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