I don't know if the study of energy is require so much as a review of everything we have already done and in many cases abandoned. Nuclear has had a 50 year hiatus, the first wind turbines were in the Cochella valley about 40 years ago, and long distance power transmission using HVDC tech is half a century old. Even heat pumps have been around for 30 years +. What is missing though is the limitations on the tech that resulted in a lot of the ideas being sidelined.
That sounds very good Professor Leach. Have you considered putting a camera in the classroom and getting U of A to put one of your courses online? We (the Alberta public) could really use a more rigorous treatment of these topics than we seem to be getting from other sources!
I don't know if the study of energy is require so much as a review of everything we have already done and in many cases abandoned. Nuclear has had a 50 year hiatus, the first wind turbines were in the Cochella valley about 40 years ago, and long distance power transmission using HVDC tech is half a century old. Even heat pumps have been around for 30 years +. What is missing though is the limitations on the tech that resulted in a lot of the ideas being sidelined.
That sounds very good Professor Leach. Have you considered putting a camera in the classroom and getting U of A to put one of your courses online? We (the Alberta public) could really use a more rigorous treatment of these topics than we seem to be getting from other sources!