Duurzame Energie: zon, wind en water

Renewable Energy: Sun, Wind and Water

FEW Course: Spring 2012

Teacher: dr. R.J. Wijngaarden

FEW, VU University Amsterdam

General:

• Schedule
• This you need to know and this you should be able to do
• Study-load
• Correspondence between the lecture notes and the book of Andrews and Jelly
• On rules and marks
• VU schedule site
• Home page  dr. R.J. Wijngaarden

Sample examination

• Sample examination
• Answers to the sample examination

Home work:

• Home work assignments are on Blackboard

Reader:

• Lecture notes (New version 26 April 2012, with King Hubbert method).

Powerpoint Presentations:

• DuurzEn1Intro.pdf
• DuurzEn2FeelingForEnergy.pdf
• DuurzEn3GlobalEnergyAndClimate.pdf
• DuurzEn4HeatBalanceOfEarth.pdf
• DuurzEn5ThermalEnergy1.pdf
• DuurzEn6ThermalEnergy2.pdf
• DuurzEn7ThermalEnergy3.pdf
• DuurzEn8FluidDynamicsWater.pdf
• DuurzEn9FluidDynamicsWind.pdf
• DuurzEn10PV.pdf

Interesting books on energy:

• Energy Science - by John Andrews and Nick Jelly
• Sustainable Energy without the hot air - by  David MacKay
• Fundamentals of renewable energy processes - by Aldo Vieira Da Rosa -  (844pag) ISBN-13: 9780123746399 VU-link
• Renewable Energy 3rd ed - by Bent Sorensen - (928pag) ISBN-13: 9780126561531
• Energie survival gids - by Jo Hermans (in Dutch)

Interesting Links:

• GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) temperature anomaly: maps, graphs and data
• Statistical data price and volume of energy carriers
• Oil market report
• Monthley oil market report full in pdf
• Excel sheet with supply, demand and prices of most countries and many years (BP)
• Global climate and energy project - Stanford University:  Link collection
• Population and pollution running statistics
• World crude oil weekly spot prices

• IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• IEA - International Energy Agency
• USA Energy Information Administration
• Energie.nl (ECN)
• Nederlands Onderzoekplatvorm Duurzame Energie
• EarthTrends: Searchable Database - Climate and Atmosphere
• MIT Open Course ware - Physics of Energy
• Hyper Physics
• natuurkunde.startpagina.nl