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

 

 

Professor Daniel Kammen

326 Barrows Hall

Energy and Resources Group & Goldman School of Public Policy

Email: kammen@berkeley.edu

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

 

Lectures ER100 (cc # 27359) & ER200 (cc # 27425)

Lectures Pub Pol C184 (cc # 77118) & Pub Pol C284 (cc # 77268)

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

 

ER100 / 184 Sections

ER200 / 284 Sections

GSI

Section

Day/time

Rm. No.

CC#

Section

Day/time

Rm. No.

CC#


101

T 1-2

151 Barrows

27362

101

T 1-2

151 Barrows

27428

Sarah

102

T 1-2

185 Barrows

27365

102

T1-2

185 Barrows

27431

Christian

103

W 9-10

155 Barrows

27368

103

W 9-10

155 Barrows

27434

Imran

104

W 9-10

174 Barrows

27371

104

W 1-2

174 Barrows

27437

Christian

105

M 9-10

175 Barrows

27374

105

M 9-10

175 Barrows

27440

Sarah

106

M 9-10

174 Barrows

27377

106

M 9-10

174 Barrows

27443

Joe

107

W 9-10

175 Barrows

27380

107

W 9-10

175 Barrows

27446

Kevin

108

T 1-2

155 Barrows

27383

108

T 1-2

155 Barrows

27449

Kevin

109

M 1-2

175 Barrows

27386

108

M 1-2

175 Barrows

27452

Joe

110

T 4-5

109 Dwinelle

27389

110

T 4 - 5

109 Dwinelle

27455

Imran

 

 

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’?

• What tools do you need to address these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective?

 

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 technically and socially deep 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 (in total 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 depend on availability, but will likely include:

·        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

 

Christian Casillas

Kevin Fingerman

Joe Kantenbacher

Imran Shiekh

Sarah Swanbeck

 

Office

399 Barrows Hall

399 Barrows Hall

399 Barrows Hall

399 Barrows Hall

 GSPP Living Room

Office Hours

Wednesday, 10-noon

Tuesday, 4-6

Monday, 3-5

Friday, 10-11

Tuesday, 9-11 

Wednesday, 2-4 

Email   
(@ berkeley.edu)

cecasillas

kfingerman

kantner

isheikh

swanbeck

 

 

The best way to reach us is by email or by coming to the office hours.

 

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

 

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

Date

Lecturer

Lecture #/Topic

1

8-26

Kammen

1.        How Energy Use Shapes Society & the Environment

2

8-31

Kammen

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

9-2

Kammen

3.        Energy Toolkit II: Fuels, Energy Content & Basics of Combustion

3

9-7

Kammen

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

9-9

Kammen

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

4

9-14

Kammen

6.        Hydrocarbon Man: Coal, Oil, Industry & Society [Energy Movie Night]

9-16

Kammen

7.        Energy Toolkit III: Energy Thermodynamics

5

9-21

Kammen

8.        Energy Toolkit IV: Thermodynamics of Modern Power Plants

9-23

Kammen

9.        Evolution of the Modern Energy Economy

6

9-28

Kammen

10.     Energy Toolkit VI: Economic Analysis of Energy Systems

9-30

Sanstad

11.     Energy Efficiency and Demand-Side Management

7

10-5

Horvath

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

10-7

none

Canceled

8

10-12

Callaway

13.     The Grid

10-14

Borgeson

14.     Buildings and Energy

9

10-19

GSIs

In class mid-term review (optional)

10-21

You!

Midterm Exam, In class

10

10-26

Peterson

15.     Nuclear Energy I: Physics and Engineering – Fission/Fusion

10-28

Carson

16.     Nuclear Energy II: Waste, Risk & Economics

11

11-2

O’Rourke

17.     Energy and Environmental Justice

11-4

Prull

18.     Renewable Energy I: Solar Energy

12

11-9

Casillas

19.  Renewable Energy II: Wind and Water Power

11-11

 

HOLIDAY

13

11-16

Lipman

20. Renewable Energy III: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

11-18

Gopal

21. Renewable Energy IV: Industrial Bioenergy

14

11-23

Lipman

22. Transportation systems and policies

11-25

 

HOLIDAY THANKSGIVING

15

11-30

Fung

23. Climate Change I: Energy and Climate

12-2

Callaway

24. Climate Change II: Energy  Policy

 

Final Exam Group: 5: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010   8-11A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Problem Set #

Assigned

Due

Coverage

1

8/31

9/9

Short warm-up problems; analysis of utility bills; making unit analysis your friend, and getting comfortable with the myriad of energy units. 

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

9/14

9/23

Energy use at household and national scales; basic thermodynamics; combustion.

3

9/28

10/7

Thermodynamics of energy systems, combustion of various fuels; comparisons of energy conversion efficiencies, emissions, financial analysis of power plants.  Energy economics.

4

10/7*

10/14

Life-cycle analysis; learning curves; energy efficiency, evolution of the modern energy system.

5

10/26

11/4

Environmental justice; energy efficiency and conservation; the grid; nuclear energy.

6

11/9

11/18

Nuclear energy and waste, renewable energy systems, fuel cells and hydrogen.

 

7

11/23*

12/2

Biomass energy, transportation, energy and climate, and climate policy.

* Note: non-standard assignment date and due date so you can have the graded exam back before the mid-term.  No late assignments accepted for PS #4.

 

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 (8/26) – 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 you 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)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?pagewanted=all

 

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/02/AR2009080201563.html

 

 


Week 2 – Methods in Energy Analysis

 

Lecture 2 (8/31) 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]

 

Smil, V. (1999) Energies: An Overview of Concepts and Units, pages 1 – 7.  [Smil_Energies_1999.pdf]

 

and a nice commentary on the Lovins paper from The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07tier.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

 

Don’t read these, just have them handy for unit conversions and significant figures, etc …:

 

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]  [ER100 only]

 

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 (9/2) 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]

 

ER200/284 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 (9/7) – 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]

 

The World Bank Group (2009) Energy Strategy Approach Paper of the Sustainable Development Network. [WBG_2009.pdf]

 

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: 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 (9/9) – 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]

           

 

Week 4 – Hydrocarbon Energy

 

Lecture 6 (9/14) – 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_1998.pdf]

 

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

 

Oil: The Long Goodbye, Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/47222
Note
: Registration required. The primary article, "It's Still the One" by Daniel Yergin, can also be found here.

 

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 (9/16) Energy Toolkit III: Energy Thermodynamics:

 

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

 

Supplemental/reference for students with thermodynamics background and interests: 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 (9/21) 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.

 

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).

 

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]

 

 

Lecture 9 (9/23) – Evolution of the Modern Energy Economy:

 

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


Week 6 – Energy Financial Analysis and the Modern Energy Sector

 

Lecture 10 (9/28) – Energy Toolkit VI: Economic Analysis of Energy Systems:

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 13, Pages 545 – 577

 

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

 

 

Lecture 11 (9/30) – Energy Efficiency and Demand-Side Management:

 

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

 

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/

Executive summary & Chapter 1 (pages 6 - 27)

 

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 7 – Energy Systems: from Cradle to Grave (Life-cycle analysis)

 

 

Lecture 12 (10/5) – Life-cycle and Cost-Benefit Analysis

 

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]

 

Rubin, Section 13.4, Life-cycle cost, 556 – 562.



Week 8 –  The Grid and Buildings

 

 

Lecture 13 (10/12) – Electricity Grids: Managing the Network:

 

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. [von_Meier_2006.pdf]

 

ER200: Fairley, P. (2004) “The unruly power grid”, IEEE Spectrum, 13 August, 5 pages.

 

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

 

 


Lecture 14 (10/14) – Energy Efficiency and Buildings:

 

David B. Goldstein (2008) Extreme Efficiency: How Far Can We Go If We Really Need To? ACEEE Summer Study Paper.  [Goldstein_2008.pdf]

 

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

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

Chapter 3 (buildings, pages 52 – 85)

 

And for a look at why it is so hard, ask Dilbert:

Adams, S. (2010) “How I (Almost) Saved the Earth”, The Wall Street Journal, August 21:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704868604575433620189923744.html

 


Week 9 – Mid-Term Exam

 

Class (10/19) – Midterm examination review

 

Class (10/21) – Midterm examination

 

 


Week 10 –Nuclear Power

 

Lecture 15 (10/26) – Nuclear Energy Physics and Engineering – Fission/Fusion:

 

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 16 (10/28) – Nuclear Waste, Risk & Economics:

 

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 & Solar

 

Lecture 17 (11/2) – Energy and Environmental Justice:

 

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. [Orourke_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: 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

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

Center for Science and Environment (India)

http://www.cseindia.org/

EPA Toxic Release Inventory

http://www.epa.gov/tri/ & http://www.scorecard.org/

EPA Environmental Justice Program

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html & http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EnvJustice/

 

Lecture 18 (11/2) – Renewable Energy I: Solar Energy:

 

Solar Vision Study: Executive summary and Chapters PV Technology, Policies.

 

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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2005.06.020

 

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]

Week 12 – Renewable Energy II: Wind and Water Power


Lecture 19 11/9 – Wind and Water Power

 

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]

 

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]

 

ER200 Examine in detail one of the case studies in the World Commission on Dams website at http://www.dams.org/kbase/studies/.

 

Supplemental: Paish, Oliver (2002) “Micro-hydropower: status and prospects,” Journal of Power and Energy, 216(1): 31–40.  [Paish_2002.pdf]

 

  

Week 13 –Fuels for Transportation

 

Lecture 20 (11/16) – 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]

 

Lecture 21 (11/18) – Industrial Bioenergy

 

 

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

 

Rubin, EE, Chapter 3, Pages 83-123.

 

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]

 

Supplemental:

Special Report on Renewable Energy Systems: Modern biofuel (Ch 2) [Available 10/1/2010 from the IPCC]

 

 


Week 14 – Transportation Systems

 

Lecture 22 (11/23) – Transportation systems and policy:

 

Sager, J., Lemoine, D, Apte, J. and Kammen, D. M. (2010) “Sustainable transportation systems and mobility”, Available 10/1/2010.

 

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

 

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

 

ER 200: 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]

 

 


Week 15 – Energy and the Global Environment

 

Lecture 23 (11/30) – 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.

 

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

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

 


Lecture 24 (12/2) – 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-uclimate-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_2000.pdf]

 

David J Frame and Cameron Hepburn (2010) “An issue of trust: state corruption, responsibility and greenhouse gas emissions”, Environ. Res. Lett. 5 (2010), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014004 [Frame_2010.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]


ER200: 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]

 

Supplemental: 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]


World Development Report. (2010). "Development and Climate Change." [WDR_2010.pdf]


Fallows, James. (2010). "Dirty Coal, Clean Future." The Atlantic. [link]