Electricity
The network that connects power generation to power use.
What is The Electric Grid?
Who patented and sold the first widely available electric lightbulbs?
Who is Thomas Edison?
This endangered animal brought wind farms to the Hawaii Supreme Court
What is the Ope'ape'a (extra points for Hawaiian!)
(Native Hawaiian bat)
One downside harnessing geothermal energy is that to hydraulic fracturing can trigger...
What are Earthquakes?
The Ocean is the World's largest collector and retainer of this.
What is the sun's energy?
What are the 3 particles in an atom that make electricity?
What are Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons?
This animal historically has a much higher electrical output than home outlets.
What is an electric eel?
This type of wind farm has been proposed as solution to Hawaii's wind woes
What are offshore wind farms?
Depth needed to access geothermal energy.
What is 1-2 miles beneath the earth’s surface?
The tide is caused / controlled by
Moon’s gravitational force
Materials that allow current to flow through them easily.
What are conductors?
Faraday discovered he could create an electric current by moving a copper coil around this.
What is a magnet?
Aside from having no emissions, the biggest wind energy pro is perhaps..
What is: it is the least expensive renewable energy type
One benefit of geothermal is that it generally does not produce this type of emission that many other energy sources produce.
What is Carbon?
These work best in narrow passages of water.
What are Underwater tidal turbines?
A measure of how much current can potentially move through a wire.
What is voltage?
The location of the first company in the U.S. to distribute electricity.
What is San Francisco?
Of the two types of wind turbines, this design is more efficient
What is vertical access?
These people used geothermal energy for thousands of years, using hot mineral springs for cooking and bathing.
Who are Ancient Romans, Chinese, or Native Americans? (any one counts as correct)
This type of energy most often uses floats that rise and fall to compress a hydraulic piston, turning a generator.
Wave energy
The human body can conduct electricity because it is composed of this (% needed for accurate response!).
What is 65% water?
The first electric generator
What is a Faraday Disk?
The percent of energy used in Hawaii that comes from wind power
What is approximately 8%?
This is how electricity is produced from geothermal!
What is geothermal heat produces steam that turns turbines on a generator?
First Wave power study site in the U.S.
What is a buoy off of the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base?