Session 4 - Part I presents multiple student projects Energy Country Analysis.
Part II presents the Energy Big Picture: introducing key learnings on each source of energy separately as well as an integrated system: the top producing & consuming countries, industrial processes, CO2 emissions & other associated risks, and critically analyze the arguments of the sector companies to promote that source.
The Focus Module Urban Planning & CO2 illustrates how some choices made by society dramatically determines CO2 emissions.
1. No energy is clean:
2. Remain critical on the words used:
3. Always analyze the bigger picture and avoid the "Myopia Syndrome"
4. Complexity: integrate as many constraints as possible to develop realistic analyses.
National Energy Resources:
Domestic Demand & Uses:
Environmental Objectives:
Geo-strategic Situation:
The pedagogical advantage of this method is that a 3-hr top-down course developing all the content would be both boring and inefficient.
Instead, students are asked to work first at home on the energy situation of one country. Recording their presentation at home enables to gather and share analyses on many countries.
Warning: the documents have been prepared by students with significant time constraints. They might contain inexactitudes & mistakes.
During the course, the teachers provide corrections and complementary information when necessary. We have chosen to publish these documents to provide a better overview of the pedagogical approach of the course.