Energy literacy,
from atoms to policy.
A small number of staffers, analysts, and advisors will shape the next decade of energy policy. This is how you master the tradeoffs cold: physics to policy, nearly 500 micro-lessons, ten minutes a day.
498 topics · 1,002 questions · 14 layers of depth · 10 minutes a day
Why it matters
Permitting, grid reliability, nuclear, transmission, LNG: each one turns on details that decide who pays and how much. Nothing else fits the job of learning them. Engineering MOOCs assume calculus and 40 spare hours; textbooks can’t check what you retained. This is built for the person with ten minutes between meetings who intends to come out fluent.
The method
Mastery learning, the model behind Math Academy: never advance past something you haven’t demonstrated you understand.
One idea per lesson
Each topic teaches exactly one concept in 3-5 minutes. No 40-hour course, no chapter you'll never finish.
Prerequisites first
498 concepts in dependency order. You learn what a watt is before anyone mentions capacity markets.
Prove it to advance
Every lesson ends with a quiz built around the mistakes people actually make. Pass it, unlock the next.
Review until it sticks
Spaced repetition brings concepts back right before you'd forget them. Mastery, not exposure.
What you’ll learn
Physics Foundations
Energy, entropy, voltage, and the laws that constrain every power system on Earth.
Generation Technologies
How solar, wind, nuclear, gas, and coal actually work. What the numbers say about each.
Grid & Markets
How electricity gets from plant to outlet, and why your bill looks the way it does.
Policy & Geopolitics
Carbon pricing, permitting, energy security, and the tradeoffs policymakers face.
Who it’s for
Staffers & officials
You advise on decisions that turn on technical detail. Become the one who briefs your principal with confidence and pulls colleagues onto the right call.
Fellows & analysts
Your training covered the politics. This covers the physics and economics underneath, so you can reason past the talking points and hold your own with any expert.
Students
Energy programs teach frameworks and case studies. Walk in already understanding how the machine works, and stand out.
Try a question
A news article states 'This battery can store 100 megawatts of clean energy.' What is wrong with this statement?
Megawatts measure power — the rate at which energy flows. Megawatt-hours measure energy — the total amount stored or consumed. Confusing these units is the most common error in energy journalism.
The answer is AGet the energy cheat sheet
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