Why should you

care?
Impending Doom
The wicked problem that is a
sociopolitical economic problem that has
no clear solution of clean energy
generation plays a key role in climate
change and the reduction of greenhouse
Wind power gases into the atmosphere. It is not only
the smart move, but the necessary move
What ways do we generate clean for the US to advance in this filed and
energy? expand clean energy to be the primary
source of electricity. Continuing to use
There are eight main way the US
coal and other fossil fuels to generate
generates clean energy.
electricity will continue to increase
Biofuel average global temperatures at an
increasing rate. Climate change will get
Biomass worse, faster, if we do not make a

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By Ben Andrews

Hydroelectric Dam
What are civil
engineers doing for
clean energy?
Civil engineering at a professional
level
One of the major sub-sets of civil
engineering is environmental
engineering. The primary focus of
environmental engineering creating
sustainable systems in everyday life.
These systems can range from creating
insulation that allows less temperature
flow through homes, or to creating more
efficient solar panels for solar farms.
These engineers implement the ideas.
Civil engineering at a University level
University level civil engineers
professors, graduate students and in
some cases undergraduate students
are where most of the new innovative
clean energy advancements come from.
Theses engineers create the ideas.
Efficiency is really the key problem for
the engineers. You want your power Geothermal electric energy generation
source to be small as it can be, and get process
as much power as possible Hung
How do I get involved?
Luong, OpTerra Energy Group
What we can do as individuals is look to
improve the issue on small scale. Turn
the lights off when youre not home, get
solar panels on your house, do our best
What research that is being done?
to be mindful of where our energy
Right now were working on microalgae comes from and how much we use.
pods that you set out to float on the Support legislation that allows for
water. They are in self-contained advancement in the field of clean energy.
capsules, they take in waste water and of
CO2 as a food source for the algae, and
they produce oxygen and this oil that
can be used as a biofuel Peter Graham,
UC Davis