Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- Organization
- TTK Department of Atomic Physics
- Code
- epenergf17em
- Title
- Energy and Environment
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 2
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The aims of the course is to overview the scientific knowledge in connection with energetics, reveal the social responsibility as consequence of decisions for energetics, to work up the ability to realize the impacts of the developments in energetics on the environment and its social effects, to take attention for the possibilities and difficulties succeeding from the energy supply of the societies with effects on the environment.
- Course content
- The aims of the course are: to show the importance of the appropriate energy supply for human societies, to overview the present energy supply of bigger communities, to persuade and show you that the production of remarkable amounts of energy is always connected with changes in the environment, to show the urgent need for change in the energy supply worldwide, to overview the renewable energy sources, to describe basic physics and the problems connected with nuclear energy, focus on the possible ways to supply future societies, to avoid direct comments about actual politics. Table of contents of the course 1. Introduction: Energy and energetics, some comments on the present situation; The energy household of the Earth. 2. Energy consumption and human societies. Energy consumption and the history of human civilization. 3. The resources and systems of the present energy supply. Energy from fossil sources, Resources, problems and limits; What do we use the energy for? 4. Physical basis of energy supply for the future. Possibilities for saving energy, Energy from renewable sources, The contemporary status and the future of nuclear energy. Possibilities, dangers, and problems. 5. Strategies for energy policy in the future.
- Assessment method
- examination ( by five-point scale)
- Recommended bibliography
- Meadows, Donella; Randers, Jorgen; Meadows, Dennis (March 2005). Limits To Growth: The 30-Year Update (Hardcover ed.). Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 1931498512. Raymond L. Murray, Keith E. Holbert: Nuclear Energy, An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Application of Nuclear Processes (Seventh Edition), Elsevier, 2015 Boeker, Egbert, van Grondelle, Rienk, „Environmental Physics”, John Wiley & Sons, second edition, ISBN 0 471 997803; third edition, (2011) David JC MacKay: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, Cambrige, England (2011)