Energy Education:Chapter 9

Please read the following pages and watch the videos before the lectures on chapter 9:

9A:

• Sun, solar radiation & insolation
• Solar energy, Solar power, Earth's energy flow
• photovoltaic cell
• Solar thermal power plant
• Passive solar heating and cooling, trombe wall & solar chimney
• solar water heating
• hybrid lighting

9B:

• Wind power
• Wind
• Wind turbine
• Wind farm
• Offshore wind turbine

9C:

• Hydropower
• Dams and Hydroelectric facility
• Turbine
• Hydraulic head
• Reservoir vs. Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity
• Hypoxia

9D:

• Geothermal energy
• Geothermal power plants and Geothermal electricity
• Geothermal district heating
• Geothermal industrial heat
• Tidal power
• Tidal force
• Tidal stream generator