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Fall wk 4 – Mon.18.Oct.04 Welcome, roll, questions Fossil Fuels (1 hr) Energy Ch.6, Earth Ch.16 PIQ + seminar Exercise on rising CO2 levels (1 hr) 3:00 Clean Energy Fair Looking ahead Fossil Fuels Energy Ch.6: FF: Impacts and technologies Coal: tech use, present and future Coal impacts, transportation and prep, combustion, disposal; Controls and Costs Transnational effects: acid rain, CO Ecocentric ethics Earth Ch.16: Earth resources Natural resource, water, soils (p.367) Fossil fuels (p.384) Measured rising CO2 levels Predict future CO2 levels Current (2004) levels: 370 ppm (End of Oil, Roberts, p.125) Find an equation for Linear rise Exponential rise Oscillations We’ll put it all together, then PREDICT CO2 level in 2100, based on (a) or (b) Looking ahead COME ON TIME to Seminar tonight please be ready to start at 5:00 sharp Tuesday Biodiesel debate Practice with physics and calculus HW Tour the tunnels and steam plant at 3:30 TA here Wed.1-5, in the QRC Fri 10-noon Thursday: continue Trig and Thermal Next week Monday: midterm exam online Conferences (sign up for times tomorrow) required Blog workshop No seminar class (conferences with Sem students) Read Energy Appendix B Tuesday: Required workshops Research planning #2 Library workshop #2 Thus: Present your midquarter Research Proposal (sign up for times tomorrow) PSE bill * Energy Systems, EJZ Intro to Energy, Cassedy Grossman *