EPA Fuel economy.
Cool site! They estimate my little fuel efficient (40 mgp
highway) Honda Civic dumps 5.2 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year.
(A Ford Expedition would be 13.6 tons!) Another site is an online guide rating
the "greenest" cars.
A site about a young woman who motorcycled through the
Cehernobyl site, poetic and informative: kid
of speed (I have since read that this is a hoax - she went on an
organized tour! Not sure what to say, the pictures are real and the prose
fascinating)
A paper on finite oil (Hubbert curve) by
Udall and Andrews (this is reading for homework #2)
Got that from the Hubbert Center ,
Interesting collection of newsletters about the supply (or lack of it) of
fossil fuels.
Here's a new paper by
Udall and andrews (like our HW #2 reading, but this one is
about natural gas rather than oil)
An article from a very recent Physics Today
with lots of the basic facts about finite energy resources.
National geographic had a good article this year (Jun '04) about oil.
Their web page
only has the introduction (Go to a library if you're interested - it's
good balanced reporting.)
A paper by Al Bartlett , a CU
professor who argues that the most significant failing of the human race is
its inability to comprehend the exponential function.
