Humans and Energy: Crash Course World History #207
Humans and Energy: Crash Course World History #207
Most of the energy we use comes from the Sun, even today. Stan Muller fills in for John Green to explore how humans have and continue to use energy.
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 01:25 How does Stan define energy and where does most of our energy come from?
- 02:00 What were the first two major energy technologies that humans discovered?
- 03:20 Does Stan think that coal is a nineteenth century-technology? Explain your answer.
- 05:50 Why don’t we use more nuclear energy?