Green Building Pre-Apprenticeship Program/Energy Fundamentals
Modules: Introduction - Green Building - Energy - Retrofits and Energy Efficiency - Water Efficiency - Solar Hot Water - Photovoltaic
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[edit] Objectives
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will understand:
- Energy basics
- Working with dimensional units
- Global, national, local and personal energy use
- Renewable and non-renewable methods of energy production and their impacts
[edit] Goals
The following are some of the main goals for the Energy Fundamentals module.
[edit] Concepts
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):
- Energy types and transfer
- Power loss and efficiency
- Laws of Thermodynamics
- Energy generation, storage and generation
- Models
- Power versus energy
- EROI
- Primary energy source versus energy carrier
[edit] Vocabulary and units
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):
- Conduction, convection, radiation, energy, power, length, area, volume, EROI, entropy, power loss, distribution, energy carrier, primary energy source
- BTU, therm, joule, quads, cal, Cal, kw, kWh, kg, m, ft, s, hr, m3, ft3, prefixes (m, k, M, G)
[edit] Calculations
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):
- E=P*t
- gas mileage and cost
- efficiency
[edit] How to
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):
- use a kilowatt meter
- electrical energy audit
- Back Of the Envelope calculations
[edit] Field trips
By the end of the Energy Fundamentals module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):
- Schatz Energy Research Center
- Campus Center for Appropriate Technology
- Redwood Coast Energy Authority
