I'm just now creating my general chemistry lessons on electrochemistry and was looking for a discussion topic for my students to learn more about the chemistry and real world connections with climate, energy, hydrogen fuel cells, and batteries for transportation. This podcast just became an assignment for my students to generate class discussion.
Seriously, where is the carbon accounting? What is the (marginal) carbon footprint of the hydrogen? Remember, gotta count the carbon footprint of the solar cells: that “solar” power is not free in an economy based on TAC optimization.
I love engineering economics, in part because the practitioners are pretty much all good at math and so are easy to teach. Our problem now is to expand the basic engineering-economics curriculum to cover, to some extent, the general equilibrium, in a world with a critical shortage of terrestrial carbon.
Thanks for this, David!
I'm just now creating my general chemistry lessons on electrochemistry and was looking for a discussion topic for my students to learn more about the chemistry and real world connections with climate, energy, hydrogen fuel cells, and batteries for transportation. This podcast just became an assignment for my students to generate class discussion.
That was fantastic! Thank you, David, Kyle & Val
Great conversation, super interesting--thank you David!
Gee whiz! I bet we get flying cars out of this!
Seriously, where is the carbon accounting? What is the (marginal) carbon footprint of the hydrogen? Remember, gotta count the carbon footprint of the solar cells: that “solar” power is not free in an economy based on TAC optimization.
I love engineering economics, in part because the practitioners are pretty much all good at math and so are easy to teach. Our problem now is to expand the basic engineering-economics curriculum to cover, to some extent, the general equilibrium, in a world with a critical shortage of terrestrial carbon.