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