Energy Final

According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency’s 2025 Energy Outlook, use of this fossil fuel actually increased by 18% last year, despite climate change concerns:

Coal

These are the most efficient walkers in the world, able to transfer 80% of their momentum into forward motion:

African Women

Buffy the Vampire Slayer understands tropic energy levels in an ecosystem - How many vampires at most will she expect to find in pleasantville:

100

The US imports 8.5 million barrels of oil per day from about 80 countries - which country is the largest current supplier

Canada

Which of the following is a simple machine designed to improve human energy efficiency:

Back in 1850, the primary energy source in the US was

wood

Which of the following is NOT considered a factor of production in conventional economics

energy

This is a major reason to have a wind mill rather than a water wheel in a northern latitude

winter

This state has the highest electric rates in the US (37+ cents/kilowatt) due to its dependence upon imported petroleum for its power plants.

hawaii

Molinology is the study of what?

mechanical mills

The US has been a net energy exporter since 2019 - which of the following does the US export:

all of the above

The largest source of renewable energy in the US (32% of all renewables - or about 3% of overall energy) is what?

biofuels

A perpetual motion machine cant exist because of entropy, stipulated in the second law of what?

thermodynamics

A century ago the US had an estimated 6 million wind turbines that were doing what?

pumping water

One of the primary challenges in economics is how to get the market price to reflect the true cost of a good or service. Which of the following strategies is used to help get the market price?

all of the above

Just over a dozen out of 148 mammals have bene domesticated by humans of the course of history - one of the most recvent ones (tamed 5000 years ago) being?

raindeer

Through this natural process, plants capture kinetic (radient) energy from the sun and turn it into a form of potential (chemical) energy?

photosynthesis

The goal of economics is to maximize happiness (utility) for as many people as possible - but happiness cant be quantified, so economics transforms utility into what that can be measured

price

Horses can carry 250# adn walk 30 miles per day, compared to people, who can carry about #50 on their back or head and normally walk how many miles in one day

20

Which o fth efollowing enrgy sources are largely free if you can figure out how to capture it

sunlight, wind, gravity, all of the above

You just got an order for 1 ton of charcoal to be delivered to the blacksmith net month about how many tons of firewood will you need to make that

4 tons

which of the following is considered a negative externality in economics?

all of the above

When energy is used ot transform, move, and/or change the temperature of something, this is called what?

work

This widely used unit of energy is equivalent to raising the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius

calorie

The early polynesian settlers on easeter island were able to move their large stone heads moia, weighing up to 80 tons as far as eight miles in what way?

walking them with ropes

Nearly 100% of this energy source in the US is devoted to making electricity

nuclear

The economic concept that the winners will pay off the losers in order to maximize utility aka happiness called"

pareto optimallity

Which of the following is not a form of kinetic energy

methane

Petroleum supplies nearly 90% of the energy demand for which us sector?

transportation

Economics comes from the ancient greek work "oikonomia" which means:

household management

This clever form of transportation often uses the weight of water to move people and cargo up and down a slope

funicular

A recent ICE roundup and deportation of hundreds of workers from an electric vehicle battery complex in Georgia soured US relations with which ally?

south korea

According to the 1964 Wilderness Act, Which of these activities is NOT allowed on federal lands designated as wilderness:

all of the above

This version of baby coal has the least amount of energy since it is about 90% water and only 5% carbon:

peat

The 1997 Kyoto protocol was the first global climate chagne deal to set a cap on greenhouse gas ghg emissions. This deal also lead to what?

carbon trading markets

Which of the following cities will end up under water with a five food sea level rise"

all of the above

The mining of yellow cake to be refined into uranium for nuclear plants has led to high cancer rates among which US indigenous community?

Navajo

Climate change is already leading to the force relocation of people - for eample, the US GOVT spent $48 million to move the 100 residents of Isle de Juan Charles becasue rising sea levels flooded their community. Where is this happening?

Louisiana

The Dakota Access Pipeline DAPL is transferring what?

Crude Oil

According to this countries constitution, every citizen has the right to enjoy an environement that is not harmful to their health and wellbeing, yet many poor people there are not suffering the impacts of living next to 400+ abandoned coalmines:

South Africa

This is NOT a mjaor source of carbon doide emissions:

Rice Paddies

At a pH level of 4.5 fish will die - this is because of too much what is in the water?

Hydrogen Ions

This is the largest carbon sink on earth:

ocean

As shown in the movie, awake, private security forces and government policing agencies used which of the following against indigenous water protectors at Standing Rock, ND during the DAPL protest?

all of the above

Each 1 degree C increase in global temperature could trigger a 20-30% hike in methane (CH4) due to:

permafrost melting

THe petrollium industry is devided into three integrated levels - upstream, midstream, and downstream. Which of the following would be at the upstream level?

Mexican oil field

The sun gets its energy how?

nuclear fision

France currently getse 75% of its electricity from which source?

nuclear

The major source of toxic mercury in fish is what?

coal burning

This 200+ million gallon oil spill in 2010 led to a massive ecological disaster in the gulf of mexica and a 65 million gallon oil spill in 2010 that led to amassive ecological disasater in the Gulf of Mexico and a 65 billion clean up attemtpt which was only moderatly successful:

BP Deepwater Horizon

Acid rain now fallin in parts of china has a ph of 3 - this is equal to having what poured on your head?

beer

The japanese government recently survayed children growing up near Fukushima and found much higher rates of thyroid cancer due to exposure to what radioactive isotope?

Iodine131

Dairyland power co-op in la crosse is now charging electricity consumers 3 million per year for what?

Guarding nuclear waste

This canadian company owns 4700 miles of pipelines across Norht America and is now trying ot upgrade line 3 across norhtern WI, but is facing opposition from the Bad River tribe and its allies:

Enbridge

This greenhouse gas is 80x worse than carbon dioxide when it comes to climate change impact:

methane

The US has now spent 10 billion on a five mile long tunnel for high level nuclear waste storage where?

yucca mountian

Thanks to the 1957 Price anderson act, this energy sector enjoys tapayer subsidized limited liability insurance to help cover any disaster

nuclear

Since 1900 over 100,000 people have been killed in the US doing what to produce energy

mining coal

Currently there are only 2 nuclear power plants in africa - both in south africa. Russia is now building a massive nuclear facility in which african country:

egypt

How many tons of tarsand needs to be exxtracted and cooked in order to obtain one barrel of oil?

two

You come across 80bls of CS 137 wiht a half life of 30 years. HOw muhc radioactive Cesium will be left after 120 years?

5lbs

Your familys 100' deep well is now dry becaseu the frackl sadn mine nexxt door has a much deeper 250' well and is pumping out a lot of water to try to keep their pit operational. What would explain this?

cone of depression

The enriched uraniunm used in the manhattan project to develop the US atomic bombs dropped on japan in 1945 came from where?

Congo

In Dec 2009 a college economics student, Tim DeChristopher impersonated an oil/gas agent at a federal auction, buying up 1.7 million worth of drilling rights on 23,000 acres of public land in which state?

Utah

One of the largest offshore wind farms, consisting of 175 thurbines generating 630 MW is found where

Thames Estuary

PV cells turn what into electricity

sun light

One of the potential drawbakcs of extracting too much geothermal energy is what?

all of the above

Storing surplus electricity for later use is a huge challenge for energy engineers. Which of the following strategies could do this?

all of the above

Which Wisconsin-based corporation can now supply about 85% of the electricity demand at its current headquarters, thanks to 6 wind turbines and 6200 solar panels?

epic systems

When there is only one seller in a marketplace it is called:

monopoly

Ineffective recycling of glass and metal leads to what problem for pwoer plants burnign refuse derived fuel RDF?

slag buildup

One of the largest solar power plants in the world uses 170000 heliostats to focus solar energy on three elevated water boilers - where is this located

Mojave desert

This is an example of a passive solar system

all of the above

You have a 240 watt lightbulb and a 120 volt power supply - how many amps will you need to get your light to work properly?

2

Samuel Ensell was one of the first power tycoons to energy in Chicago in the 1920s - what strategy did he use to help guarantee his monopoly?

all of the above

Geothermal energy provides much of the energy for which capital city?

Rejkavik Iceland

THe first largescale DC hydroeletcric plant was built where in 1882?

Appleton WI

You are on the board of a rural electric cooperative. Which of the following is illegal for you to do.

make a profit

As shown in the movie Emron, power traders in cali were able to manipulate supply in order to charge $1000 for electricity that normally sells for 40-50 per megawatt. This is an example of what?

arbitrage

On a good day the Orkney Islands off of SCotland can generate 120% of their need for electricity - what do they do with the surplus?

make hydrogen

Who is in charge of enforcing anti-trust laws and regulation monopoly power in the US?

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Electricity is af orm of what type of energy?

kinetic

Economics describe a certain essential goods or services as natural monopolies, and these are often strongly relgualted or provided directly by the government. Which of the following is NOT a natural monopoly?

car insurance

Adding this to your photovoltaic array could increase electricity production by as much as 20% in winter and 50% in summer:

solar tracker

When it comes to electricity, it is actually not the volts that kills you but the amps. Which of the following is themost lethal? (300000+ amps)

lightning

The Bay front power plant in ashland wi owned by xcel energy uses what type of fuel?

waste wood

IN order to have electricity, you need to get electrons to flow easily. Which one of these materials would be best for conduction electricity?

copper

Enron made so much money off the electricity market in CA by taking advantage of the sudden supply shocks thanks to what?

all of the above

The amount of pressure behind electric current is measured in?

volts

The rural electrification act of 1933 part of FDRs new deal lead to what?

all of the above

Which tribal community builts its own solar power microgrid which probed to be a lifesaver for the surrounding area when a 2016 wind storm took down the one high boltage powerline serbing much of northern WI:

bad river

In denmark dead wind turbine blades are no longer doomed to go to a landfill- some are now being repurpoesd for what?

bike shelters

Over 25% of homes in australlia have this on thier rooftop:

solar water heater

Alternating current AC electricity systems require a return path for electrons - what i sused to this this? (sometimes leading to stray voltage)

ground

V2G stands for

Vehicle to grid

The great ac/dc debate involved

Tesla vs Edison

You live in the northern hemisphere and want to reduce the need for AC in the summer - what should you have on the south side of your home?

deciduous trees

WHich country had 3000+ community-based microhydro plants, helping to ensure that nearly 80% of its rural population has access to electricity?

Nepal

During wwii victory gardens provided how much of US produce?

40%

Ethanol can be produced from a variety of sources, which of the following is not one of those

soybeans