Acronyms
Acts-Section 2
Acts-Section 1
Renewable Energy
Important Figures
100
EPA
What is Environmental Protection Agency
100
This act was designed to protect and recover at-risk species and ecosystems
What is Endangered Species Act (ESA)
100
The president who signed the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Who is George HW Bush?
100
This form of renewable energy includes ethanol and biodiesel.
What is biofuel?
100
Published the book Silent Spring in 1962.
Who is Rachel Carson?
200
CFC
What is Chlorofluorocarbons
200
This act was heavily influenced by environmental events and originally passed in 1963.
What is Clean Air Act
200
This act called for an increase in the amount of biofuels and authorized subsidies for wind and alternative energy.
What is Energy Policy Act of 2005?
200
This form of renewable energy is heat stored in rock and trapped in liquids such as water and brine.
What is geothermal energy?
200
President who established the Department of Energy.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
CWA
What is Clean Water Act
300
This act governed the disposal of solid and hazardous waste.
What is Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
300
This act created markets for power produced by qualifying facilities and exempted them from most state and federal utility regulation.
What is Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978?
300
This form of energy storage rotates to store rotational energy, with more energy stored as speed increases.
What are Flywheels?
300
Resolution named after the two individuals who stopped the US from signing the Kyoto Protocol.
Who are Byrd and Hagel.
400
NPDES
What is National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
400
First legislation of its kind that acknowledged the history of environmental degradation and promoted the general welfare.
What is National Environmental Policy Act
400
The 1973 oil crisis and Ford's persuasion led to the creation of this act.
What is Energy Policy and Conservation Act?
400
This form of energy storage pumps water from a low reservoir to a higher one and discharges water to power a turbine.
What is Conventional pumped hydro storage?
400
The geoscientist who predicted that oil production in the US would decline between 1965 and 1971.
Who is M. King Hubbert?
500
CERCLA
What is Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
500
The original name for the Clean Water Act before it was amended in 1972.
What is Federal Pollution Control Act
500
This act includes the Energy Tax Act, the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, the Power Plant, and the Natural Gas Policy Act.
What is National Energy Act of 1978.
500
The chief weakness of wind energy.
What is intermittency?
500
He introduced a system based on alternating current, which could send electricity for hunderds of miles without major power losses.
Who is Westinghouse?
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