Teaching

Everything I teach that is publicly available: the interactive tools, the course material and the student project pages.

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Interactive tools

Two applications, to be opened straight in a browser. They run entirely on your machine: nothing is sent anywhere, and they keep working offline once the page has loaded. Both are open source, model and sources included.

You are welcome to use them in your own teaching — translated, cut up or modified. Content is under CC BY 4.0 and code under the MIT licence; just say where it came from.

The Net Zero Game

A teaching model of France in 2050. You drive transport, building heating and industry against emission targets and against the physical constraints that make electrification a trade-off rather than a free win — the winter electricity peak, and the biogas, biofuel and biomass the country can actually supply.

Every formula is declared in a YAML file rather than buried in a spreadsheet cell, and every assumption carries its value, its bounds and its sources. Code and model: git.persee.minesparis.psl.eu/energy-alternatives/The-net-zero-game

Vehicle efficiency, from the well to the wheel

An interactive comparison of six powertrains — battery electric, hydrogen by electrolysis, hydrogen by steam reforming, petrol, diesel and hybrid. Every link in the chain is a slider carrying its own source, and the Sankey diagram, the overall efficiency and the running cost are recomputed live.

The point is not to rank powertrains. It is to show that three method choices — the perimeter, the primary-energy accounting convention, and the type-approval cycle — decide the headline number more than the engineering does. Default values reproduce the JEC Well-to-Wheels v5 (JRC, EUCAR and Concawe), the European Union’s reference study. Code, sources and reproducible figures: git.persee.minesparis.psl.eu/energy-alternatives/car_efficiency

I-BE³ — International Bachelor of Environmentally Engaged Engineering

Introduction to Energy — a three-day course for the I-BE³ bachelor’s degree of MINES Paris — PSL, on the Sophia Antipolis campus. What energy is and how it is measured, where it comes from and where it goes, and what a low-carbon transition actually requires.

The two interactive tools above were built for this course. The rest of the material is not published here yet.

MINES Paris — UE 14 “Terre et Société”

First-year mini-projects, in French.

Supervision

Any question, write to me: robin.girard@minesparis.psl.eu.