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