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 20^th Century? What about the 21^st?

• 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. [ 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. [ Fialka_2006.pdf]

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

Doerr, J. and Immlet, J. (2009) “Falling behind on green tech”, The Washington Post  (8/3/09). [ 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. [ Lovins_1976.pdf]

 

and a nice commentary on the Lovins paper from The New York Times: [ 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. [ Koomey_2001.pdf]

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

 

Tables and charts of conversion factors. [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ Goldemberg_1996.pdf]

International Energy Agency (2002), “Energy and Poverty,” in World Energy Outlook 2002. IEA Publications: Paris. p. 49 (2002). [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ Crewe_1997.pdf]

 

Kammen, D. M. (1995) “Cookstoves for the developing world,” Scientific American, 273, 72 - 75. [ 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] [ 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. [ 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.  [ 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. [ 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). [ Friedman_2006.pdf]

 

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

 

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

 

ER200: Farrell, Alex E., and Brandt, Adam R. (2006) “Risks of the oil transition,” Environmental Research Letters, 1, October 30. [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ Masters_1991_Air_Pollution.pdf]

 

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

 

 

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”. [ Friedmann_LSP.pdf]

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

Supplemental:

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

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

Haszeldine, R.. S. (2009) “Carbon storage: Howe green can black be?,” Science, 325, 1647 [ 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. [ 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. [ Fairley_2004.pdf]

 

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

 

Trudeau, G. B. Doonesbury, cartoon. [ 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. [ Deutch_2004.pdf]

 

Moore, P. (2005) “Greenpeace founder makes the case for nuclear power”, Nuclear News, June, p. 15. [ 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. [Flynn_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. [ Hultman_2007.pdf]

Lake, J. A., Bennett, R. and Kotek, J. F. (2002) “Next Generation Nuclear Power”, Scientific American, Issue 1, 73–81. [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ Masters_2004_Wind.pdf]

 

Masters, G. (2004) “Photovoltaic Materials and Electrical Characteristics.” Renewable and Efficient Power Systems (Wiley InterScience: New York), pages 445 – 463. [ 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ BLF_2002.pdf]

 

Jones, Van (2007), “Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on 'Green-Collar' Jobs,” Ella Baker Center, May 22. [ 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. [ Orouke_2003.pdf]

 

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

 

Supplemental: Revkin, Andrew C. (2007) “Poorest Nations will Bear Brunt as World Warms,” New York Times, April 1. [ 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. [ WCD_2000.pdf]

Supplemental: Paish, Oliver (2002) “Micro-hydropower: status and prospects,” Journal of Power and Energy, 216(1): 31–40.  [ 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. [ Masters_2004_Fuel_Cells.pdf]

 

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

 

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

 

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

Supplemental: Demirdoven, N. and Deutsch, J. (2004) “Hybrid cars now, fuel cell cars later”, Science, 305, 974 - 976. [ 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.  [ 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. [ Burer_2004.pdf]

 

Schipper, L. et al. (2009) “Cash for clunkers is a lemon” Washington Post, August 9, 2009 [Example policy memo] [ 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. [ 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. [ 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). [ 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. [ Yardley_2007.pdf]

 

Supplemental:

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

  

Doig, Alison (1999) “Off-grid electricity for developing countries”, IEE Review, 45(1): 25-28. [ 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. [ Kolbert_2005_PartI.pdf]

 

Collins, William, et al. (2007) “The Physical Science Behind Climate Change.” Scientific American. August, 297,  pp 64–71. [ 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. [ Emanuel_2005.pdf]

 

Supplemental:

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

Kolbert, E. (2005).  “The Climate of Man–III.”  The New Yorker, May 9. [ 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. [ 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.[ 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. [ 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]. [ 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. [ 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.  [ 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. [ Wilk_2002.pdf]

 

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

 

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