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Wednesday December 12th @ 4:30-5:45
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Syllabus
Energy Czar
Energy Czar Country Overview Assignment
Sample of Energy Czar Country Overview for Sri Lanka
Energy Czar Energy Overview Assignment
Sample of Energy Czar Energy Overview for Sri Lanka
(due on monday, 9/17)
Energy Czar Renewable Resource Assignment
Sample of Energy Czar Renewable Resource Assignment for Sri Lanka
(due wednesday, 10/24)
Energy Czar 25 Year Plan Assignment
Excel workbook for final energy czar
(due Thursday, 12/20)
Homework
Homework Assignment 1, which is due on 9/19 in class - a hard copy.
Homework Assignment 2, which is due on 10/3 in class.
Homework Assignment 3, which is due on 10/19 in class.
Homework Assignment 4, which is due on 10/27 (or paired with Homework Assignment 5 on 11/2).
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Homework Assignment 5, which is due on 11/2.
Homework Assignment 6, due on 11/16
Biorenewable Resources by R.C. Brown (Ch. 3 text)
Homework Assignment 7, due 12/7
Homework Assignment 8, due 12/14
Explorations
Lecture Slides
Grades
Grades posted on the Grades table. Please enter your country name and the name of your country's capital city. As soon as the table is complete we will enter homework scores here, sorted by city name.
Comments (3)
Owen Smith said
at 10:15 pm on Dec 14, 2012
The energy czar 25 year plan worksheet says meat yield is 1 GJ/hectare/year, using this value gives bad results for required land compared to available land and costs soar into the trillions for a bit of land. I went looking online for verification of this value and I found a few sites giving meat yield as 500,000-1,000,000 Calories/acre/year. 0.5-1 mil Cal/acre/year = 5.25-10.5 GJ/ha/yr. Try changing the meat yield to somewhere in that value and see what you get. Those sites I found were hippie-type vegan sites who don't give their references, if anyone can find verifiable references (such as from USDA) that supports any of the meat energy yield values, post it on the comments.
DanielGodrick said
at 9:22 am on Dec 17, 2012
I'm pretty sure that the Arable land (red box at the top of agriculture tab) is wrong in the example.
The arable land for Brazil was 597,000 km^2 = 6.97% of 8.5Mkm^2.
In the box it said 5,970km^2 - so it is dividing by 100 for some reason.
bocozebe21 said
at 8:32 pm on Dec 19, 2012
^Dan, I looked...it's dividing by 100 because the input for that percent is in % form...i.e. "6.97" instead of "0.0697." I checked mine and the math works right...perhaps you should go back through and make sure you have put the percent arable on "initial data entry" in the form of a percent rather than a decimal.
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