1. Introduction -- Energy and society -- Types of energy -- Renewable energy -- Economics -- climate change -- Order of magnitude estimates -- Growth (exponential) -- Solution -- 2. Energy -- Definition of energy and power -- Heat -- Thermodynamics -- Energy dilemma in light of the Laws of Thermodynamics -- Conservation -- Efficiency -- Use of fossil fuels -- Petroleum -- Natural gas -- Coal -- Nuclear -- Finite resource -- 3. Sun -- Solar power -- Electromagnetic spectrum -- Visible -- Blackbody radiation -- Energy balance of the Earth -- Earth-sun motion -- Sun position -- Insolation -- Solar resource -- Greehouse effect -- 4. Heat transfer and storage -- Convection -- Radiation -- Thermal mass -- Seasonal heating or cooling -- Thermal comfort -- 5. Solar heating and cooling -- Building -- Air quality -- Air and vapor barriers -- Wind and vegetation -- Passive -- Windows and glazing -- Other glazings -- Solar heating -- Shading -- Passive heating and cooling -- Direct gain -- Indirect gain -- Cooling -- Active heating -- Flat-plate collectors -- Domestic hot water -- Swimming pools -- Active cooling -- Daylighting -- Hybrid and other -- Drying agricultural products, lumber -- Solar cookers -- Water purification -- 6. Photovoltaics -- Physics basics -- Energy bands -- Photovoltaic basics -- Performance -- Design considerations -- Installed capacity and production -- Distributed systems -- Community solar -- Applications -- Grid connected -- Village and hybrid power -- Stand-alone -- 7. Concentrating solar power -- Power tower -- Line or linear -- Dish/engine -- Point focus -- Solar pond -- 8. Solar systems -- Passive systems -- Location, orientation, and shape -- Indoor space -- Windows --Direct gain -- Thermal mass -- Clerestories and skylights -- Sunroom (solar room) and attached greenhouse -- Passive cooling -- Hybrid systems -- Building -- Passive heating and cooling -- Solar hot air system -- Solar hot water -- Daylighting -- Electrical generation -- Performance -- Active systems -- Underground homes -- Computer software -- Straw bale house -- Adobe and rammed earth -- Tire houses, earthships -- Double-envelope house -- Green building --

9. Wind energy -- Wind resource -- Wind shear -- Wind maps -- Wind turbines -- Wind industry -- Distributed-community wind -- Village power -- Wind diesel -- 10. Bioenergy -- Climate change -- Climate change-anthropocene -- Intergovernmental panel on climate change -- Biomass production -- Conversion -- Heat and power -- Municipal solid waste -- Landfill gas -- Biogas -- Biofuels -- Ethanol -- Biodiesel -- Biogas digesters -- Microalgae -- 11. Geothermal energy -- Types of geothermal resources -- Direct use -- Springs, space heating, and others -- District heating -- Geothermal heat pumps -- Electricity -- Dry steam -- Flash -- Binary plants -- Combined heat and power -- 12. Water -- World resource -- Hydroelectric -- Turbines -- Water flow -- Tides -- Ocean -- Currents -- Waves -- Ocean thermal energy conversion -- Salinity gradient -- 13. Storage -- Pumped hydro -- Compressed air -- Flywheels -- Batteries -- Led acid -- Lithium ion -- sodium sulfur -- flow batteries -- Other storage systems -- Magnetic systems -- Capacitors -- Phase change materials -- Hydrogen -- 14. Institutional issues -- The United States -- Avoided cost -- Utility concerns -- regulations -- Environmental issues -- Politics -- Incentives -- The United States : Federal support -- State support -- Green power -- Net metering -- Other countries : Wind -- Photovoltaic energy, solar hot water -- Externalities (social costs/benefits) -- Transmission -- 15. Economics -- Factors affecting economics -- Economic analyses -- Simple payback -- Cost of energy -- Life-cycle costs -- Present worth and levelized costs -- Externalities -- Project development -- Landowner considerations -- Cost (value) of energy and different sources -- Passive solar -- Active solar heat -- Photovoltaics -- Concentrating solar power -- Wind -- Bioenergy -- Geothermal systems -- Water -- Village power -- Wind diesel -- 16. Observations -- Solid-state electronics -- Internet -- Geographic Information Systems -- Satellites -- Interactive maps -- Interactive database -- Tools -- Predictions -- Science.