Sustainability
The three E's of Sustainability
What are Environment, Economy, Equity
One thousand watts
What is a kilowatt?
The most dangerous method of coal mining
What is underground mining?
The invention that accelerated the production of oil.
What is the Combustion Engine?
Reaction caused by the splitting of the nucleus of an atom, required for nuclear power.
What is Nuclear Fission?
Something that can be replenished
What is Renewable?
A thousand watts used for 1 hour. The rate at which energy is billed.
What is a Kilowatt Hour
The geological period which most coal was formed.
What is the Carboniferous Period?
The country with the largest reserves of oil.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The type of Uranium necessary for nuclear reactions.
What is Uranium-235?
Something that can never run out.
What is Sustainable?
The energy of motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
The most valuable "rank" of coal.
What is anthracite?
The theoretical point in time when oil production reaches it's highest levels, past or future.
What is Peak Oil?
The gas often present within underground Uranium mines.
What is Radon?
The "path" that carbon takes through the Earth's systems.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Stored Energy
What is Potential Energy?
The cheapest and safest method to mine for coal (but also the most destructive)
What is Strip or Mountaintop Removal Mining?
What OPEC stands for.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
By far the most costly component of nuclear energy production.
What is power plant construction?
Feedback Loop
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
Percent of Indiana electricity that comes from coal (within 5 percent)
What is 81%?
What "fracking" is short for.
What is Hydraulic Fracturing?
The mostly abandoned nuclear waste repository in the US
What is Yucca Mountain?