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| What are the three primary geothermal technologies? |
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-Geothermal reservoir extraction
-Heat pump technology
-Enhanced geothermal technology
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| Enhanced geothermal technology, explain? |
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Tap the heat contained in underground rocks
Inject cold water underground, let it get heated, then extract it
Very early developmental stages, pilot plant in France |
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| Geothermal reservoir extraction |
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Gets steam or hot water from underground reservoirs
Limited resource locations throughout the world
Generate electricity as well as heated water used for direct heating
Most efficient and cheapest plant design is from a dry steam resource |
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Typically used on individual home basis
Through a thermodynamic cycle, extract heat from the upper crust
Tremendous growth area, over 1 million systems in US, growing 40K/year
–Enhanced |
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| What % of renewable energy comes from Geothermal? |
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| What % of overall US energy come from Geothermal? |
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| Why would Geothermal be one of the most significant renewable energy sources? |
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-provide firm and predictable power on a 24 hour basis.
-Unlike many renewables, it can provide the consistency for baseload power |
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| What type of energy would Wind be considered? |
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| Fastest growing alternative energy both in the US and worldwide? |
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| largest factor in determining the wind energy available |
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| The bulk of the wind resource is the US is located? |
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-in the central states
-off the 2 coasts |
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| When can wind energy be competitive with fossil based electricity. |
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| When placed in proper location |
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| One of the impediments to wind power expansion in the central states (including the UP) is |
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| lack of sufficient electric transmission infrastructure |
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| Is more electricity generated from wind power than any other renewable energy source. |
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| Could Geothermal energy could provide all the energy the world needs. |
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| What do Heat pumps, or ground source, geothermal do? |
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| uses the constant temperature of the near surface earth to heat homes |
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Ground coil heat pump systems indirectly obtain thier energy from the sun.
T&F |
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Enhanced geothermal systems (hot dry rock systems) indirectly obtain thier energy from the sun.
TorF |
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| What is Nuclear power basically |
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| Direct conversion of mass to energy |
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| What is a nuclear reaction? |
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| when 2 nuclei collide producing different products than the initial products |
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| The break-up of one atom into two or more pieces |
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Joining of two separate atoms into one new atom
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| Will likely see significant growth in this sector of energy? |
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| Will become a major contributor to electricity production |
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| Will be a high growth area of renewablesin next 20 years? |
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| High costs will limit significant growth in near term? |
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| Both of these withh be largest growth areas of renewables in next 20 years |
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| Name four Developing Technologies |
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-Concentrated Solar Power (Concentrated PV)
Ocean Energy (Wave & Tidal)
Enhanced Geothermal (Hot Dry Rock Technology)
Integrated Bioenergy(integrated gasifier, biorefinary)
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| T or F, The supply of oil is going to run out in 5-15 years. |
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| The US imports _________ of its coal from other countries. |
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| US oil production has ___________ over the past couple of decades. |
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| Fossil fuel based power plants produce emissions that |
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contribute to acid rain
contribute to the greenhouse effect |
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| Most technical research has concluded that the energy content in ethanol is __________ than the energy content of the fossil fuel used to create it. |
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| What is the percentage of US energy production that comes from biomass? |
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| Where is the most biomass concentrated in the US? |
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| Nearly all the gasoline sold in the US contains _____ ethanol. |
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