Chapter+9

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= [|America Revealed - Electric Nation] = [|America Revealed on Amazon]

= [|Gas-mileage Rules Small Step Forward; Fall Short of What's Needed] = = [|U.S. Government Confirms Link Between Earthquakes and Hydraulic Fracturing] = = [|How Hydrogen Cars Work] = = [|The Apocalyptic Landscapes of Alberta’s Oil Sands] = = [|Tar Sands (from NRDC)] = = [|Community Solar Day: Occupy Rooftops] = media type="youtube" key="4UE5Pl4p2nY" width="560" height="315"

[|13-Year-Old Looks at Trees, Makes Solar Power Breakthrough] =Vocabulary:= 1. Direct and indirect solar energy 2. Nonsolar energy sources 3. Nonrenewable, renewable, and perpetual energy sources 4. Fuelwood 5. Energy and technology revolutions 6. Fossil fuels 7. Reserves (Fossil fuels) 8. Resource base 9. Surface mining 10. Gasification/ liquefaction 11. Reclamation 12. Acid precipitation 13. Sulfurous smog 14. Fuel oil 15. Gasoline 16. Production and reserves 17. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 18. Oil sands and bitumen 19. Oil shales and kerogen 20. Methane,butane, and propane 21. Nuclear fission 22. Types of reactors 23. Passive safety systems 24. Liquid and gaseous fuels 25. Methane recovery systems 26. Hydroelectric power 27. Wind power 28. Solar energy 29. Solar architecture 30. Solar-thermal electric technologies 31. Heliostats 32. Photovoltaic cells 33. Solar panels 34. Hydrogen fuel cells 35. Geothermal electric energy 36. Hydrothermal heat 37. Hydrogen energy economy 38. Energy conservation 39. Alternative fuel vehicles (AFV's) 40. Hybrid electron vehicles (HEV's) 41. Fuel cell vehicles (FCV's)

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