Renewable Energy Laboratory I: Sustainable Energy Production Basics - an internet-based exercise.

 

Please visit the following website: www.nrel.gov/ and answer the following questions:

 

1. What is the name of the website you are visiting? What government agency operates this website?

 

   

2. Please click on the Renewable Energy Basics link (http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_basics.html/) to

Answer the following questions:

 

  3. Click on the What is Renewable Energy? link (Please use the links on this page to answer the following questions

on each type of renewable energy). List 6 types of renewable energy:

   

 

 

4. List the types of solar energy technologies:

 

 

 

5. The basic technology for capturing wind energy is called a: ________ __________.

 

  

 

6. List the three sources of "bioenergy" and give examples from each type:

 

 

   

7. What is "geothermal energy"? How to we use this energy source currently?

 

 

 

 

8. Name the two type of hydroelectric plants and explain how each works:

 

   

 

9. What are the two types of "ocean energy" that can be used? Discuss how each type of energy conversion works.

 

  

 

10. Give 4 reasons renewable energy is important to us:

 

 

11. Why is energy efficiency important?

 

 

   

12. Visit the Home Energy Saver link (http://homeenergysaver.lbl.gov/). Please enter your zip code where you live.

What energy savings could you obtain by using the suggestions on this page for energy efficiency? List some important things you could do to improve the energy efficiency of the home/apartment you live in: