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OzoneAir PollutionWater Cycle DroughtFloods Acid RainWater Pollution

El NinoHurricaneTornadoTsunamiRecyclingInternational Space Station/ Future of Space TravelSpace/ShuttleProgram

VolcanoesEarthquakesLandslidesWild Fires

Coal MiningOil and GasHydrofracki

ngNuclear Power

Wind Power

Green AlternativesRecyclingSolar PowerFuel Cell VehiclesElectric VehiclesAlternative Fuel VehiclesHydropowerGeothermalBiomass

-Avalanches

-Buildings of the Future

-Environmental Disasters

Green Energy

1st Generation Technologies: 1800’s

GeothermalBiomassHydropower

Geothermal Energy -

-Heat generated and stored in the Earth (<1%)

The Geysers in the Mayacamas Mountains, California

Naturally-occurring steam fields

Video

Biological material from living, or recently living organisms that is converted into energy, like electricity. (4% in 2010).

Biomass

Energy Crops: Switchgrass

Corn Stalks

Sugarcane fields in Brazil

Sugarcane plant in Brazil,Producing electricity.

Clean Municipal and Industrial Wastes

methane can be captured from landfills

Biomass: Controversial? Whole tree harvesting(use the entire tree). Removes nutrients from the soil?

It’s goal : “Ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity."

International: 3 million members

Hydropower =Energy From Moving Water

6% of renewable energy in USA is Hydropower: #1

source!

Hoover Dam:1942

(Nevada)

Mt. Morris

3 Gorges Dam in China= World’s largest hydropower plant

Second-generation technologies:Started in the 1970’s (energy crisis).

Solar

Wind Power

Solar Power: Convert sunlight to electricity

Spain

CSP Systems: (Concentrating solar power)

Use lenses/mirrors to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam of sunlight. The heat is then converted to electricity.

Cresent Dunes project in Nevada:

power up to 75,000 homes

SEGS : 9 sites in Mojave Desert, California: World’s Largest CSP Solar facility

Photovoltaic Solar PowerA solar cell that converts

light into electricity(Germany)

video

Copper Mountain facility in Nevada

Wind Power: Electricity from moving air

Wind turbines in the ocean.

Wind Turbine: Switzerland

Roscoe Wind Farm, Texas = World’s largest (100,000 acres)

3rd generation technologies:

Ocean Current Energy

Fuel Cell Vehicles

Converts the chemical energy from a fuel (Hydrogen) into electricity.

Fuel Cell Bus: London, England

Fuel Cell Boat: Germany

Fuel Cell Car: Honeoye Falls(plant relocated to Michigan 2012)

Plug-in Hybrid (Prius)

$32,00095 mpg

$28,800 (2013)All electric

Nissan Leaf

The Leaf actually costs $21,300! The government gives REBATES to people who purchase this vehicle!

Welcome to Buy Green, Save Green NYS High-Efficiency Appliance Rebates!

If you are a resident of New York State, you can receive a cash rebate of $350 by purchasing an eligible CEE High Efficiency Tier 2 or 3 refrigerator, or $250 by purchasing an eligible CEE High Efficiency Tier 2 or 3 clothes washer!

Purchases must be made on or after March 19, 2012.

$3.5 million in rebates were offered.This money disappeared in 2 days!

Qualifying factors — Exterior windows and doors must have a U factor and SHGC equal to or less than 0.30.ENERGY STAR products qualify for this credit.Credit amount — Exterior windows and skylights, storm windows, exterior doors

and storm doors: 30% of cost: 2009