News items:
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) on the California Energy Crisis
Southern California Edison on "Electricity Market Issues"
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) on the California energy crisis
The web page for the course text, Energy 3rd ed., by Hinrichs and Kleinbach.
The links page from the course text, Energy 3rd ed., by Hinrichs and Kleinbach. This is handy, as the links are arranged by chapter from the text.
U.S. Department of Energy, which has a wide variety of programs, from solar to wind to nuclear fission to nuclear fusion.
Energy Links page: a search engine for energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Global Warming Site
Worldwatch Institute. Public Interest organization monitoring environmental and population issues. They produce the State of the World reports.
Web Directory: Solar Energy, including lists of organizations that help you learn more, businesses where you can buy products, academic and government sites, and design information.
American Solar Energy Society, dedicated to advancing solar energy technologies.
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), national trade association for solar businesses and enterprises
Wind Energy Projects Throughout the United States, from the American Wind Energy Association
Real Goods, a CA-based firm offering "products for an ecologically sustainable future."
Off the Grid Living, extensive site for alternative energy, renewable energy, solar, photovaltaic, and/or homesteading.
Paul R. Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb" (1968)
The Toyota Prius: the world's first mass-produced hybrid electric/internal combustion car.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Edison Electric Institute, The trade organization for the Electric Utilities.
The American Nuclear Society: Nonprofit nuclear science and technology promotional organization.
The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
The Tokaimura (Japan's Sep. 30, 1999) Nuclear Accident: Its Causes, Health & Environmental Effects
Chernobyl , from Yahoo News
The American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Why Nuclear Power: Comparisons of various energy sources
Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy (EFN). Based in France.
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism, with lots of links
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, home of the famous Doomsday Clock
The Fusion Energy Program at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
The National Ignition Facility
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Creating Innovations to make Fusion Power a Practical Reality
Union of Concerned Scientists: Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions
What's New electronic newsletter by Bob Park, from the American Physical Society. This covers the American political scene, with regard to science and technology. It's often funny, irreverent, and "in your face," but always incisive.
The American Physical Society presents "A Century of Physics."
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Dr.
Ringwald's Big Page of Links
Go to Dr.
Ringwald's home page
Web page by Dr. Ringwald (
ringwald@csufresno.edu )
Department of Physics,
California State University, Fresno