Energy Education:Chapter 10

Please read the following pages and watch the videos before the lectures on chapter 10:

10A:

• Intermittent electricity
• Sun, Solar radiation & Insolation
• 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
• Solar collector

10B:

• Wind power
• Wind
• Wind turbine and Types of wind turbines
• Wind farm
• Offshore wind turbine
• We also have made a model vertical wind turbine and a more in-depth model of a horizontal wind turbine.

10C:

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

10D:

• Geothermal energy
• Geothermal power plants and Geothermal electricity
• Geothermal district heating
• Geothermal industrial heat
• Tidal power
• Tidal force
• Tidal stream generator
• ground source heat pump
• Energy from ocean waves
• Hydrogen as an energy currency and Molecular hydrogen
• Fuel cell
• Electrical grid
• AC vs DC