Electrifying Our World. Burning fossil fuel exacerbates global warming, but its ample energy enables modern civilization. Production and CO2 emissions continue to rise. We burn fossil fuels for 84% of world energy, even electric energy. We can instead generate electricity with no CO2 emissions, and then expand clean electricity use to replace combustion energy. With ample, cheap, 24×7 electric energy from fission we can end energy poverty and check the climate crisis.

Electrify Everything. Electricity can power cars, trucks, and trains. It can become the energy feedstock for a global clean economy. Make hydrogen from water and synthesize fuels for big trucks and planes. Electrify building heating. Enable new emission-free industries such as electrolytic steel production. Use electricity to manufacture clean ammonia for agriculture and marine engine fuels.

Become an energy strategy expert. This web site arises from an Osher course given at Dartmouth College in 2020 and 2021. Scroll through these pages at your own pace; click on blue links for more information.

1. Energy basics
2. Energy CO2, climate, nurturing people
3. Renewables, wind/solar lulls, batteries, cost importance
4. Energy use sectors, emissions, strategies, grand strategy
5. Mass-produced fission power plants
6. Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost
7. Hydrogen, steam electrolysis, cost
8. Electric vehicles, battery limits, charging
9. Heavy trucks, hydrogen fuel, biofuels, synfuels, planes, trains 
10. Ammonia, fuel, food, shipping, synthesis
11. Buildings, heating, cooling, industry, steel, factories, policy

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Robert Hargraves has given many courses at Dartmouth’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, including courses on energy policy, Internet money, Wikipedia, and conflict between science and politics. He is a Brown physics PhD with an honors AB in mathematics from Dartmouth. where he returned as assistant professor and taught mathematics and the first computer science courses. He founded a software company, became a VP at Met Life, an IT consultant at AD Little, then VP of medical device firm Boston Scientific.  Hargraves is the author of THORIUM: energy cheaper than coal and cofounder of fission energy company ThorCon.