SES 100 - Green Strings: Tying Energy Efficiency and Energy Sustainability Together

• Demonstrate Understanding of Energy Fundamentals.
  • Define energy.
  • Identify the most common types of currently used energy.
  • Explain the energy conservation principl
  • Distinguish between renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
  • Discuss and diagram a typical energy pathway from production to end
    usage.
  • Identify common energy conversion processes and the efficiencies of
    those processes.
• Identify Energy Pathways for Conventional, Non-Renewable
  Energy Resources.
  • Identify the sources and production processes for fossil fuel based
    energy, including coal, oil, and natural gas.
  • Identify the end uses for fossil fuel based energy.
  • Discuss the conversion of fossil fuel energy into other energy forms,
    including thermal and electrical energy.
  • Research and/or evaluate typical efficiencies for the conversion of
    fossil fuels into other energy forms.
  • Perform a pathway analysis for nuclear and for hydroelectric energy
    systems.
• Evaluate the Economic and Environmental Impact of Non-
  Renewable Energy.
  • Identify the major energy consuming sectors in the national economy.
  • Identify the criteria for assessing economic impact of an energy
    system.
  • Critique current methods for evaluating economic impac
  • Apply a simplified model for estimating the cost of conventional energy
    use in the transportation sector and the residential sector.
  • Compare, economically, strategies for improving efficiency of energy.
  • Define environmental impact and the concept of the carbon footprint.
  • Identify and/or develop criteria for assessing economic impact of
    an energy system.
  • Critique current methodologies for evaluating environmental impact.
• Discuss and Critique Renewable and sustainable Energy
  Resources.
  • Define sustainability and the notion of green energy strategies.
  • Diagram the pathways from solar energy to electrical energy
    conversion and from solar and to thermal energy conversion.
  • Explain the principal features and operation of a passive solar system
    and of a photovoltaic solar system.
  • Diagram and explain the principal features and operation of a wind
    electrical generating system.
  • Outline the processes in the manufacture of biomass fuels.
  • Diagram and explain the operation of a geothermal electrical energy
    generating system.
  • Compare the economic and environmental impacts of an alternative
    energy generating system (solar systems, wind power systems, biomass
    based systems, and/or geothermal power generating systems) and a
    the conventional energy system (fossil fuel based, nuclear, and/or
    hydroelectric energy systems).