5. What are the five forms of geothermal energy and which ones are used commerci

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5. What are the five forms of geothermal energy and which ones are used commercially?

9. What is "Hot Dry Rock"?

10. What is "Geopressured Brine"

16. A. How much of the world's electricity comes from hydropower?

B. How many people are supplied with hydroelectric power

17. What is hydroelectric power?

19. Worldwide, hydroelectric power plants have a combined capacity of _____a.______ megawatts and produce _____b._______ kilowatt hours of electricity annually. This is equivalent to ______c._____ barrels of oil.

20. Who is the world's leader in producing hydropower

21. What percent of energy used in the U.S. is hydropower?

26. What are the problems with using fossil fuels?

27. The Worlds requirement of fossil fuels double every ________ years.

28. What are the 3 most commonly used energy sources in the world today?

29. List 6 other sources of energy not used in question 28.

30. Give the percentages of commercial energy use for: A. petroleum, B. Coal, C. natural gas.

36. What is "Chemical Energy"?

37. What does "Energy Star" mean?

38. Do nuclear power plants produce:

A. sulfur and particulates and/or B. greenhouse gases?

39. Name 4 things that the use of nuclear energy help to do.

40. Go to http://www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html and do the demonstration on "Control The Nuclear Power Plant" (if still available). How did you do?

Explanation / Answer

5) Five forms of geothermal energy

Of these Hydrothermal fluids and Ambient ground heat are used commercially.

9) Hot Dry Rock are rocks which are hot ,dry and impervious crystal base rocks where most of the geothermal energy is available.

10) A reservoir of saline water which exists at extremely high pressure and has the capacity to give geothermal energy.

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