What is Energy
History of Energy
Clean Energy
Dirty Energy
Energy Pop Culture
100

This is a fundamental form of energy that is basically described as the movement and interaction of electrons.

What is electricity?

100

This international, and legally-binding treaty from COP21 aims to limit and reduce global warming.

What is the Paris Agreement?

100

This is the largest source of clean energy in the world. 

What is Hydropower?

100

This source of energy is considered “renewable”, even though it releases a lot of particulate matter and greenhouse gasses.

What is biomass?
100

This fictional power plant, run by Montgomery Burns, is one of the main sources of pop culture misinformation on nuclear waste.

What is Springfield Nuclear Power Plant

200

The sun uses this kind of energy to warm our planet, by combining two lighter elements to form a heavier one.

What is fusion?

200

This clean energy source was first invented in the 1800’s by A.E. Becquerel.

What is Solar?

200

This source of energy uses the least amount of material and land per MWh produced. 

What is Nuclear?

200

This type of power plant releases the most amount of radioactive particles into the environment from its normal production.

What is a coal power plant?

200

Nuclear power warning labels have inspired incredible memes about these kinds of shorts.

What are booty shorts?

300

This person formulated the first law of thermodynamics, also known as the Law of Conservation of Energy.

Who is Einstein?

300

This was the largest accident at an energy facility in recorded history – from which, hundreds of thousands died and millions lost their homes.

What is the Banquiao Dam collapse?

300

This country has the largest share of nuclear power in total electricity generation of any other country.

What is France?

300

To distinguish it from another fossil fuel, this fossil fuel was called “natural” because it can be extracted from the ground in its native gaseous form.

What is methane gas?
300

This 2001 classic movie is about a clueless fashion model whose family works in coal mines.

What is Zoolander?

400

When harnessing wind or solar energy, we are harnessing this type of energy by reason of its motion.

What is kinetic energy?

400

Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938 in this country.

What is Germany?

400

This is the most abundant source of energy on the planet?

What is solar energy?

400

This is the process used to mitigate the release of CO2 into the atmosphere when burning fossil fuels by trapping and storing it.

What is carbon capture?
400

The musical artist Lourde put out this album in 2021 with the title song starting with the lyrics “I hate the winter, can't stand the cold.”

What is "Solar Power"?

500

This is the term to describe the actual output of an energy source vs. its maximum potential output

What is Capacity Factor?

500

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant continued to produce power until this year. 

What is 2000?

500

This source of energy uses heat already existing in the earth, instead of using resources to create heat. 

What is geothermal?

500

This oil is thicker and more energy dense than gasoline so it is used to power heat-engines and large machinery like boats and trucks.

What is diesel?
500

Windmills make a prominent literary appearance in this 1605 Spanish novel about a man of questionable sanity.

What is Don Quixote?

600

This system of cables conducts electromagnetic waves, making it possible to power our homes and factories.

What are transmission lines?

600

This environmental organization was originally founded in 1971 as the "Don't Make a Wave Committee" to protest U.S. nuclear weapons testing off the coast of Alaska.

What is Greenpeace?

600

This is the world’s first nuclear reactor, located in Africa.

What is Oklo?

600

This flammable hydrocarbon liquid fuel is often used in place of gas to heat homes and was originally used to light lamps, before the electric lightbulb.

What is kerosene?
600

Named for the fictional craft piloted by Captain Nemo, this submarine laid her keel on June 14, 1952, and became the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine when it entered service 18 months later.

What is the USS Nautilus?