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Fundamentals
100

The Idaho National Laboratory is the site of the first power plant to produce electricity by this method in 1951

Nuclear Power

100

Some like to work atop utility poles fixing these objects that reduce voltage so your home can use electricity

Transformers

100

10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for less than $14K

Solar

100

Until WWII, this candy bar had 3 pieces in one package, flavored chocolate, vanilla & strawberry; now it's all chocolate

Three Musketeers

100

Scientific unit of measure for magnetic flux density

tesla

200

Iceland is a leader in the generation of this type of renewable energy, from words meaning "earth" & "heat"

Geothermal

200

Hippies & survivalists may be "off" this, meaning living so as to not require electricity

the Grid

200

You have Albert Butz to thank for this little device that controls the temperature in your house

Thermostat

200

This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel

Nantucket

200

A standard unit of measure of electric power, one is equal to one joule per second

Watt

300

California's Ivanpah plant focuses solar rays to heat tanks of water, spinning turbines with this 19th century type of power

Steam

300

To allay fears of alternating current, he publicly lit lamps by allowing electricity to flow through his body

Nikola Tesla

300

An intense, sometimes irrational fear of the sun. 

Heliophobia

300

A 17th century matchlock is part of the British museum's collection of these firearms

a musket

300

The law named for this 18th century French physicist is the electrical analogue to the law of gravity

Charles Augustin de Coulomb

400

The biggest hydroelectric power producer in the U.S. is Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam on this river.

the Columbia

400

As reaffirmed by a 2011 referendum, Italy is the only G7 country that produces no electricity through this method

Nuclear

400

A new & growing condition is nomophobia, the fear of losing access to this--is there a charger nearby?

A mobile phone

400

This 5-letter so-called cat excretes a musk that is used in the making of perfumes

the civet

400

Current multiplied by resistance

Voltage

500

7-letter word for a renewable energy source made from algae, plants or animal waste

Biofuel

500

This non-profit group is responsible for for maintaining 90% of the integritity -- or lack thereof -- of the Texas Interconnection

ERCOT

500

Developers of this hyphenated type of battery that powers smartphones & electric cars won the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize

Lithium-Ion

500

When added to Nixon's enemies list, several senators took up spots, including Walter Mondale, William Proxmire & this man from Maine

Edmund Muskie

500

This German physicist's law governs the relationship between voltage & resistance

Georg Ohm