Understanding Biological Energy
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Course author
- James McEvoy
Description
Get an introduction to energy and explore how humans and other living things obtain and use their biological energy sources.
Discover applications of biological energy, from human energy to photosynthesis
On this course, you’ll learn what energy actually is and how living things acquire and convert it.
You’ll find out how biological energy is stored and released in fossil fuels and what advances in agriculture mean for feeding the world’s growing population.
As you explore biological energy in industry, you’ll consider the ways science can help us to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels as well as ways we might use and learn from plants to provide energy in the future.
You’ll also discover the concept of ‘energy overload’ and how it is threatening our bodies’ energy balance today.
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