Renewables
This mineral is used in solar panels.
What is silicon?
The site a nuclear power plant disaster.
What is Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima, Japan?
This is more efficient - EROI of 90 (hydropower) or EROI of 5 (oil sands)?
What is 90 or hydropower?
What is natural gas?
All fossil fuels emit this greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
This type of solar energy does not require any energy input.
What is passive solar energy?
The atom broken down in nuclear fission.
What is Uranium 235?
The number of years for 6g of Uranium to decay to 1.5g if the half life of Uranium is 5,240 years.
What is 10,480 years?
This renewable energy source is not found in Southern Nevada.
What is geothermal energy?
This process is an easy way to extract natural gas from shale layers of rock.
What is fracking?
This type of renewable has the lowest EROI.
What is ethanol or biofuel?
This pipeline brings oil from Alaska to the refineries in the lower 48 states.
What is the Keystone Pipeline?
Paris Agreement of 2015 to stop global warming was set to a limit warming by 1.5 degrees C. We have currently warmed by 1.23 degrees C. This is the number of degrees we have remaining until we reach the Paris agreement limit.
What is 0.27 degrees C?
Nevada has made a commitment to increase productive use of this gas that is emitted form landfills.
What is natural gas/methane?
This fossil fuel releases a high amount of particulate matter, SOx and NOx.
What is coal?
White Hills Arizona is the closest.
What is a wind farm?
The early formation is peat.
What is coal?
Our electricity rate is $0.17/kwh. If a hair dryer uses 2KW of electricity, this is the cost for running it continuously for 24 hours?
What is $8.16?
The most abundant renewable energy found in Southern Nevada.
What is solar energy?
This fossil fuel makes up plastic.
What is oil/petroleum?
This is the ground temperature for residential geothermal.
What is 50-60 degrees F?
These organisms become oil.
What is phytoplankton/zooplankton/sea life?
What is 800 years?
This dam produces a small amount of electricity for some parts of Nevada.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This allows coal to become "clean".
What are scrubbers/chemicals to remove particulate matter, SOx or NOx?