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Staying current for Chapter 3 Articles from 2008–2014 Stay current index page for Chapter 3 { Energy Use Contents } 2014-10-10. Satellite sees hot spot of methane in US Southwest.  Excerpt: A surprising hot spot of the potent global-warming gas methane hovers over part of the southwestern U.S., according to satellite data. …The higher level of […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 Articles from 2001–2007 Stay current index page for Chapter 3 { Energy Use Contents } 2007 9 October 2007. A Quest for Energy in the Globe’s Remote Places. By JAD MOUAWAD, NY Times. Excerpt: HAMMERFEST, Norway – For a quarter-century, energy executives were tantalized by vast quantities of natural gas in one […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { Energy Use Contents } 2014-06-02. Berkeley Lab Study Highlights Growing Energy Impact of Internet Video Streaming. Excerpt: How much CO2 was emitted when you streamed that movie from Netflix last night? It’s a question few people think about, but now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory …have analyzed the energy usage […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 See non-chronological resources { Energy Use Contents } 2017-01-22. See the 1,000-Year-Old Windmills Still in Use Today National Geographic.  Excerpt: 2min 49sec video These amazing windmills are among the oldest in the world. Located in the Iranian town of Nashtifan, initially named Nish Toofan, or “storm’s sting,” the windmills have withstood winds […]

Chapter 5 { Energy Use Contents } In Thomas Edison’s view, persistence was a key to success: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” In his endeavor to build a better storage battery, he made 8,000 attempts. “Well, at least we know 8,000 things that don’t work,” he is reported to have said. Returning to […]

{ Energy Use Contents } { All GSS Books } Amatek, Inc., Solar Energy Handbook, 2nd ed., Chilton Book Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1984. DeCicco, John, Green Guide to Cars and Trucks: Model Year 1999; and Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 1998; plus many others, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy “Another Crude Year,” […]

ENERGY USE is in the GSS theme 4, Underlying Causes and Possible Solutions. See Overview. Contents Chapters Investigations Stay Current 1. How People Use Energy 1.1. Recent History Chapter 1 2. Energy Basics 2.1. Create Electricity2.2. Electric Motor2.3. Transformations Chapter 2 3. Fossil Fuels 3.1. Energy Units Chapter 3 4. Field Trip to a Power […]

{ Energy Flow Contents } See also… Ecosystem Change, Chapter 2 (Energy Through a System) and Chapter 5 (Carbon in the Biosphere) Losing Biodiversity, Chapter 5 (Soil, the Living Skin of the Earth) and Chapter 7 (One Global Ocean) 2021-04-22. Microbes are siphoning massive amounts of carbon from Earth’s tectonic plates. By Raleigh McElvery, Science Magazine. Excerpt: […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } 2024-02-01. The Coral Chronicles. [https://www.science.org/content/article/remote-pacific-island-clues-el-ninos-future-preserved-ancient-reefs] By PAUL VOOSEN, Science. Excerpt: …The El Niño event, now at its peak, is driving weather extremes not just in Vanuatu, but all over the planet. Drought has struck Australia, as well as the Amazon, where intolerably […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological Resources. { Energy Flow Contents } -•-2023-12-02. 2023 Hurricane Season Ends, Marked by Storms That ‘Really Rapidly Intensified’. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/02/us/hurricane-season-2023-rapid-intensification.html] By William B. Davis and Judson Jones, The New York Times. Excerpt: The 2023 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific came to an end this week, with both basins […]