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    Energy 101: The Big Picture

    Georgia Institute of Technology via Coursera

    12 Reviews 478 students interested
    Found in Environmental Science
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    • Provider Coursera
    • Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
    • Session Upcoming
    • Language English
    • Certificate Paid Certificate Available
    • Effort 5-7 hours a week
    • Start Date
    • Duration 6 weeks long
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    Overview

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    As a society and individually, we use energy every moment of our lives to improve our quality of life. Energy 101 will develop the big picture and connect the details of our energy use, technology, infrastructure, impact, and future.

    Syllabus

    Syllabus and Introduction
    -Welcome

    Energy, Society and Economy
    -This module introduces the concepts of impact of energy issues on society, sources of energy, role of fossil fuels and issues of oil import

    Natural Gas Liquids, Ethanol & Energy Independence
    -This module targets issues on Energy Independence, Oil Supply and Price

    Solar and Wind Power Resources
    -This module explore renewable energy sources

    Energy Conversion
    -This module concentrates on topics in Energy Conversion

    Electric Power Technologies
    -This module explores topics in Power Plant Technologies and Carbon Emissions

    Alternative Fueled Cars and Other Energy Issues
    -This module explores Electric Car, Carbon Emission and summarizes concepts of this course

    Taught by

    Sam Shelton

    Tags

    sustainability

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    Reviews for Coursera's Energy 101: The Big Picture
    3.3 Based on 12 reviews

    • 5 star 8%
    • 4 stars 33%
    • 3 stars 33%
    • 2 stars 25%
    • 1 star 0%

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    JL
    Jackie L
    4.0 3 years ago
    Jackie is taking this course right now, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
    This class was very interesting, and I enjoyed the content...but I simply didn't have time to complete the necessary work (thus resulting in me dropping the course.) I have a background in sustainability, so it was easy for me to follow, though I do think it could be slightly difficult for someone with zero energy knowledge to follow.
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    SR
    Simon R
    2.0 2 years ago
    Simon completed this course, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
    Very dated and biased in places. Presenter (Dr Shelton) is pleasant, but stumbles often, and the slides are laden with typos. Several of the exam questions make little sense and aren't covered by the material. Wouldn't recommend.
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    SR
    Simon R
    2.0 2 years ago
    Simon completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
    Very dated and biased in places. Presenter (Dr Shelton) is pleasant, but stumbles often, and the slides are laden with typos. Several of the exam questions make little sense and aren't covered by the material. Wouldn't recommend.
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    DD
    Dfarning D
    2.0 3 years ago
    Dfarning is taking this course right now, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be very easy.
    Takes a rather biased perspective towards non fossil based energy sources.

    Very disappointing considering the high quality of courses Georgia Tech has been producing.
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    MH
    Mohammad H
    3.0 4 years ago
    by Mohammad completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
    The course gives some nice facts about Energy production, conversion and use. Would have been nicer if the prof had been less biased towards some of the newer technologies.
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