SUBJECT
Energetics and environment
lecture
master
2
Semester 2
Spring semester
A considerable fraction of the environmental problems are connected with the huge energy production, which is a prerequisite of sustainable maintenance of human societies. The course deals in details of the energy production methods of human societies. We discuss the basics of the energetic, we explain the energy production methods presently used. It will be pointed out what are the weaknesses of the fossil based energy consumption. The renewable energy production methods will be explained in details. The advantages and environmental problems will be pointed our.
Kiss Ádám: Energetics and environment, lecture notes, available ont he Internet; A. Fainberg and R. Howes: The Energy Sourcebook: a Guide to Technology, Resources and Policy, Springer Verlag (1991), Egbert Boeker, Rienk van Grondelle: „Environmental Physics”, Wiley and Sons, 1999, ISBN 0 471 997803,
B. Diekmann, K. Heinloth: „Energie”, Teubner Studienbücher, 1997, ISBN 3-519-13057-2, (in German)