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A state-chartered business that exists to perform specifics for and provide economic benefits to its members rather than to make a profit for investor owners.
What is a cooperative?
Ben Franklin
Who founded the first co-op in the US?
What types of things should you never fly near power lines?
Kites, Balloons, Drones, or any other type of flying toy
Name 2 different ways that electricity is produced.
Hydro (water), Solar, Wind, Nuclear, Bio Mass, gas and Coal.
This freshwater South American creature produces 500 volts of electricity through internal organs that act like batteries.
The people who use it.
Fire Insurance
What did the first US co-op sell?
Power Outage
True or False - ALL co-ops regardless of the type operate based on a set of seven cooperative principles.
True
When your clothes stick together after coming out of the dyer, or when you get a shock when touching a doorknob or something metal, what kind of electricity is that called?
Static electricity.
ACE Hardware, Welch's, Ocean Spray, Farm Bureau and Commonwealth Credit Union.
What are businesses ran as cooperatives?
Planting ________ around your home can block out the sun and help reduce energy costs in the summer.
Trees
_________ are hung overhead on poles or buried underground to help carry electricity from where it is generated to homes and businesses.
Power Lines
What is the name of the vehicle that lineworkers frequently operate to lift themselves up to the power lines?
Basket Truck or a Bucket Truck
What is the "D" in AED, or Automated Electric _____, a portable unit able to provide a life-saving electric shock to restart a heart or correct an irregular heart beat.
Defibrillator.
Rochdale, England
What was the first cooperative?
Items that consume electricity even when they are not turned on are known as ________.
Vampire or phantom Loads
What is the name of the big green (or sometimes gray) boxes that sit on cement pads (sometimes in yards) and reduce the voltage of the electricity so that it is safe to use in your home? Hint: this was also a popular movie series.
Transformers
Name one other type of cooperative besides an electric cooperative.
Agriculture Cooperative, Food Cooperative, Financial Cooperative, etc.
Which 1970s horror spoof is about a scientist who repeats his grandfather's "electrifying" reanimation experiments. Things go horribly wrong when Igor brings back from the brain depository something "Abby Normal".
Young Frankenstein - pronounced Fronk-un-steen!
Over 900
How many electric cooperatives are in the US?
At what wind speed can the fan blades on a wind turbine begin spinning to generate electricity?
6 to 9 mph
What should you do if you see a downed power line?
STAY AWAY!
You have no idea if they are live. You have to assume they are energized. Call the electricity provider or contact 911 to call the provider if you don’t know whose lines they are.
True or false: electric co-ops have customers.
False - co-ops have MEMBERS!
While most people think of Thomas Edison as the inventor of electric power generation, this Serbian-American's ideas contributed more to the design of today's alternating current system of electric supply.
Nicola Tesla