{"id":31303,"key":"Green_Building/Energy_Fundamentals","title":"Green Building/Energy Fundamentals","latest":{"id":1261612,"timestamp":"2026-08-18T15:01:07Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Green Building navigation}}\n\n== Objectives ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand:\n\n# Energy basics\n# Working with dimensional units\n# Global, national, local and personal energy use\n# Renewable and non-renewable methods of energy production and their impacts\n\n== Goals ==\n\nThe following are some of the main goals for the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module.\n\n=== Concepts ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):\n\n* Energy types and transfer\n* Power loss and efficiency\n* Laws of Thermodynamics\n* Energy generation, storage and generation\n* Models\n* Power versus energy\n* EROI\n* Primary energy source versus energy carrier\n\n=== Vocabulary and units ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):\n\n* Conduction, convection, radiation, energy, power, length, area, volume, EROI, entropy, power loss, distribution, energy carrier, primary energy source\n* BTU, therm, joule, quads, cal, Cal, kw, kWh, kg, m, ft, s, hr, m<sup>3</sup>, ft<sup>3</sup>, prefixes (m, k, M, G)\n\n=== Calculations ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):\n\n* E=P*t\n* gas mileage and cost\n* efficiency\n\n=== How to ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):\n\n* use a kilowatt meter\n* electrical energy audit\n* Back Of the Envelope calculations\n\n== Field trips ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):\n\n* Schatz Energy Research Center\n* [[Campus Center for Appropriate Technology]]\n* [[Redwood Coast Energy Authority]]\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:Energy]]"}