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Biomass
Geothermal
Hydropower
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
100
Wood, solid waste, landfill gas, agricultural products, and biofuels
What are some types of biomass?
100
Flash steam, dry steam, binary cycle, and hybrid power plants
What are some different types of geothermal power plants?
100
Depending on the amount of rainfall, about 5% to 10%
How much electricity do we get from hydropower today?
100
Light, heat, and electricity
What are its major uses?
100
Wind turbines
What is harnessed and converted into electricity using turbines?
200
Corn
Where does the majority of the ethanol produced in the U.S comes from?
200
It pumps hot water from reservoir through a heat exchanger that transfers the heat to separate water pipes which go to many buildings
What is district energy systems?
200
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, and New York
What are the top states that produce hydropower?
200
Solar Energy
What is the energy that is produced by the sun?
200
California, Washington, Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas
What is the best place to build a wind plant?
300
Biomass Energy
What is an organic matter that can be used as an energy source
300
in Western States and Hawaii
Where are the best-known geothermal energy sources in the U.S located?
300
Tidal energy
What is the most promising source of ocean energy for today and near the future?
300
A green house or solar collectors
What absorbs the sunlight and changes into heat?
300
A weather vane
What is a device used to monitor the direction of the wind?
400
Electricity, transportation fuel, and heating
What are its major uses?
400
Geothermal Energy
What comes from the heat within the Earth
400
Hydropower
What is the energy that comes fromt he force of moving water?
400
Fusion
What involves hydrogen isotopes combining to form a helium atom with a transformation of matter?
400
Is simply air in motion
What is wind?
500
52%
What percent of the biggest user in the U.S used?
500
The Ring of Fire
Most of the world's geothermal activity occour in what area?
500
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion has the potentioal to produce more nergy than tidal, wave, and wind energy
What is OTEC?
500
It comes from within the sun itself
Where does the energy come from that constantly radiates from the sun?
500
Efficiency and Capacity factor
How much energy can we get form the wind?