Harvard Energy Journal Club

Thursday, June 29

Mystic Generating Station,  Everett, MA
2.16 Gigawatt Total Capacity
First Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant built in US with 1.6 Gigawatt capacity.

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Thursday, July 20

Merrimack Station Power Plant,  Bow, NH
500 Megawatt Pulverized Coal Power Plant

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Friday, September 8

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant,  Seabrook, NH
1.215 Gigawatt Capacity

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Tuesday,
May 16

ARTICLE

Electricity Distribution and Storage
Distributed generation: definition, benefits and issues
G. Pepermans, J. Driesen, et al.
Energy Policy,   2005

Tuesday,
May 9

ARTICLE

Review of the Maximum Efficiency of Transmission Lines
T.H. Papazoglou
IEEE Transactions on Education,   1992

Friday,
May 5

LECTURE

Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage for a Sustainable Energy Future
Y. Shao-Horn,   MIT

Dependence on PEM fuel cell performance on catalyst loading
H.A. Gasteiger, J.E. Panels and S.G. Yan Journal of Power Sources,   2004

Tuesday,
May 2

TEXTBOOK CHAPTER

Electricity Distribution and Storage
Chapter 14, Section 4: AC Distribution Systems
author(s)
Text title,   year

Tuesday, April 25

ARTICLES

How Power Grids Work
M. Brain
HowStuffWorks.com,   2006

What's wrong with the electric grid
E.J. Lerner
The Industrial Physicist,   2003

Tuesday, April 19

LECTURE

CO₂ Capture and Storage - How can oilfield technology help?
T. S. Ramakrishnan,   Scientific Advisor for Schlumberger-Doll Research

Tuesday, April 18

ARTICLES

Fuel Cell Industry Analysis
Fuel Cell Today 2005 Worldwide Survey
K.A. Adamson, G. Crawley and D. Jollie
Fuel Cell Today,   2006

Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells
G. Crawley
Fuel Cell Today,   2006

Tuesday, April 11

ARTICLE

Fuel Cell Principles
Fuel cells: principles, types, fuels, and application
L. Carrette, K.A. Friedrich and U. Stimming
ChemPhysChem,   2000

Tuesday, April 4

ARTICLE

Fuel Cell Construction
Fuel cell material and components
S.M. Haile
Acta Materialia,   2003

Tuesday, March 21

LECTURE

More Trouble for Welfare-optimizing Climate-Economy Models
Hans-Martin Füssel,   Stanford University

Logical and empirical flaws in applications of simple climate-economy models
H.M Füssel

Tuesday, March 14

ARTICLE

Coal and Biomass Gasification
The effects of pressure on coal reactions during pulverised coal combustion and gasification
T.F. Wall, G. Liu, et al.
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science,   2002

Tuesday, March 9

WORKING PAPER

National gasification strategy: gasification of coal & biomass as a domestic gas supply option
W.G. Rosenberg, M.R. Walker and D.C. Alpern
Energy Technology Innovation Project,   2005

Tuesday, February 28

ARTICLES

Coal Conversion and Combustion Science
Coal Conversion
M.A. Nowak, A.D. Paul, R.D. Srivastava and A. Radziwon
Encylopedia of Energy Vol. I,   2004

Combustion technology developments in power generation in response to environmental challenges
J.M. Beer
Progress in Energy and Combustion Science,   2000

Tuesday, February 21

LECTURE

A Pilot-Scale Prototype CO₂ Scrubber for the Atmosphere
David W. Keith,   University of Calgary

Tuesday, February 14

ARTICLE

Climate Strategy for Atmospheric CO₂ Capture
Climate strategy with CO₂ capture from air
D.W. Keith, M. Ha-Duong and J.K. Stolaroff
Climatic Change,   2005

Tuesday, February 7

ARTICLE

Atmospheric CO₂ Capture
Capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere
F.S. Zeman, K.S. Lackner
World Resource Review,   2004

Thursday, December 15

TEXTBOOK CHAPTER

Nuclear Power Plants
p. 416-431 in Chapter 10: Nuclear Power Plants
Kenneth Weston
Energy Conversion  eTextbook,   1992

Thursday, December 8

TEXTBOOK CHAPTER

p. 395-416 in Chapter 10: Nuclear Power Plants
Kenneth Weston
Energy Conversion  eTextbook,   1992

Thursday, December 1

ARTICLE

Nuclear Safety
Advanced reactors, passive safety, and acceptance of nuclear energy
C.W. Forsberg and A.M. Weinberg
Annual Reviews of Energy,   1990

Thursday, November 17

ARTICLE

Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy from the earth: its potential impact as an environmentally sustainable resource
J.E. Mock, J.W. Tester and P.M. Wright
Annual Reviews of Energy and the Environment,   1997

Thursday, November 10

ARTICLE

Predicting Future Oil Production Rates and the Ultimately Recoverable Quantity of Oil
Forecasting ultimate oil recovery and its rate of production: incorporating economic forces into the models of M. King Hubbert
C.J. Cleveland, R.K. Kaufmann
Energy Journal,   1991

Thursday, November 3

LECTURE

CO₂ Trading Markets and Market Opportunities
Mike Moore,   Managing Partner of CO₂ Global

Thursday, October 27

ARTICLES

Tidal Power Potential
A "sleeper" awakes: tidal current power
R.H. Charlier
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,   2003

Norway goes with the flow to light up its nights
R. Stone
Science,   2003

Thursday, October 20

ARTICLES

Drivers of Energy-Related CO₂ Emissions Growth
Determinants of emissions growth in OECD countries
C. Hamilton and T. Turton
Energy Policy,   2002

Energy and the protection of the atmosphere
N. Nakicenovic and A. Grubler
UN DPCSD,   1996

Thursday, October 13

DISCUSSION & VISITING SPEAKER

Energy Future Discussion: Hoffert and Socolow
Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: energy for a Greenhouse Planet
M.I. Hoffert, K. Caldeira, et al.
Science,   2002

Stabilization Wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies
S. Pacala and R. Socolow
Science,   2004

Thursday, October 6

ARTICLES

Photovoltaic Cells - Technology and Costs
Technology Paper - Title
Technology Paper - Author(s)
Journal Title,   year

Costs Paper - Title
Costs Paper - Authors(s)
Journal title,   year

Thursday, September 29

ARTICLE

Wind Power Integration
Large-scale integration of wind power into different energy systems
H. Lund
Energy,   2005

Thursday, September 22

ARTICLE

Lifecycle Analysis of Coupled Wind/Hydrogen Technology
Life cycle analysis of wind-fuel cell integrated system
F.I. Khan, K. Hawboldt and M.T. Iqbal
Renewable Energy,   2005

Thursday, September 15

ARTICLE

Sleipner CO₂ Storage Project
Demonstrating storage of CO₂ in geological reservoirs:
The Sleipner and SACS projects
T.A. Torp and J. Gale
Energy,   2004

Thursday, September 8

ARTICLE

Power Plant Efficiency with Cogeneration and CO₂ Capture & Storage
Energy and environmental optimization in thermoelectrical generating processes -
application of a carbon dioxide capture system
I. Garcia and J.V.M Zorraquino
Energy,   2002

Thursday, September 1

ARTICLE

Indirect Coal Liquefaction
Synthetic fuel production by indirect coal liquefaction
E.D. Larson and R. Tinjin
Energy for Sustainable Development,   December 2003

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