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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Chemistry
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. David Cahen
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Igal Levine,
David Cahen
Course/Module description:
Critical Assessment of Energy, Sustainability & Climate change
Course/Module aims:
• Perform a critical assessment of selected topics in energy, sustainability & climate change
• Learn to use academic training, to distinguish facts from pseudo-facts
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Ability to arrive at your own understanding in the areas, covered by the course topics and to verîfy / assess, critically and independently, statements, from the realm of science and engineering/technology, made in daily life, using logic, common sense and order of magnitude estimates.
Attendance requirements(%):
85
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Two weekly hours will be divided to:
• 1 hour flipped classroom, where the students will be required to go over the presentations by themselves before hand, following a discussion in the 1st hour.
• In the 2nd hour, frontal class using a presentation
• As homework each participant has to fact-check at least one issue / numerical datum/statement or better even, correct a mistake in the weekly topic, for which the ppt is made available one week in advance on moodle.
Course/Module Content:
1 Overviews of Energy, Resources, Sustainability & Climate
2 Trying to restore the past/prevent the future: Clean up, Decarbonize, Geo-engineer
3 Science of natural photosynthesis, nature’s decarbonization
4 Biomass and Biofuels, including Food; more than meets the eye
5 Nexus of Water - Energy – Food - & other environmental costs
6-11 Energy transformations: a matter of scale and efficiency
6 Conversion Light Electrical: PV, LED, fundamentals, practice and limits.
7 Thermal (Solar, Nuclear, Geo, Hydro)(Mechanical)Electrical; physics reality
8 Nuclear thermal; why (not)?
Geothermal Mechanical; heat pumps
9 Storage: Geothermal; Hydro, chemical electrical, & more
10-11 Fuels:
10 Fossil Fuels, Fracking & some
11 Non-fossil Fuels: H2, H2 for CO2 - / N2 - reduction and hype
12 Transportation of things, electrons and information: facts, fiction, future
13 Critical Materials; Basics of life cycle analysis
14 Crystal ball: energy security; resource sustainability; how all-electric can we get?
Required Reading:
As needed for each of the weekly tasks
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 80 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 20 %
Additional information:
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