“Progress” to an industrial economy has relied heavily on the availability of energy to spur the development of industry. Economic welfare and quality of life depend on energy choices: fossil fuels, bridging energy technologies, and the transformation to sustainable energy resources. Students were tasked to examine how future development will be affected by constraints on natural resources, contemporary views of environmental protection, new trends in green engineering, and the industrial ecology of energy and material flows.
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Students travel 'down under' to explore New Zealand’s energy technologies
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