Definitions
The capacity to do work.
What is energy?
What generator includes both shunt and series field windings
What is Compound Wound
Energy from self replenishing sources.
What is renewable energy?
a small local electrical network that can operate separate from the main grid
microgrid
The 16th President of the US
What is Abraham Lincoln
A group of connected electrochemical cells.
What is a battery?
What depends on a generators strength of magnetic field and rotational speed of the rotor
What is Voltage
A mechanical compression refrigeration system containing devices and controls to reverse the flow of refrigerant to over heat from one place to another.
What is a heat pump?
where most electrical power is generated
First Super Bowl played.
What is 1967
The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance properties in an electrical circuit.
What is ohms law?
What are single phase generators are used for
What is small power depends
Renewable energy that is derived from heat contained within the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
the organization that produces or distributes electricity
What is the three main Refrigerant types.
CFC's, HCFC's, HFC's
The opposition that a material offers the flow of electrical current.
What is resistance?
How many degrees apart are the three separate coils in three phase generators
What is 120 Degrees
The biggest problem with small residential wind turbines
The efficiency
the condition of incoming power. includes voltage frequency and reliability.
power quality
The year Jeopardy first aired.
What is 1964
A device that converts AC voltage to DC voltage by allowing the voltage and current to move in one direction.
What is a rectifier?
What is the process where a coil of wire induces voltage in another coil of wire
What is electromagnetic induction
The use of falling or running water to mechanically rotate turbines and convert the energy of water into electricity.
What is hydroelectric energy?
an electrical grid in which power is delivered and monitored from the source to the end user.
a smart grid
The Romans invented the Under-floor Heated Bath house in what year?
What is 2nd Century BC