Energy, Environment, and Climate
ENV2120.01
Course Description
Summary
The comforts and amenities of modern life require vast inputs of energy to power an industrial society. While the benefits of industrial society are significant, if unevenly shared, the environmental costs of energy extraction and production are significant. These environmental costs are also unevenly shared. This course will cover the basic physics of energy conversion, the history of energy use since the industrial revolution, the environmental costs associated with energy production, and how we might design systems in the future to lower these environmental costs.
Learning Outcomes
- A basic understanding of the physics of energy conversion
- Knowledge of how to explore and extract energy and environmental data from government websites (if they still exist)
- A basic understanding of air pollution and the physics controlling Earth鈥檚 climate
- An understanding of how Climate Change predictions are made
Cross List
- Earth Science
- Physics