Energy Consumption
Fuels derived from biological material that became fossilized millions of years ago.
What is fossil fuels?
A relatively clean fossil fuel containing 80 to 95 percent methane and 5 to 20 percent ethane, propane, and butane.
What are natural gasses?
The collection of this energy often kills birds.
What is wind energy?
Electricity generated from the nuclear energy contained in nuclear fuel.
What is nuclear power?
Kinetic energy from moving water is used to create this kind of energy.
What is hydroelectricity?
Energy sources with a finite supply.
What are nonrenewable energy resources?
A solid fuel formed primarily from the remains of trees, ferns, and other plant materials that were preserved millions of years ago.
This resource emits large amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter.
What is coal?
When a parent radioactive isotope emits alpha or beta particles or gamma rays.
What is radioactive decay?
A device that converts energy from the sun directly into electrity.
What is a photovoltaic solar cell?
Energy sources that are bought and sold, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are commercial energy sources?
A liquid fuel such as ethanol or biodiesel created from processed or refined biomass.
What is biofuel?
This type of energy has a large amounts of heat pollution, is costly to build, and has large amounts of material that need to be properly thrown away.
What is nuclear power?
A cylindrical device between the fuel rods in a nuclear reactor that is supposed to absorb excess neutrons and slow/stop fission within the reactions.
What is a control rod?
Heat energy that comes from the natural radioactive decay of elements deep with Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
Methods for finding and implementing ways to use less energy.
What is energy conservation?
A precursor to coal, made up of partly decomposed organic material, including mosses.
What is peat?
This type of energy has high upfront costs, can only be collected during part of the day, and requires a significant amount of land.
What is solar energy?
This is how many grams of a 100-gram radioactive isotope sample remain after 30 years, if its half-life is 10 years.
What is 12.5 grams?
A use of energy from the Sun that takes advantage of solar radiation without active technology.
What is passive solar?
The energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP).
What is energy intensity?
The use of a fuel to both generate electricity and deliver heat to a building or industrial process.
What is cogeneration?
These kinds of energy can be gathered through fracking, which can cause water pollution, air pollution, and degradation of the soil?
What is oil and natural gas?
This nuclear power plant disaster was caused by a steam explosion and fire. Due to bad reactor designs, poorly trained operators, and inadequate safety test.
What is the Chernobyl Power Plant Disaster?
Energy the comes from the movement of water driven by gravitational pull of the moon.
What is tidal energy?