Imports and Exports
This country accounts for majority of US crude oil imports.
What is Canada?
This power is the most widely used renewable resource in the US.
What is wind power?
The US is starting to allocate more funds toward research in this specific energy source.
What is nuclear energy?
This is the typical price of one barrel of crude oil.
What is approx. $100?
This state has the most electric cars in the country.
What is California?
The US supplies its solar power technologies from this region of the world.
What is southeast Asia?
These three components make up what we know as "fossil fuels," which accounts for 82% of US energy usage.
What are petroleum(oil), natural gas, and coal?
The US captured this specific leader, in part, to acquire oil from their country.
Who is Nicólas Maduro?
This was the highest average regular gas price, in Maryland, that occurred in the past decade .
This state is currently considered #1 in the country for clean energy usage.
What is Washington?
This country contributes to 37% of imported uranium in the United States.
What is Kazakstan?
These specific scientists play a crucial role in natural gas extraction by locating reserves underground.
What are geologists?
This Act, passed on 1970, is meant to study and prevent excessive air pollution to improve health.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This is approx. the amount of funding that the government provides for nuclear energy production.
How much is $1.7 billion?
This state produces the most wind power compared to other states.
What is Texas?
This number represents the total amount of quadrillion British thermal units (or quads) that the US has exported.
In hydropower plants, water enters through this pipe that leads to a turbine that converts water's kinetic energy into usable energy.
What is the penstock?
This US president passed the Federal Power Act of 1920, which granted federal oversight of hydroelectric power development.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is approx how much, over a 25 year period, an American saves by using solar energy.
How much is $60,000?
These THREE states contribute the most toward hydroelectric power.
What are Washington, California, and Oregon?
Coal is a non-renewable resource that is used for different things. The US exports this specific type of coal which is quintessential to steel manufacturing.
What is metallurgic coal?
Uranium-235 is the most commonly used isotope within nuclear power plants. However, the abundance of this isotope is approx. 1%. This is the name of the process in which scientists increase the abundance of uranium-235.
What is enrichment?
John D. Rockefeller is an example of horizontal expansion in the oil industry since he held majority of the oil refineries, which is a crucial step in turning crude oil into usable oil. This Act imposed by the government restricted his monopoly over oil.
What is the Anti Sherman Trust Act of 1890?
Many traders today use this method to find the price difference between a crude barrel of oil and its finishing product to gain profit.
What is crack spread?
Hawaii is involved in research in this type of energy conversion that involves using temperature differences in the ocean (hot vs. cold).
What is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (or OTEC)?