Methane is produced in this type of decay process, without oxygen.
What is anaerobic decay
100
New name for the Holocene which reflects human impacts on Earth, visible in the sedimentary record.
What is the Anthropocene
100
Option for solar thermal power generation for College Rec Center recommended by 2014 students.
What is unglazed flat-plate collectors
100
In 1992, the US and 164 other nations signed this international environmental treaty, aiming to limit global warming to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level
What is the UN Framework on Climate Change.
100
One of these strategies would eliminate 1 billion tons per year of carbon emissions over a period of 50 years.
What are Wedges
200
Relationship between R-value and thermal conductivity
What is inversely proportional
200
Time interval between ice ages, in the recent past.
What is about 100,000 years
200
This device converts random thermal energy into mechanical energy.
What is a heat engine.
200
In Dec. 2015, negotiators from 195 nations, including the US, approved this international agreement to try to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement (Conference of the Parties 21)
200
Factor by which wind power capacity must increase to make a wedge.
What is about 5 times more
300
Number of people per week whose produce needs could be met by a 3300 sq ft garden
What is 25
300
Time interval between ice ages, in the future.
What is forever? (Earth may not have another ice age in the foreseeable future, due to historically high GHG levels.)
300
This piece of electrical equipment has more turns on its primary side than it does on its secondary.
What is a step-up transformer
300
People in this country emit triple the global average CO2 per capita, leading most of the world in national carbon emissions.
What is the USA
300
Factor by which geological carbon sequestration must increase to make a wedge.
What is about 3500 times more
400
A heat exchange system with ground water works best in THIS type of climate.
What is an extreme climate (to maximize temperature differences, therefore efficiencies).
400
This socio-economic era is currently evolving from the industrial eras, in Rifkin’s vision.
What is the Collaborative Era
400
Scrubbers remove most of this pollutant from coal plants, reducing acid rain.
What is sulfur dioxide (SO2).
400
Shell No and Thurston Climate Action Team are examples of THIS type of process, by which small groups can create significant change.
What is bottom-up action
400
Three opportunities from sustainable infrastructure
What are jobs, resiliency, long term savings, and improved ecosystems and communities.
500
A system with devices that monitor other devices, potentially saving energy and labor, and preventing external failures.
What is a Building Management System.
500
Three of the five pillars of Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution
What are Renewable energy – Distributed power – H2 and other storage – Smart grid – Electric + fuel cell vehicles integrated into grid
500
Factor by which a fuel cell car reduces carbon emissions compared to a gasoline car, under typical US conditions.
What is one half (the gasoline car emits less carbon, unless H2 is produced with renewable energy).
500
Three legs of sustainability.
What are Economy, Ecology, and Community (or People, Planet, and Profit).
500
DAILY DOUBLE
Three drawbacks to any geo-engineering scheme to cool the planet.