Test: The Renewable energy Quiz

In _____ and Wales there is a Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation, which provides support for renewable energy.

_____s are more portable because they have high energy density, and they can be pumped, which makes handling easier.

For example, a _____ megawatt turbine with a capacity factor of 35% will not produce _____ megawatt-hours in a year, but only _____.35x24x365=3,066MWh, averaging to _____.35 MW.

Solutions such as _____s may be more widely applicable, but may not be economical in all cases.

More than _____ very small solar panels, each producing _____ to _____ watts, are sold in Kenya

Plants use _____ to grow and produce biomass.

Lovins goes on to say that the unreliability of renewable energy is a myth, while the unreliability of _____ is real.

Examples are the _____ in Washington State and the Akosombo Dam in Ghana.

For example, three German states were more than _____ percent wind-powered in 2007—and more than _____ percent in some months.

Subject to successful operation, a further €70 million is likely to be invested before _____ on a further _____ machines to generate _____ MW.

A proposed 4,000 MW facility, called the _____, is to be located near Pampa, Texas.

The _____ will consist of some 550,000 thin-film solar modules.

In rural and remote areas, transmission and distribution of energy generated from _____ can be difficult and expensive.

Liquid biofuel is usually either a bioalcohol such as _____ or a bio-oil such as biodiesel and straight vegetable oil.

The project will provide enough energy for _____ homes and will save an estimated _____ tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

_____ is the generation of heat from renewable sources.

There are many of these installations around the world, including several delivering around 50 kW in the _____.

Alternatively biogas can be produced via advanced waste processing systems such as _____.

The _____ classifies geothermal power as renewable.

Nuclear energy has also been referred to as "renewable" by politicians like George W. Bush, _____, and David Sainsbury.

Tidal stream power demonstration projects exist, and the first commercial prototype will be installed in _____ in September 2007.

A $_____ million large-scale Solar power station in Victoria is to be the biggest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in the world.

Available storage options include pumped-storage hydro systems, batteries, hydrogen _____s, and thermal mass.

Also known as biomatter, biomass can be used directly as fuel or to produce liquid _____.

Lake-bottom water is a year-round local constant of about 4°C.

_____ now has the world's first commercial wave farm, the Aguçadora Wave Park, established in 2006.

_____, is a geothermal power field located 72 miles north of San Francisco, California.

However, it is has not been established that nuclear energy is inexhaustible, and issues such as _____ and Uranium depletion are ongoing debates.

Iceland produced _____ MW geothermal power and heated 86% of all houses in the year _____ through geothermal energy.

The ratio of actual productivity in a year to this theoretical maximum is called the _____.

_____ and global warming groups propose a 100% Renewable Energy Source Supply, without fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Field crops may or may not be grown intentionally as an _____, and the remaining plant byproduct used as a fuel.

Agriculturally produced biomass fuels, such as _____, ethanol and bagasse can be burned in internal combustion engines or boilers.

The two most prominent areas for this in the United States are in the Yellowstone basin and in northern _____.

The theoretical potential indicates the amount of energy theoretically available for energy purposes, such as, in the case of _____, the amount of incoming radiation at the earth's surface.

Airflows can be used to run _____s.

This level of investment combined with continuing double digit percentage increases each year has moved what once was considered _____ to mainstream.

Recent developments with _____ production may improve yields even further.

It estimates that Iceland's geothermal energy could provide _____ MW for over _____ years, compared to the current production of _____ MW.

This trend is particularly visible in _____, California, Europe, Japan.

_____ is the name given to nine solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which were built in the 1980s.

Investment capital flowing into renewable energy climbed from $_____ billion in 2005 to a record $100 billion in 2006.

By the end of _____ worldwide use of geothermal energy for electricity had reached _____.3GWs, with an additional 28GW used directly for heating.

These engines generally require clean burning fuels, which are generally in liquid form, and to a lesser extent, compressed _____eous phase.

The California Solar Initiative offers cash incentives on solar PV systems of up to $_____ a watt.

_____, in Texas, is the world's largest wind farm at 735.5 MW capacity.

Successful reactors must close for refueling every _____ months for _____ days.

Three _____ MW trough plants were under construction in Spain at the end of _____ with _____ additional _____ MW plants planned.

2005 alone, boosting household income by $_____ billion.

Success in India's solar program has led to similar projects in other parts of developing world like _____, Morocco, Indonesia and Mexico.

Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, _____, hydroelectricity/micro hydro, biomass and biofuels for transportation.

In _____ the United Kingdom consumed _____ TWh of electric power, but had a heat requirement of _____ TWh, the majority of which was met using gas.

Of all U.S. nuclear plants built, _____ percent were abandoned and _____ percent have failed at least once.

These responses, however, do not account for the extremely high _____ and endemism of land used for ethanol crops, particularly sugar cane.

It uses submerged pipes as a _____ for climate control systems.

The Energy Policy Act of _____, which calls for _____.5 billion gallons of biofuels to be used annually by _____, will also help to expand the market.

Since _____ there has been renewed interest in solar thermal power stations and two plants were completed during 2006/2007: the _____ MW Nevada Solar One and the _____ MW PS10 solar power tower in Spain.

_____ is renewable and produces no greenhouse gases during operation, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

The London Array windfarm, _____ km off Kent and Essex, should eventually consist of _____ turbines, occupying an area of _____ km².

Wind power is growing at the rate of _____ percent annually, with a worldwide installed capacity of over _____ GW, and is widely used in several European countries and the United States.

about 18% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, such as wood-burning, in what year?

Its forms and sources include _____, the biogenic portion of municipal solid waste, or the unused portion of field crops.

The _____, located in the municipality of Moura, Portugal, is presently under construction and will have an installed capacity of 62 MWp.

The _____ megawatt plant covers and comprises _____ PV panels.

physicist Bernard Cohen proposed that uranium is effectively inexhaustible, and could therefore be considered a renewable source of energy, in what year?

With current technology, it is not ideally suited for use as a _____ fuel.

In developing countries, three _____ projects for integrated CSP/combined-cycle gas-turbine power plants in Egypt, Mexico, and Morocco were approved during 2006/2007.

It consists of _____ GE Energy _____.5 MW wind turbines and _____ Siemens _____.3 MW wind turbines.

Since wind speed is not constant, a _____'s annual energy production is never as much as the sum of the generator nameplate ratings multiplied by the total hours in a year.

Some very large corporations such as _____, General Electric, Sharp, and Royal Dutch Shell are investing in the renewable energy sector.

_____ is a biogas which has been upgraded to a quality similar to natural gas.

_____ miscanthus and burning it to generate electricity is being studied and may be economically viable.

_____ is being phased into the current energy infrastructure.

This is a comprehensive $_____ billion program.

Nuclear power production was also subsidised by this obligation from _____ until _____.

The first stage of construction should be finished in _____ and the second and final stage is scheduled for _____, making it one of the largest photovoltaic projects ever constructed.

The manufacturing output of the photovoltaics industry reached more than _____ MW in _____, and photovoltaic power stations are particularly popular in Germany.

Ultimately, this energy derives from heat in the _____'s core.

It also contributed about $_____ billion in tax revenues at the local, state, and federal levels.

Imposition of fossil fuel consumption and _____es, and channel the revenue earned towards renewable energy development.

Around low tide, the water in the basin is discharged through a _____.

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