Focus on Sustainable Energy: Ages 11-14

Watch your words! What is “sustainable energy”? First of all, it is energy that is “renewable” (solar, wind,

geothermal

Describes the technology used to tap subsurface heat to produce energy. Low-temperature geoth...

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, etc.) – but that is only half the story. To be sustainable, an energy source must not exhaust natural resources, such as rare minerals, or rely on overly costly, hard-to-recycle equipment to generate

power

In physics, power is the amount of energy supplied by a system per unit time. In simpler term...

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. Put simply, close attention needs to be paid upstream and downstream, while avoiding waste at all costs.