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Lighting Technology
Energy-Star
Zero-Carbon Buildings
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New Materials
100
This bulb produces light by passing an electrical current through a wire.
What is an incandescent light bulb?
100
This appliance uses half the amount of water and almost half the amount of electricity, which can save over $100 a year in living costs.
What is an Energy-Star Washing Machine?
100
The use of natural day-lighting, rooftop solar cells, rooftop solar water space heaters, ultra insulation, natural ventilation, ground source heat pumps, waterless urinals, and lighting motion sensors are all related to this type of practice.
What is energy efficiency?
100
The world's top selling hybrid car.
What is the Toyota Prius?
100
This is an effective way to encourage recycling.
What is a landfill tax?
200
A Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (that uses 75% less energy than an incandescent light bulb.)
What is CFL?
200
This appliance heats cookware more efficiently, faster (consuming less energy) and produces less waste heat.
What is an Energy-Star Oven.
200
This council has 4 certification levels - Certified, Silver, Gold & Platinum.
What is LEED?
200
This entry level car averages 150 miles per gallon.
What is the Chevrolet Volt?
200
The United States manufactures 28 billion of these each year.
What are plastic water bottles?
300
A Light-Emitting Diode Bulb (that uses less than 85% of energy than an incandescent light bulb.)
What is a LED light bulb?
300
This set top box is over 30% more energy efficient.
What is an Energy Star DVR?
300
This sector in the United States of America accounts for 72% of electricity usage and 38% of CO2 emissions.
What is the residential building sector?
300
Cars that use an electric motor instead of a combustion engine.
What are electric vehicles?
300
Industry accounts for ___% of world energy consumption?
What is 30%?
400
The most in-efficient electrical lighting technology.
What is an incandescent light bulb?
400
This appliance senses how clean or dirty a load is and adjusts the energy/water usage accordingly.
What is a Soil Sensing Dishwasher?
400
This country requires all new buildings to get at least 15% of heating from renewable energy.
What is Germany?
400
This system bullet train carries 413,000 passengers a day.
What is Japan's High Speed Rail Network?
400
This process uses less energy and produces less waste than producing items from virgin materials.
What is recycling?
500
This lighting technology is solid-state and mercury free.
What is LED lighting?
500
These "Products in your home suck energy while not providing any useful function! This energy is sometimes called "standby power." While standby power sometimes provides useful functions such as remote control, clock displays, and timers, in other cases it is simply wasted power as a result of leaving an electronic device or power adapter plugged in. The average U.S. household spends $100 per year to power devices while they are off (or in standby mode)." ENERGY STAR ®. 4-7-2015. US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy. http://www.energystar.gov
What are Energy Vampires?
500
This challenge aims to design buildings that uses no non-renewable fuel such as fossil fuels.
What is the 2030 challenge?
500
This country consumes more gasoline than 20 countries combined. (Including Japan, China, Russia, Germany, & Brazil.)
What is the United States?
500
In this country 29% of garbage is recycled, 7% is burned, and 64% goes to landfills.
What is the United States?