Karplus (2007) Innovation in China’s Energy Sector, Working Paper #61, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (Stanford University)

Online: http://pesd.stanford.edu/publications/innovation_in_chinas_energy_sector/


For a good resource on US-China energy comparisons and commentaries, see:

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/10/energy_technology_innovation_policy.html?page_id=166

 

Reference: Glossary of electricity terms. [PDF Electricity_Glossary.pdf]

 

Trudeau, G. B. Doonesbury, cartoon. [PDF Trudeau_2001.pdf]



 


Week 9 – Mid-Term Exam

 

Class (10/20) – Midterm examination review

 

Class (10/22) – Midterm examination

 

Week 10 –Nuclear Power

 

Lecture 16 (10/27) – Nuclear Energy Physics and Engineering:

 

Deutch and Lester, (2004) Making Technology Work, Ch. 7: Nuclear Power and Its Fuel Cycle, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, p. 109-133. [PDF Deutch_2004.pdf]

 

Moore, P. (2005) “Greenpeace founder makes the case for nuclear power”, Nuclear News, June, p. 15. [PDF Moore_2005.pdf]

 

Supplemental: Excellent online material on reactor types and performance is available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/power.html

            In particular, review ‘About the NRC’, ‘Nuclear security’, and read about the events (power production and management) at one of the featured reactors, such as Diablo Canyon (under nuclear reactors) that provides power to northern California)

 

 

Lecture 17 (10/29) – Nuclear Waste, Risk & Economics, Fission/Fusion:

 

Rubin, EE, pages 63-68, 175-178.

 

Flynn, J. et al. (1997) “Overcoming Tunnel Vision: Redirecting the U.S. High-Level Nuclear waste program”, Environment, 39 (3): 6–11, 25–30. [PDFFlynn_1997.pdf]

 

Hultman, N., Koomey, J. G, and Kammen, D. M. (2007) “What history can tell us about the costs of future nuclear power”, Environmental Science & Technology, 41(7): 2088-2093. [PDF Hultman_2007.pdf]


Lake, J. A., Bennett, R. and Kotek, J. F. (2002) “Next Generation Nuclear Power”, Scientific American, Issue 1, 73–81. [PDF Lake_2002.pdf]

 

ER200: Peterson, P., W. Kastenberg, and M. Corradini.  (2006). “Nuclear Waste and the Distant Future.” Issues in Science and Technology.  Summer:  pp. 47-50. [PDF Peterson_2006.pdf]

 


Week 11 – Energy and Environmental Justice

& Renewable Energy Technologies – Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen

 

Lecture 18 (11/5) – Renewable Energy I: Solar Energy:

 

Rubin, EE, sections 5.6.2-5.9, Pages 213-229 (covers both lectures 20 and 21).

 

Kammen, D. M. (2006) “The Rise of Renewable Energy.” Scientific American. September, 84-93. [PDF Kammen_2006_Rise_of_Renewables.pdf]

 

Masters, G. (2004) “Wind Power Systems.” Renewable and Efficient Power Systems (Wiley InterScience: New York), pages 307 – 354 (pages 335-347 are supplemental), 371 – 378. [PDF Masters_2004_Wind.pdf]

 

Masters, G. (2004) “Photovoltaic Materials and Electrical Characteristics.” Renewable and Efficient Power Systems (Wiley InterScience: New York), pages 445 – 463. [PDF Masters_2004_PV.pdf]

 

ER200: Nemet, Gregory F. (2006) “Beyond the learning curve: factors influencing cost reductions in photovoltaics.” Energy Policy. 34 (2006) 3218–3232. [PDF Nemet_2006.pdf]


Supplemental:

Wadia, C., Alivisatos, P. and Kammen, D. M. (2009) Materials Availability Expands the Opportunity for Large-Scale Photovoltaics Deployment”, Environmental Science & Technology, 43, (6), 2072 - 2077. [PDF Wadiaetal2009.pdf]



Lecture 19 (11/3) – Energy and Environmental Justice & Hydropower:

 

Angelei, Ikal, 2009, Ethiopia's Gibe 3 Dam Endangers Kenya's Lake Turkana,http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/3923. See also IRN factsheet on the Gibe 3 Dam, http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/Gibe3FS_051509final.pdf.


Black Leadership Forum (2002), Air of Injustice: African Americans and Power Plant Pollution. Washington DC: Black Leadership Forum & Associate Organizations. [PDF BLF_2002.pdf]

 

Jones, Van (2007), “Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on 'Green-Collar' Jobs,” Ella Baker Center, May 22. [PDF Van_Jones_2007.pdf]

 

O’Rourke, D. and Connolly, S. (2003) “Just oil? The distribution of environmental and social impacts of oil production and consumption,” Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, 28, 587-617. [PDF Orouke_2003.pdf]

 

ER200: Pastor, Manuel, (2007) “Environmental Justice: Reflections from the United States”, Ch. 14 in Reclaiming Nature., pp. 351–376. [PDF Pastor_2007.pdf]

 

Supplemental: Revkin, Andrew C. (2007) “Poorest Nations will Bear Brunt as World Warms,” New York Times, April 1. [PDF Revkin_2007.pdf]

 

Supplemental: A sampling, all well worth exploring, of EJ websites includes:

 

Contents

URL

The EJ Information Page

http://eelink.net/EJ/

Climate Justice and People of Color

http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/climatechgpoc.html

Ken Saro-Wiwa and Shell Oil (Nigeria)

http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/nigeria/development

EJ Case Studies (includes great database of domestic and international cases – most are not energy-related)

http://www.umich.edu/%7Esnre492/cases.html

Center for Science and Environment (India)

http://www.cseindia.org/

Environmental Scorecard

http://www.scorecard.org/

EPA Toxic Release Inventory

http://www.epa.gov/tri/

EPA Environmental Justice Program

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html

Cal/EPA Environmental Justice Program

http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/

 


Week 12 – Renewable Energy II: Wind , Water, & Hydrogen and Fuel Cells


Lecture 20 11/10 – Wind and Water Power


EERE / NREL (2008) 20% Wind Energy by 2030

URL: www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf

ER100: pages 1 – 20

ER200: read either Chapter 2 “Turbine Technology” or Chapter 6 “Markets” and skim the other chapter based on your interest.


World Commission on Dams (2000). “Executive Summary,” in Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making, World Commission on Dams: South Africa. [PDF WCD_2000.pdf]


Supplemental: Paish, Oliver (2002) “Micro-hydropower: status and prospects,” Journal of Power and Energy, 216(1): 31–40.  [PDF Micro_Hydro_2007.pdf]


Lecture 21 (11/12) – Hydrogen and Fuel Cells:


Masters, G. (2004) “Fuel Cells,” in Renewable and Efficient Power Systems (Wiley InterScience: New York), pages 206-228. [PDF Masters_2004_Fuel_Cells.pdf]

 

ER200: Keith, D. W. and Farrell, A. E. (2003) “Rethinking hydrogen cars”, Science, 301, 315 – 316. [PDF Keith_2003.pdf]

 

Romm, J.  (2004). Hype about Hydrogen. Washington, D.C.:  Island Press. Chapters 1, 4, & 8. [PDF Romm_2004.pdf]

 

Ogden, J. (2006). “High Hopes for Hydrogen”, Scientific American, September, pp. 94-101. [PDF Ogden_2006.pdf]


Supplemental: Demirdoven, N. and Deutsch, J. (2004) “Hybrid cars now, fuel cell cars later”, Science, 305, 974 - 976. [PDF Demirdoven_2004.pdf]

 

For further reading, look over the websites below:

Contents

URL

Hydrogen Economy and Fuel Cells

http://rael.berkeley.edu/publications (“Hydrogen and Fuel Cells”)

The Clean Power Estimator

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/renewables/estimator/index.html

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/

http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/

Special issue on hydrogen in Science

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.305.5686.957



Week 13 – Transportation and Fuels

 

Lecture 22 (11/17) – Energy and Transportation: liquid, electric, and other

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 3, Pages 83-123

 

Friedman, D. J., Mark, J. Monahan, P., Nash, C. and Ditlow, C. (2001) Drilling in Detroit: Tapping Automaker Ingenuity to Build Safe and Efficient Automobiles (Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA), pages 1 – 32.  [PDF Friedman_2001.pdf]
ER100: Read the executive summary (4 pages) and at least skim 1 – 32.
ER200: Read all of 1–32.

 

American Physical Society Review and Recommendations for Energy Efficiency (2008) Think Efficiency.

http://www.aps.org/energyefficiencyreport/  Chapter 2 Transportation: pages 22 - 51

 

Bürer, Mary J., et al. (2004) “Location Efficiency as the Missing Piece of The Energy Puzzle: How Smart Growth Can Unlock Trillion Dollar Consumer Cost Savings.” Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club. [PDF Burer_2004.pdf]

 

Schipper, L. et al. (2009) “Cash for clunkers is a lemon” Washington Post, August 9, 2009 [Example policy memo] [PDF Schipper_2009.pdf]

 

Supplemental: Dueker, Kenneth J. (2002) “A critique of the urban transportation planning process: the performance of Portland's 2000 regional transportation plan.” Transportation Quarterly 56(2),  Spring. pp. 15-21. [PDF Dueker_2002.pdf]



Lecture 23(11/19) – Renewable Energy III: Modern Biomass:

 

Modern biofuel review paper [not yet available  IPCC]

 

ER200: Farrell A. E., Plevin, R. J. Turner, B. T., Jones, A. D. O’Hare, M. and Kammen, D. M. (2006) “Ethanol can contribute to energy and environmental goals,” Science, 311, 506 – 508. [PDF Farrell_2006_Ethanol.pdf]

 

USDA - Billion Ton Vision (http://feedstockreview.ornl.gov/pdf/billion_ton_vision.pdf)



Week 14 – Energy and the ‘Modernizing’ South

 

Lecture 24 (11/24) – Energy and the ‘Modernizing’ South:

 

PRC (June 2007), China National Climate Change Programme – Read parts 1, 2, and 5 (pg 4-23, 58-62). Skim parts 3 and 4 (pg 23-58). [PDF PRC_2007.pdf]

 

Yardley, J., & Revkin, A. (2007) “China Issues Plan on Global Warming, Rejecting Mandatory Caps on Greenhouse Gases,” New York Times, June 5. [PDF Yardley_2007.pdf]

 

Supplemental:

Bradsher, Keith (2006) “China to Pass U.S. in 2009 In Emissions,” New York Times, November 6, p. C1.[PDF Bradsher_2006.pdf]

  

Doig, Alison (1999) “Off-grid electricity for developing countries”, IEE Review, 45(1): 25-28. [PDF Doig_1999.pdf]

 

 

No Class (11/27) – Thanksgiving Holiday

 


Week 15 – Energy and the Global Environment

 

Lecture 25 (12/1) – Climate Change I: Energy and Climate:

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 12, Pages 470 – 537.

 

Kolbert, E. (2005).  “The Climate of Man–I.”  The New Yorker, April 25. [PDF Kolbert_2005_PartI.pdf]

 

Collins, William, et al. (2007) “The Physical Science Behind Climate Change.” Scientific American. August, 297,  pp 64–71. [PDF Collins_2007.pdf]

 

Copenhagen Climate Change Synthesis Report:

http://climatecongress.ku.dk/

ER200: Emanuel, Kerry (2005), “Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years.” Nature, 436: 686–688, August 4. [PDF Emanuel_2005.pdf]

 

Supplemental:

Kolbert, E. (2005).  “The Climate of Man–II.”  The New Yorker, May 2.[PDF Kolbert_2005_PartII.pdf]


Kolbert, E. (2005).  “The Climate of Man–III.”  The New Yorker, May 9. [PDF Kolbert_2005_PartIII.pdf]

 

 

Lecture 26 (12/3) – Climate Change II: Energy Policy:

 

Pacala, S., and Socolow, R. (2004) “Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next fifty years with current technologies”, Science, 305, 968 – 971. [PDF Pacala_2004.pdf]

 

C-ROAD

http://climateinteractive.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/pangaea-our-decision-maker-oriented-climate-simulator/

Review the simulator and develop a scenario to maximize emissions growth in ‘the South’, subject to the constraint that total global emissions stabilize under 450 ppmv.

 

Baer, P., et al. (2000). “Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility.” Science 289(5488): 2287.[PDF Baer_2002.pdf]

 

Kammen, D.M. and Nemet, G.F. (2005).  “Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget.”  Issues in Science and Technology. Fall: pp. 84-88. [PDF Kammen_2005_Shrinking_RD.pdf]

  

Supplemental:

Wirth, T. E., Gray, C. B., and Podesta, J. D. (2003) “The future of energy policy”, Foreign Affairs, 82(4): 132–155. [Also applies to lecture 24]. [PDF Wirth_2003.pdf]

 

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (2007)

http://securityandclimate.cna.org/report/

 

Sailor, W. C., Bodansky, D., Braun, C. Fetter, S. and van der Zwaan, R. (2000) “A nuclear solution to climate change”, Science, 288(5469): 1177–1178. [PDF Sailor_2000.pdf]

 

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.  [PDF IPCC_2007.pdf]

 

 

Week 16 – Energy Futures / What have we learned?

 

Lecture 26 (12/9) – Wrap-up and Integration: Energy Futures:

 

Wilk, R. R. (2002) “Culture and Energy Consumption”, in Energy: Science, Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability, Bent, R., Orr, L., and Barker, R., editors (Island Press: Washington, DC), pp. 109–129. [PDF Wilk_2002.pdf]

 

Friedman, Thomas (2006) “The Power of Green”, New York Times Magazine, April 15, p. 40 [PDF Friedman_2006_powerofgreen.pdf]

 

Supplemental: Revkin, A. (2007) “Poor to bear the brunt as world warms”, New York Times, April 1. [PDF Revkin_2007.pdf]


 

 

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