Relating to or being a commodity or resource, such as solar energy or firewood, that is inexhaustible or replaceable by new growth.
What is Renewable?
100
A chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
What is a Petrochemical?
100
The production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water.
What is Hydroelectric Energy?
100
The length of time for which a person or animal lives or a thing functions
What is a Life Span?
100
A viscous liquid derived from petroleum, esp. for use as a fuel or lubricant.
What is Oil?
200
The most common reference term used for mixtures in internal combustion engines.
What is Air-Fuel Ratio?
200
An element in an infrastructure that supplies electric energy for the recharging of plug-in electric vehicles, including all-electric cars, neighborhood electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
What is a Charging Station?
200
A thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture
What is a Hybrid?
200
The conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy.
What is Wind Energy?
200
A wide range of fuels which are in some way derived from biomass.
What is Bio-Fuel?
300
The ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons/liters of gasoline burned.
What is MPG/KPL?
300
The use of energy as a source of heat or power or as a raw material input to a manufacturing process.
What is Energy Consumption?
300
A cell producing an electric current directly from a chemical reaction
What is a Fuel Cell?
300
Radiant energy emitted by the sun.
What is Solar Energy?
300
A device that measures in real-time the amount of electricity a household is consuming and provides the user with a constant display of actual usage and cost.
What is an Energy Monitor?
400
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What is Fossil Fuel?
400
Any fuel whose energy derives principally from the oxidation or burning of carbon.
What is Carbon-Based Energy?
400
The amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to the the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc.
What is Carbon Footprint?
400
Can be accomplished by filters, gas masks, and isolating a space and purifying the air within that space.
What is Clean Air?
400
A solar heating or cooling system that uses no external mechanical power to move the collected solar heat.
What is a Passive System?
500
a solar heating or cooling system that requires external mechanical power to move the collected heat.
What is an Active System?
500
The branch of chemistry interested in spontaneous reactions that are used to generate an electrical current.
What is Electro-Chemical?
500
The action or business of promoting and selling products or services.
What is Marketing?
500
A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
What is British Thermal Units (BTU)?
500
Energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion.