Solar and Wind Energies
Capturing. radiation from the sun and converting it into electricity.
What is solar power?
Having a balance between carbon released by human activities and carbon removed from the atmosphere to achieve net-zero emissions.
When huge amounts of water are trapped at the top of a hill and turbines spin to control the flow of water downstream to create electricity.
What is hydroelectric power?
This energy is created through the breakdown of chemical elements to release and generate heat.
What is nuclear power?
These can be created without the need for carbon emissions or guzzling tankfuls of gas.
What are cars?
The extra cost of choosing a low-carbon alternative instead of a technology that releases more greenhouses gases.
What is the green premium?
A facility where water can travel through turbines and generate electricity.
What is a hydroelectric dam?
The chemical that undergoes nuclear fission to generate electricity.
What is uranium?
This is the amount of the amount of energy provided by electrical companies and the energy needed by citizens.
What is supply and demand?
A big field of mirrors that focuses sunlight into a single receiver that can reach hundreds of degrees Celsius and create steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.
Find ways to make electricity without emitting so much carbon dioxide.
This type of energy is able to be replaced or replenished through natural processes.
What is renewable energy?
The process of breaking down chemicals into other elements while releasing heat.
What is nuclear fission?
This requires research and development as well as new infrastructure to create.
What is installing new facilities?
These energy types account for 7% of the global electricity supply.
The minimum amount of energy needed to power a neighborhood in the middle of the night.
What is a base load of energy?
This facility is the biggest hydroelectric facility in the world, taking 20 years and 28 million dollars to build.
What is Three Gorges Dam in China?
What is 10%?
Decarbonizing the electricity supply will help this industry by powering the equipment needed.
What is agriculture?
The metal plates that absorb light particles and emit electrons to form an electric current.
What are photovoltaic panels?
Maximum amount of energy needed to power a neighborhood at time of highest usage.
Hydroelectricity accounts for this percentage of all electricity.
what is 16%?
Triple play (3 possible answers): these three nuclear power plants are famous for having high-profile, devastating accidents.
What are Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima?
This is the biggest hurdle in the production of renewable electricity.
What is the storage and transmission of energy?