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  • Integrate Material and Energy Flows

    The design of products, processes, and systems must include integration and interconnectivity with available energy materials and flows. Learn how to integration mass and energy into your project design.

    • Duration 5m
    • Beginner

  • Maximize Efficiency

    This overview of how to Maximize Efficiency will help you better understand how and where to place your energy generators weather you are designing for commercial or in-home use.

    • Duration 3m
    • Beginner

  • Meet Need, Minimize Excess

    Green engineering approaches the design of products and processes by applying financially and technologically feasible principles. Learn how to apply these principles to your design.

    • Duration 3m
    • Beginner

  • Renewable Rather Than Depleting

    Material inputs should be renewable rather than depleting. Before introducing finite resources, chemicals, or plastics into your development process consider the value of sustainable engineering practices to offset the negative side effects.

    • Duration 3m
    • Rating 4.3
    • Beginner

  • Wind Farm Monitoring

    Check out the new devices available for monitoring large- and small-scale windfarms.

    • Duration 3m
    • Beginner

  • Hydropower Explained

    People have a long history of using the force of water flowing in streams and rivers to produce mechanical energy. Hydropower was one of the first sources of energy used for electricity generation and is the largest single renewable energy...

    • Duration 10m
    • Beginner

  • Wind Energy Basics

    Basic information on wind energy and wind power technology, resources, and issues of concern.

    • Duration 5m
    • Beginner

  • Solar Power Has Benefits as a Source of Alternative Energy

    Solar energy is the technology used to harness the sun's energy and make it useable. As of 2011, the technology produced less than one tenth of one percent of global energy demand. Many are familiar with so-called photovoltaic cells, or...

    • Duration 5m
    • Beginner

  • Renewable power will need better energy storage

    The technology needed for a future with more sustainable energy is expensive and complex. Learn more about this story at www.newsy.com/71600/ Find more videos like this at www.newsy.com Follow Newsy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/newsyvideos Follow...

    • Duration 5m
    • Beginner

  • How Energy Storage Works

    The electricity grid is a complex system in which power supply and demand must be equal at any given moment. Constant adjustments to the supply are needed for predictable changes in demand, such as the daily patterns of human activity,...

    • Duration 5m
    • Rating 5.0
    • Beginner