Renewable Energy
Non-Renewable Energy
Energy & The Environment
Nuclear Energy
Exec Fun Facts
100
This renewable source uses moving air to spin turbines
What is wind energy?
100
This fossil fuel is primarily composed of methane and is often transported via pipelines
What is natural gas?
100
The largest contributor to rising atmospheric CO2 levels is this
What is burning fossil fuels?
100
This is the most common fuel form loaded into today's commercial nuclear reactors
What is uranium dioxide, UO2?
100
This exec member can ride a unicycle
Who is Will?
200
The photovoltaic effect converts this type of energy into electricity
What is sunlight or solar energy?
200
This nuclear process splits heavy atomic nuclei such as uranium-235 to release large amounts of energy in commercial reactors
What is nuclear fission?
200
Chlorofluorocarbons were phased out due to their damage to
What is the ozone layer?
200
Unlike fission, this nuclear reaction combines light isotopes like deuterium and tritium to release energy via helium nuclei and neutrons
What is nuclear fusion?
200
This exec member has a sourdough starter named Greta
Who is Elise?
300
This heating and cooling technology takes advantage of subsurface temperatures, underground loops, and a heat pump to heat and cool your house
What is a geothermal heat pump?
300
In a typical coal-fired power plant, this thermodynamic cycle describes the steam turbine process that converts heat to shaft work
What is the Rankine cycle?
300
Mandated on U.S. cars since 1975, this exhaust device uses precious metals like platinum to scrub toxic gases out of engine emissions before they leave the tailpipe.
What is a catalytic converter?
300
The electric output of the Seabrook plant is
What is 1253MW?
300
This exec has a dog named after a Christmas movie
Who is Abby?
400
Because solar panels are designed to absorb as much sunlight as possible, they have a very low value for this measure of surface reflectivity.
What is albedo?
400
Before coal or biomass can be chemically converted into liquid fuels, it undergoes this high-temperature process to turn the solid resource into a gas.
What is gasification?
400
Acid rain happens primarily due to the emission of these two oxides.
What are sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides?
400
This precursor is produced from uranium ore 
What is yellow cake or U3O8?
400
This exec member has two bee hives
Who is Fiona?
500
This liquid biofuel is produced by transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats with an alcohol, typically methanol
What is biodiesel?
500
This type of coal combusts at (870C-1925C)
What is anthracite?
500
Often used in coal-fired power plants to reduce air pollution, these high-efficiency filtration devices use an electrical charge to trap and remove up to 99% of fine particulate matter from smokestack gases.
What are electrostatic precipitators?
500
The diameter of the tunnels taking water to and from the Atlantic Ocean at Seabrook Nuclear Power plant is
What is 22 ft?
500
The english translation of Eleftheria's name is
What is freedom?