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EARTH 10: Gaia - Energy and the Environment

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  • Welcome to EARTH 10
    • Unit 1: Energy and Environment
      • Module 1: Why Energy Matters
      • Module 2: What is Energy?
        • Goals and Objectives
        • Three Examples
        • Powering the Big Units
        • Energy and the US Economy
        • Enrichments
          • Einstein's Special Relativity Theory
      • Module 3: Oil, Coal & Natural Gas | Drilling, Fracking & Reserves
      • Module 4: Global Warming - Physics
      • Module 5: Global Warming - History

Authors: Richard B. Alley, Professor, Seth Blumsack, Professor, & David Bice, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University. 

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