Introductory Concepts
1. Brief History of Our Relationship with Energy
2. Defining and Quantifying Energy
3. Flows and Conversions of Energy and Matter
4. Defining and Quantifying Sustainability
5. Laws of Thermodynamics
Energy Production Today
6. Fossil Fuels and Pollution
7. Coal
8. Oil
9. Natural Gas
10. Unconventional Sources of Fossil Fuels
11. Nuclear Energy
12. Hydroelectric Power
13. Production and Storage of Electricity
Energy Consumption Today
14. Energy Use in Transportation
15. Agricultural Energy Use
16. Energy Use in Buildings: Residential and Commercial Consumption
17. Industrial Energy Consumption
Energy Transitions
18. Sustainability Transition: Why, When, How Long?
19. Climate Change
Energy Production Tomorrow
20. Biomass as a Source of Energy
21. Wind Energy
22. Solar Energy
23. Hydrogen as a Fuel
24. Geothermal Energy
Energy Consumption Tomorrow
25. Changes in Global Energy Consumption Patterns
26. Energy Conservation
27. Future of Cars
28. Energy Conservation in Architectural Design and Urban Planning
Ognjen S. Miljanic, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the use of porous materials to capture greenhouse gases. He has been teaching energy and sustainability to diverse student audience for more than 10 years.Joseph Pratt earned a PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins University (1976). He taught at UC Berkeley, the Harvard Business School (as a visitor), and Texas A&M University before accepting a chaired position in history and business at the University of Houston, where he retired as an emeritus professor in 2016. With Ognjen S. Miljanic, he helped create a minor in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Houston.