Feel the Power!
The Idaho National Laboratory is the site of the first power plant to produce electricity by this method in 1951
Nuclear Power
Some like to work atop utility poles fixing these objects that reduce voltage so your home can use electricity
Transformers
10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for less than $14K
Solar
Until WWII, this candy bar had 3 pieces in one package, flavored chocolate, vanilla & strawberry; now it's all chocolate
Three Musketeers
Scientific unit of measure for magnetic flux density
tesla
Iceland is a leader in the generation of this type of renewable energy, from words meaning "earth" & "heat"
Geothermal
Hippies & survivalists may be "off" this, meaning living so as to not require electricity
the Grid
You have Albert Butz to thank for this little device that controls the temperature in your house
Thermostat
This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel
Nantucket
A standard unit of measure of electric power, one is equal to one joule per second
Watt
California's Ivanpah plant focuses solar rays to heat tanks of water, spinning turbines with this 19th century type of power
Steam
To allay fears of alternating current, he publicly lit lamps by allowing electricity to flow through his body
Nikola Tesla
An intense, sometimes irrational fear of the sun.
Heliophobia
A 17th century matchlock is part of the British museum's collection of these firearms
a musket
The law named for this 18th century French physicist is the electrical analogue to the law of gravity
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
The biggest hydroelectric power producer in the U.S. is Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam on this river.
the Columbia
As reaffirmed by a 2011 referendum, Italy is the only G7 country that produces no electricity through this method
Nuclear
A new & growing condition is nomophobia, the fear of losing access to this--is there a charger nearby?
A mobile phone
This 5-letter so-called cat excretes a musk that is used in the making of perfumes
the civet
Current multiplied by resistance
Voltage
7-letter word for a renewable energy source made from algae, plants or animal waste
Biofuel
This non-profit group is responsible for for maintaining 90% of the integritity -- or lack thereof -- of the Texas Interconnection
ERCOT
Developers of this hyphenated type of battery that powers smartphones & electric cars won the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize
Lithium-Ion
When added to Nixon's enemies list, several senators took up spots, including Walter Mondale, William Proxmire & this man from Maine
Edmund Muskie
This German physicist's law governs the relationship between voltage & resistance
Georg Ohm