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EcoSwell: Improving energy resilience in marginalised communitiesPower cuts are frequent in many marginalised communities around the world, and can be very disruptive. Consider, for instance, medical staff who are forced to find a quick solution to avoid the…
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Implementing SDG 7: Affordable and clean energySDG 7 seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy. In this video, we talk to Jukka-Pekka Niemi, Marketing Manager of the Finnish company Wärtsilä…
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Introducing SDG 7: Affordable and clean energySDG 7 seeks to increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to…
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Q&A | Bill McKibben | 2019 Mar. 28In this Q&A from the Climate Action MOOC, author and environmental activist Bill McKibben discusses the need for fossil fuel divestment and how best to engage the public in the movement to end…
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Q&A | William Horak | 2019 Mar. 6In this Q&A from our Climate Action MOOC, Dr. Bill Horak, Chair of the Department of Nuclear Science and Technology at the Brookhaven National Lab, answers student questions about options for…
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Q&A | Ryan Jones |2018 Jan. 30Ryan Jones answers questions related to renewable energy. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Q&A | William Horak | 2017 Aug. 30William Horak answers questions relating to the 10th week of the Climate Action MOOC's 2017 run. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Energy: A Promising PathwayTo 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 until mid-century. Since the…
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources of EnergyThis chapter introduces the indispensable roles that renewable and nonrenewable resources could play in the post-conflict recovery phase, including how to make recovery more resilient. It highlights…
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Grid Management of Power Systems with High Penetration of Renewable EnergiesThere are many challenges that come with managing a power system, especially one with intermittent renewable energies, or those that are intrinsically time variable in the way they produce energy…
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Nuclear PowerIn this chapter, Bill Horak discusses nuclear technology basics. He talks about the role of Columbia in the start of nuclear energy. He describes the process of nuclear fission in detail and compares…
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