This is the name for types of atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of electrons.
What is an isotope?
100
This crop that is most heavily used for ethanol production in the Us
What is corn
100
This is the primary feedstock for biodiesel.
What is vegetable oil?
100
This is the percent of the world's energy that currently comes from solar energy.
What is 1%?
100
This is an electrochemical cell that produces electricity by converting the chemical energy of a fuel directly into electricity without burning the fuel.
What is a fuel cell?
200
The biggest nuclear power plant disaster happened here.
What is Chernobyl, Ukraine
200
This is the process by which corn is turned into ethanol.
What is fermentation?
200
This facility recycles municipal waste into electricity in Minneapolis, MN.
What is Hennepin County Resource Recovery Facility?
200
This type of semiconductor has an abundance of electrons.
What is n-type?
200
A standard fuel cell, which uses a platinum catalyst to form H+ ions and a special membrane to allow H+ ions to pass through
What is PEM or proton exchange membrane?
300
This country derives over 75% of their electricity from nuclear power.
What is France?
300
This country derives almost all of its automotive fuel from sugarcane.
What is Brazil?
300
Sewage and manure can be used as a source material to produce this fuel.
What is biogas?
300
This element is the most commonly used element in solar cells.
What is silicon?
300
This process is used to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen using an electric current
What is electrolysis?
400
This is the process of splitting a large nucleus into smaller ones with the release of energy.
What is nuclear fission?
400
This type of biofuel is derived from non-food based crops, such as switchgrass, wood chips, and the corn stalk.
What is cellulosic ethanol?
400
Plant oils are converted to biodiesel through this process.
What is transesterification?
400
These systems alternate thin layers of p-type and n-type doped silicon to improve the over cell efficieny.
What is a multijunction solar cell?
400
These chemicals hold hydrogen much like a sponge holds water, allowing for easier transport
What is metal hydrides?
500
This is the percentage of the world's energy which comes from nuclear reactions.
What is 14%
500
This plant is being researched at the University of Illinois as an improvement upon corn for ethanol production and has shown very promising results.
What is miscanthus?
500
Many have reservations about biodiesel usage as it does produce more of this pollutant than standard fuels.
What is NOx?
500
These systems use the heat energy from the sun to generate steam which turns a turbine to create electricity.
What is concentrated solar power (CSP)?
500
These extended inorganic structures will potentially be utilized at some point in the future as a method to transport hydrogen.