Nuclear Power, Cooking for the Global Pool Back to PSC 320 Main Website
Monday’s Class :
Monday’s Class :
Before Class:
- Please see my responses to your feedback from last week
- Finish PS#5 – I put my carbon footprint calculation (Excel) on the main class website by PS#5.
- Please see the video about Nuclear Power
- Please see the slides for today and Wednesday’s videos if you like.
During Class
- Hand in PS#5
After Class
Wednesday’s Class
Before Class
- See the video: How about a different kind of nuclear power: Fusion
- Please see this video / read the article. Subramanian The numbers in this paper are important. Please know them.
- Please read Kirk Smith’s short paper: What’s Cooking? There’s an amazing amount of attention about how poor people cook. Please come to class to answer the question “WHY do we care so much?”. Also Come prepared to ask or answer the questions: What’s the Carbon Market? What’s the Clean Development Mechanism? Why do we care about how poor people cook?
- PS #4 solutions are posted in two documents. A student copy gets most of the questions correctly. I added another document to pick up some of the things that were missed by the student. Please see both of them.
During Class
After Class
Thursday: Understand that air pollution from cooking kills more people than war, or AIDS, or car accidents
Before Activity
- Please see video Nuclear Safety
- Please see slides for today’s and tomorrow’s videos on nuclear.
- MUST READ! this short article from Forbes about deaths per unit of electricity generated. Which technology is the least, the most dangerous? Where do deaths from rooftop solar come from?
- Please see this video / read the article. Subramanian if you didn’t see it yesterday.
- Please see this video about our project developing an improved cookstove for implementation in Uganda. If you are interested to know more, you can read the entire scientific paper here.
During Activity
- Big Exam!!! We haven’t had one in a while.
- Our energy audit. How do we fill that spreadsheet?
- Time to work on project
After Activity
Friday:
Before Class
- Please see video about Nuclear Waste, Cost
- Read about the latest and perhaps last (?) US nuclear reactor to be built.
- Haas publication of fracking and learn by doing This is the learning curve article I told you about, but also mentions the future of nuclear.
During Class
- Local nuclear activists are our guests for discussion and debate!
After Class
- Before end of day, load the demographic information about your community – what are their Challenges? Advantages? Concerns? Threats?
- Start your second self intervention: Empathy Self-Intervention. Recognize when you’ve “otherized” someone – established them as “the other” and see how this gives you the ability to dismiss the validity of their perspective. Then endeavor to “walk a mile in their shoes”, see their behavior as something that you do, see the world through their eyes. Recognize how they are the same as you, or where you have similarities.
What I did not assign: