Energy Efficiency
This type of light bulb uses up to 75% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs.
What is an LED bulb?
ICF used to stand for this organization.
What is the Inner City Fund?
This country won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 while hosting the tournament.
What is Uruguay?
This fossil fuel powered much of the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal?
The Amazon River flows primarily through this country.
What is Brazil?
The ratio of useful energy output to total energy input is called this.
What is efficiency?
This year ICF was founded.
What is 1969?
This tennis player completed a Career Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal in singles.
Who is Steffi Graf?
The first commercial oil well was drilled in this U.S. state in 1859.
What is Pennsylvania?
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
Buildings with high R-values have more of this property.
What is insulation (thermal resistance)?
This founder helped establish the ICF in 1995.
Who is Clarence D. Lester?
The "Miracle on Ice" occurred during these Winter Olympics, where the United States defeated the Soviet Union.
What are the 1980 Winter Olympics (Lake Placid)?
This 1973 event caused a major global energy crisis.
What is the Oil Embargo (OPEC Oil Crisis)?
This city has a museum dedicated to sewers.
What is Paris?
This certification program identifies energy-efficient buildings and products.
What is ENERGY STAR?
Developed by ICF in 1977 with the Federal Energy Administration, this model helped forecast energy-sector trends and evaluate regulatory impacts on coal and electric utilities.
What is the Coal and Electric Utilities Model?
This NHL legend finished his career with 2,857 points, a record that still stands.
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
This scientist's work on electromagnetism helped pave the way for electric power generation.
Who is Michael Faraday?
This country has the most official languages in the world.
What is South Africa?
This term describes using technology to perform the same task while consuming less energy.
What is energy efficiency?
ICF shifted to energy consulting in this year.
What is 1972?
Before the modern era, this athlete won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics and later became a professional football player, baseball player, and military officer.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This power plant in Idaho became the first to generate usable electricity from nuclear energy in 1951.
What is EBR-I (Experimental Breeder Reactor I)?
This rainforest is the oldest in the world.
What is the Daintree Rainforest?