Nature & Environment
Stories of Change
Video interviews capturing the thinking of key players in the climate change and energy debates at a critical time.
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Science, Maths & Technology
The restless Universe
...energy in joules and electric current in amperes. A detailed understanding of these units is not needed yet, and would make a rather dull start to this course. In the few places where units appear, please skip past them if the meaning is unclear. Many physical quantities span vast ranges of magnitude. Figures 1 and 2 use images to indicate the range of lengths and times...
Science, Maths & Technology
Waste Management
...energy recovery and landfill. This material forms part of T308 Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Control... Waste Management A short introduction to this album. Waste Minimisation Cutting down the amount of waste we create per household is our biggest challenge. Waste Re-use How your recycling gets separated and processed. When to re-use packaging, opt for...
Science, Maths & Technology
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
...energy as though little piece was a nuclear bomb. It destroys your mission. So all it takes is something a few millimetres in diameter to actually destroy your mission. So probably a tenth of speed of light is the highest that you can go without really, really being in great danger. Anyway that’s an aside so to speak. But let’s imagine you could go that fast. And say...
Nature & Environment
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
...energy? NS: I’d been working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really dating from about ten years ago when I started to work on the Stern Review which I began that work in 2005 and it was published in autumn...
Health, Sports & Psychology
What is Open Thanatology?
...energy to promote these fields of research and education. The Open Thanatology Hub showcases education we have created based on our research and flag-ship modules and curriculum here at the Open University, as well as our collaborations with other academics, professional organisations, and charities...[Open Thanatology logo] The word thanatology is derived from the Greek...
Nature & Environment
Reducing your ecological footprint
...energy efficient household in Oxford and pioneering work at the Eden Project and Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Cornwall. This material forms part of The Open University course U116, Environment: journeys through a changing world... Reducing your ecological footprint A short introduction to this album Eco-Renovations Reducing your carbon footprint at home. A couple from...
Nature & Environment
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
...energy, notably solar with storage, I think if we added enough money into the research budget, the R&D budget, to really push breakthroughs in this area, I think we could get some big mileage, some much more important development for the future and there’s a lot that could be done in that area, but it requires much more investment in R&D and probably less amount of roll...