APES U6 - Chp. 17 Study Guide
1.Which of the form of energy is the most efficient?
2.What percentage of the commercial energy used in the United States is wasted?
3.What percentage of the commercial energy used in the United States is wasted unnecessarily?
4.According to Amory Lovins, the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to get more energy with the least environmental impact is what?
5.The least efficient method of space heating is what?
6.The most expensive way to provide space heat is by using what?
7.Energy efficiency could be improved by what?
8.Improving energy efficiency will do what?
9.Improving energy efficiency does what
10.45% of new passenger-car sales in Europe is made up of what?
11.Industry can reduce its energy consumption by doing what?
12.Utilities make money by selling electricity. To make more money, they have often encouraged customers to use even more electricity. This lack of incentive to improve energy efficiency creates what?
13.Energy efficiency can be encouraged by what?
14.Requiring higher average fuel-efficiency standards would do what?
15.The weakness of electric cars is what?
16.What are ecocars?
17.The energy efficiency of buildings can be improved by doing what?
18.The cheapest and most energy-efficient way to heat a house is superinsulation coupled with what?
19.The most effective water heater is what?
20.In 2004, what energy sources represented the highest total cost of producing electricity (in U.S. cents per kilowatt hour)?
21.Developing renewable energy resources could account for ____% of world energy production by 2050 or sooner.
22.Development of renewable energy resources would do what?
23.Which country gets 92% of its energy from renewable sources?
24.Advantages of solar space heating include what?
25.What can be used for cooling a house in warm weather?
26.Solar power plants (I guess you better know something about them!)
27.Cells that convert solar energy directly into electricity are called what?
28.The chief ingredient of most solar cells is what?
29.What are characteristic of solar cells?
30.In 1890, the first country to use wind turbines to produce commercial electricity was what?
31.Which countries produces the greatest proportion of its electricity by hydroelectric plants?
32.The world's fastest growing energy resource is what?
33.Wind farms (I guess you better know something about them!)
34.Biomass fuels (I guess you better know something about them!)
35.Biogas digesters are
36.Gasohol is gasoline mixed with what?
37.What are the advantages of using ethanol as a fuel?
38.A major disadvantage of using biomass for energy is what?
39.Geothermal energy is stored in what form?
40.Geothermal energy can be used for what?
41.Magma is what?
42.Which of the following disadvantages of the development of geothermal power is false?
43.Hydrogen gas can be used to do what?
45.Large-scale funding of hydrogen research would generally be least opposed by who?
46.Which of the following approaches emphasizes today's prices for short-term economic gain and inhibits long-term development of new energy resources?
47.A sustainable energy future is likely to encourage what?
49.What is likely to characterize a sustainable energy future?
50.According to Amory Lovins, the most expensive way to get more electricity would be what?