Thermal
Generating electricity from heat
What is thermal energy?
Windmills and wind turbines
How do we gather wind to use for energy?
Electric arc
What is one type of electrical energy?
Solar energy
What is energy from the sun called?
Drying clothes, heating homes and pools, cooking
What is natural gas used for?
Heater, oven
How is thermal energy used?
Kinetic energy
What type of energy do wind turbines convert other than wind energy?
An electrical breakdown of a gas that produces an ongoing electrical discharge
What is an electric arc?
Plants
What uses solar energy the most?
Breathing it
How is natural gas dangerous?
Kinetic energy
What is thermal energy an example of?
Provides electricity and pumps water
How does wind energy help us?
Welding
What is an electric arc used for?
Drying clothes, heating homes, heating water, cooking, powering cars
How is solar energy used?
Wind
Which type of energy is renewable?
A flow of electrical energy
What does electric energy result from?
Solar panels
How do we gather energy from the sun?