The Accelerating Energy Transition

Provided by: Stanford Understand Energy |Published on: June 25, 2024

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Synopsis

In this resource, students will watch a lecture about energy sources, energy usage, and its impact on the environment over the past few decades, as well as efforts to transition to clean energy.
This resource also contains links to additional resources, a fast fact sheet, and extension resources.

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Subjects: Physics, Engineering

Authors: Stanford Understand Energy

Region: United States

Languages: English

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Positives

This resource contains various links to different resources that can help students better understand future and ongoing clean energy revolutions.
The visual data illustrates the efforts put in to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the harmful environmental impacts of our current energy usage.

Prerequisites

Students may need prior knowledge in visual data analysis, like pie charts and bar graphs.
Teachers may need to create an account if they want to request lecture slides.
There are videos and readings that students may need to view before watching the lecture.

Differentiation

Since this resource mainly focuses on the United States, students can research energy consumption, its usage, and carbon intensity from select countries in different continents and identify if there are efforts for clean energy transition.
The teacher can invite guest speakers, like experts in the energy industry, scientists developing clean energy technologies, or climate activists, to help students better understand their role in this effort.
Students can discuss the effects of fossil fuels' usage on human health, wildlife ecosystems, and the environment. They can also brainstorm possible solutions and mitigations.
Students can create a timeline of major energy transitions to the present day and indicate their predictions on when the world can achieve net zero emissions according to current trends.

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Stanford Understand Energy

Stanford University’s Understand Energy Learning Hub provides free access to Stanford course content on energy resources from fossil fuels like oil and coal to renewable resources like the wind, the sun, and efficiency; energy currencies like electricity and hydrogen; and energy services such as transportation and buildings. Explore the Hub and build your energy literacy to address climate change and sustainability issues, engage on equity and human development challenges, participate in energy industry markets and technology innovations, and make informed energy decisions.

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