BRR 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pellet Fuel, Green Waste, Industrial Revolution

• School: Oregon State University
• Department: Bioresource Research
• Course: BRR 325
• Professor: Katharine Field

Document Summary

Energy is used on transportation and manufacturing: energy can be extracted from primary energy sources: these forms of energy that are present in nature without any human transformation. Solar energy: ant-burning (7th century bc, lighting torches (3rd century bc, archimedes defends syracuse (212 bc, bathhouse with south-facing window (1-4 century ad, anasazi dwellings (1200s, solar cooking device (1767) with parabolic solar concentrators, photovoltaic effect discovered (1839). French physicist edmund becquerel discovered the pv effect. Advancements in semiconductor technologies which enabled development of tech that converts solar energy to electricity: solar energy is used in agriculture and residential heating, development of optics. Potential of solar energy for heat and power generation. Energy for transportation: wind, geothermal, and solar energy are not widely used in transportation, there are challenges to energy storage, transportation fuels have a high energy density due to space and cost constraints.