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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…

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A World Without Modern Energy

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Our most important mission and goal is to increase access to modern energy in poor places in the world so that simple daily tasks can be achieved much more easily and…

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The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of…

The 3 Pillars of the Deep Decarbonization of Energy Systems

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How can we achieve deep decarbonization while satisfying the conditions for continued economic growth and development and growing prosperity? CO2 energy related…

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Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture,…

Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industry

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This lecture continues the investigation into the limits of growth, crucially noting that some limits have already been hit and that the goals of sustainable development…

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The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part I

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How does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic…

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Zero-dimensional Energy Balance Model…

Zero-dimensional Energy Balance Model Demonstration

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Looks at a demonstration of a zero dimensional energy balance model, showing the different variables and their effects on the model. This video is licensed under the…

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One-Dimensional Energy Balance Models

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Introduces the one-dimensional energy balance model, building upon previous model's equations. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Expressing a Zero-Dimensional Energy Model as a…

Expressing a Zero-Dimensional Energy Model as a Linear Equation

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Explains the zero dimensional energy balance model, including how to calculate it using a linear approximation. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Nanomaterial-catalyzed hydrothermal treatment of…

Nanomaterial-catalyzed hydrothermal treatment of wastewater towards water reuse

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Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a thermal process that converts waste biomass into energy and materials. It is termed a carbon negative process because it is green…

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Clean Energy and Industry

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This chapter addresses clean energy and industry as a key transformation for the SDGs. Professor Sachs opens with a brief discussion of rising CO2 emissions, followed by…

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Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and…

Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and Mining

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Jeffrey Sachs notes that it is, on the whole, good to have mineral resources or coal, oil, or gas resources as major inputs to the economy; major inputs to economic…

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The decision chain of natural resource…

The decision chain of natural resource management: Part I

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Discovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per…

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The Earth's Energy Balance

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This lecture discusses the basics of climate science in order to support the discussion of deep decarbonization and other actions related to greenhouse gas emissions. As…

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Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

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in this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He…

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Environmental Impact Assessments and…

Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Due Diligence

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Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural…

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Energy: A Promising Pathway

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To develop within a safe operating space, there must be a global transition to a renewable energy system, as growing economies are projected to have growing energy use…

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