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Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy Revolution
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Corporate Average Fuel Economy
CAFE
Fuel Cell
Cogeneration
DOE
2. Department of Energy
Passive Solar Heating System
DOE
Life cycle cost
CAFE
3. Distributed reciever system with sunlight collected and focused on pipes
Solar Thermal plant
Dry Steam
Net Energy Efficiency
Fuel Cell
4. Where hydrogen and oxygen are combined to produce electrical currents - have no moving parts - are quiet - only emit water or heat - and are more reliable
Passive Solar Heating System
Fuel Cell
Green design
Large scale hydropower
5. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Power tower
Compressed gas storage tanks
Small scale hydropower
OTEC
6. Low dam is built across a stream
Solar Thermal Systems
Small scale hydropower
OTEC
Dry Steam
7. Use bowls basically to store sunlight
Reforming
We steam
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Passive Solar Heating System
8. Organic material that can be used as fuels
Biofuels
OTEC
Solar Thermal plant
Life cycle cost
9. Energy from heat contained in underground rocks
Geothermal
Micropower systems
We steam
Net Energy Efficiency
10. Initial cost plus lifetime opperating cost
Energy Efficiency
Large scale hydropower
Life cycle cost
Dry Steam
11. Energy efficient smaller technology to be used in every day life
Micropower systems
Strawbale houses
DOE
Solar Thermal Systems
12. Combined heat and power CHP - two useful materials are produced from the same fuel source.
Solar Thermal plant
Geothermal
Pumped Storage hydropower
Cogeneration
13. Corporate Average Fuel Economy
Passive Solar Heating System
We steam
CAFE
OTEC
14. Pumps using surplus electricity from a powerplant pump water from one lake to another
Net Energy Efficiency
Pumped Storage hydropower
Solar Thermal Systems
Micropower systems
15. Stores hydrogen above or below ground - very expensive
DOE
Dry Steam
Compressed gas storage tanks
PV
16. Initial cost plus lifetime opperating cost
Life cycle cost
Active Solar Heating System
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Net Energy Efficiency
17. Dam is built across a large river to create a resevoir - uses turbines
Net Energy Efficiency
solar-hydrogen revolution
Biofuels
Large scale hydropower
18. Pumps using surplus electricity from a powerplant pump water from one lake to another
Biofuels
Fuel Cell
CAFE
Pumped Storage hydropower
19. Central retriever system that uses mirrors to collect heat
Life cycle cost
Power tower
Reforming
Biofuels
20. Where hydrogen and oxygen are combined to produce electrical currents - have no moving parts - are quiet - only emit water or heat - and are more reliable
Fuel Cell
OTEC
Passive Solar Heating System
OTEC
21. Energy of the entire delivery process - determined by efficiency of each step of the procedure
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Net Energy Efficiency
Small scale hydropower
Compressed gas storage tanks
22. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Green design
Green design
OTEC
Cogeneration
23. Homes with walls made of bales covered with plaster or adobe
Life cycle cost
Strawbale houses
Micropower systems
Cogeneration
24. Produces hydrogen by using chemical processes and high temperatures to seperate hydrogen atoms from carbon
Micropower systems
Reforming
Pumped Storage hydropower
Passive Solar Heating System
25. Started at the end of the Age of Oil
Cogeneration
DOE
solar-hydrogen revolution
DOE
26. Homes with walls made of bales covered with plaster or adobe
CAFE
Strawbale houses
Net Energy Efficiency
OTEC
27. Use bowls basically to store sunlight
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Strawbale houses
Dry Steam
Large scale hydropower
28. Absorbs and stores heat from the sun directly within a structure. Example is greenhouse
Parabolic Dish Collectors
DOE
Cogeneration
Passive Solar Heating System
29. The percentage of total input into a conversion device or system that does useful work and is not converted to useless heat
Reforming
Passive Solar Heating System
OTEC
Energy Efficiency
30. Collectors absorb energy and a fan or pump supplies part of the building's space heating
Solar Thermal Systems
Pumped Storage hydropower
Active Solar Heating System
Dry Steam
31. Stores hydrogen above or below ground - very expensive
solar-hydrogen revolution
Compressed gas storage tanks
Passive Solar Heating System
Reforming
32. Organic material that can be used as fuels
Biofuels
Micropower systems
Life cycle cost
Life cycle cost
33. The percentage of total input into a conversion device or system that does useful work and is not converted to useless heat
Energy Efficiency
solar-hydrogen revolution
We steam
DOE
34. Collect and transform radiant energy from the sun into thermal energy that can be converted to electricity
Solar Thermal Systems
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Solar Thermal plant
Passive Solar Heating System
35. Department of Energy
DOE
Fuel Cell
Active Solar Heating System
Pumped Storage hydropower
36. Combined heat and power CHP - two useful materials are produced from the same fuel source.
Small scale hydropower
Solar Thermal plant
Compressed gas storage tanks
Cogeneration
37. Energy from heat contained in underground rocks
Green design
Geothermal
Large scale hydropower
Reforming
38. Photovoltaic cells - or solar cells. Transparent wafer with a semiconductor material hanging and creates an electrical current
PV
OTEC
Net Energy Efficiency
Strawbale houses
39. Use of passive solar energy and solar cells
OTEC
PV
Solar Thermal plant
Green design
40. Low dam is built across a stream
Strawbale houses
Solar Thermal Systems
Small scale hydropower
Cogeneration
41. Photovoltaic cells - or solar cells. Transparent wafer with a semiconductor material hanging and creates an electrical current
We steam
PV
Micropower systems
Pumped Storage hydropower
42. Central retriever system that uses mirrors to collect heat
solar-hydrogen revolution
Power tower
Biofuels
Passive Solar Heating System
43. Steam with no water droplets
Power tower
Dry Steam
Cogeneration
Fuel Cell
44. Produces hydrogen by using chemical processes and high temperatures to seperate hydrogen atoms from carbon
Reforming
Parabolic Dish Collectors
Passive Solar Heating System
Dry Steam
45. Dam is built across a large river to create a resevoir - uses turbines
Net Energy Efficiency
Geothermal
Large scale hydropower
Energy Efficiency
46. Collectors absorb energy and a fan or pump supplies part of the building's space heating
DOE
solar-hydrogen revolution
Active Solar Heating System
Micropower systems
47. Started at the end of the Age of Oil
Parabolic Dish Collectors
solar-hydrogen revolution
Solar Thermal plant
Strawbale houses
48. Energy efficient smaller technology to be used in every day life
Small scale hydropower
Micropower systems
Active Solar Heating System
OTEC
49. Collect and transform radiant energy from the sun into thermal energy that can be converted to electricity
Large scale hydropower
Life cycle cost
Solar Thermal plant
Solar Thermal Systems
50. Mixture of steam and water droplets
We steam
Net Energy Efficiency
Passive Solar Heating System
Solar Thermal Systems