TED Talks
Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage -- so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to...
TED Talks
TED: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel | Kirk Sorensen
Kirk Sorensen shows us the liquid fuel thorium reactor -- a way to produce energy that is safer, cleaner and more efficient than current nuclear power.
TED Talks
Larry Burns: The future of cars
General Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen -- and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they're idle.
SciShow
Why Does the US Have So Many Power Outages?
The United States has a lot more power outages than other countries do, and fixing this problem will be a massive undertaking. Chapters View all Across the United States, the average customer loses power about once or twice a year, for a...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Oceanic Economics
At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water, the world’s...
Curated Video
Ethanol Production: Processes, Uses and Renewability
The video explores the production of ethanol and its various uses. It starts by discussing the importance of ethanol as a clean-burning fuel and a widely used industrial solvent. The video then explores different ways of producing...
MinuteEarth
The Problem With Concrete
Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releases CO2, and because we burn fossil fuels to make it happen. ___________________________________________ To learn...
Curated OER
Solar Thermal Power Station
A forty story tower collects the sun's rays from a series of 600 mirrors and converts them into usable energy for the city of Seville, Spain. The video quality is poor, but the technology is amazing, making this worthwhile to show when...
American Chemical Society
What Is Energy?
Kids sure do seem to have a lot of energy, but what exactly is energy? A video explains many different types of energy, starting with potential and kinetic. It highlights the most common forms of potential energy, including...
Curated OER
Biofuel from Algae
The potential of using algae to produce biofuel is briefly commemorated in this video. Perhaps you could assign collaborative groups different forms of renewable energy and have them research and create a media presentation to share with...
Crash Course
The Future of Clean Energy: Crash Course Engineering #31
Take a look into the future of energy with a video that focuses on future alternative sources of clean energy. Viewers looks at various forms of biomass, hydrogen fuel cells, and nuclear fission and fusion.
Fuse School
Coal, Oil and Gas Hydrocarbons
Where do the hydrocarbons we use for energy come from? Science scholars learn the origins of our fossil fuels in a short video. The animated video includes information on how fossil fuels formed, their uses, and how a number of useful...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Green Revolution
Videos on different forms of alternative energy and various green initiatives, e.g., green roofs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Psu Center for Sustainability: Energy Systems
This short video illustrates the alternative forms of energy used by the Center for Sustainability at Penn State University to generate electric power: solar, wind, and biodiesel. [1:58]