Energy Jeopardy

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Energy Jeopardy

NEED’s version of the popular television trivia game reviews and reinforces a variety of energy topics, including the science of energy, sources of energy, energy efficiency and conservation, electricity, transportation fuels, and energy careers.

Teacher Advisor y Board

Constance Beatty Kankakee, IL

La’Shree Branch Highland, IN

Jim M. Brown Saratoga Springs, NY

Mark Case Randleman, NC

Lisa Cephas Philadelphia, PA

Nina Corley Galveston, TX

Samantha Danielli Vienna, VA

Shannon Donovan Greene, RI

Michelle Garlick Long Grove, IL

Michelle Gay Daphne, AL

Nancy Gi ord Harwich, MA

Erin Gockel Farmington, NM

Robert Griegoliet Naperville, IL

DaNel Hogan Tucson, AZ

Greg Holman Paradise, CA

Barbara Lazar Albuquerque, NM

Robert Lazar Albuquerque, NM

Melissa McDonald Gaithersburg, MD

Paula Miller Philadelphia, PA

Hallie Mills St. Peters, MO

Jennifer MitchellWinterbottom Pottstown, PA

Monette Mottenon Montgomery, AL

Mollie Mukhamedov Port St. Lucie, FL

Cori Nelson Win eld, IL

Don Pruett Jr. Puyallup, WA

Judy Reeves Lake Charles, LA

Libby Robertson Chicago, IL

Amy Schott Raleigh, NC

Tom Spencer Chesapeake, VA

Jennifer Trochez MacLean Los Angeles, CA

Wayne Yonkelowitz Fayetteville, WV

NEED Mission Statement

The mission of The NEED Project is to promote an energy conscious and educated society by creating effective networks of students, educators, business, government and community leaders to design and deliver objective, multi-sided energy education programs.

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Teacher Advisory Board

In support of NEED, the national Teacher Advisory Board (TAB) is dedicated to developing and promoting standardsbased energy curriculum and training.

Energy Data Used in NEED Materials

NEED believes in providing teachers and students with the most recently reported, available, and accurate energy data. Most statistics and data contained within this guide are derived from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Data is compiled and updated annually where available. Where annual updates are not available, the most current, complete data year available at the time of updates is accessed and printed in NEED materials. To further research energy data, visit the EIA website at www.eia.gov

Standards Correlation Information

www.NEED.org/educators/curriculum-correlations/

Next Generation Science Standards

ƒ This guide effectively supports many Next Generation Science Standards. This material can satisfy performance expectations, science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and cross cutting concepts within your required curriculum. For more details on these correlations, please visit NEED’s curriculum correlations website.

Common Core State Standards

ƒ This guide has been correlated to the Common Core State Standards in both language arts and mathematics. These correlations are broken down by grade level and guide title, and can be downloaded as a spreadsheet from the NEED curriculum correlations website.

Individual State Science Standards

ƒ This guide has been correlated to each state’s individual science standards. These correlations are broken down by grade level and guide title, and can be downloaded as a spreadsheet from the NEED website.

Teacher Guide e

&Background

Energy Jeopardy is designed like the popular television trivia game show using energy as the theme. Two versions of the game are available to download in a PowerPoint file, one covering general energy topics and one focusing on sources of energy used in the United States. Each game has a Jeopardy and a Double Jeopardy round. Game categories and clues are provided, however, you can swap these for your own answer clues/questions as needed. The file includes a set of Final Jeopardy categories, too. You will choose which one to use during your game. During this activity, all students have an opportunity to discuss and answer each clue, allowing everyone to benefit from the review and learning this game provides.

Objectives

ƒ Students will use critical thinking to answer energy related questions.

Materials

ƒ Energy Jeopardy PowerPoint file downloaded and saved on your computer

ƒ 1 Scorecard per team (for the specific rounds you are playing)

ƒ 1 Answers & Questions reference sheet (for the specific rounds you are playing)

ƒ 1 Dry erase board per team

ƒ 1 Dry erase marker per team

ƒ 1 Dry eraser per team

ƒ 1 Calculator per team

ƒ Buzzers or noisemakers (optional)

2Preparation

ƒ Download the Energy Jeopardy PowerPoint file from https://www.need.org/resources/ powerpoint-presentations/ and save it to your computer.

ƒ Preview the game and familiarize yourself with how the slides work. Review the hints for working with the PowerPoint file in the box on the bottom of page 6. Choose which game you want to play, General Energy or Sources of Energy. Both games include a Jeopardy and a Double Jeopardy round. Also, choose the Final Jeopardy category you want to use.

ƒ Print the Jeopardy Answers & Questions, the Double Jeopardy Answers & Questions, and the Final Jeopardy, Categories, Answers, & Questions for the specific rounds you will play. These sheets are the host’s reference during the game, listing the dollar amounts, clues, and questions for every category. Print the reference sheets from this teacher guide or from slides in the PowerPoint file.

ƒ Print one Scorecard (for the specific rounds you are playing) for each of the teams.

ƒ Decide if you will be the game show host and read the clues and correct responses or have a student leader host while you monitor the game or act as scorekeeper.

ƒ Gather materials listed above.

Procedure

1. Divide the class into several teams.

2. Have each team choose a scorekeeper. The scorekeeper keeps track of the team’s game using a scorecard and tallies the total score at the end of each round. Give each scorekeeper a scorecard.

3. Have each team choose a spokesperson. The spokesperson buzzes in (optional), writes down the team’s response, and stands to speak for the team. Give each spokesperson a dry erase board and marker.

Grade Levels

ƒ Elementary, grades 3-5

ƒ Intermediate, grades 6-8

ƒ Secondary, grades 9-12

Time

One to two 45 minute class periods.

4. Explain how to play Jeopardy:

ƒ A category and dollar amount are selected from the game board. The host reveals the answer clue and reads it out loud. All teams have twenty seconds to quietly discuss their response, phrased as a question. Every team can try to answer the question if they want to.

ƒ The spokesperson should stand when they finish writing down the team’s response. Keep the board hidden.

ƒ Everyone standing will reveal their board at the same time, and the correct response will be confirmed by the game host.

ƒ If your response is correct, the scorekeeper circles the positive dollar amount on the scorecard for that clue.

ƒ If your response is incorrect, the scorekeeper circles the negative dollar amount on the scorecard for that clue.

ƒ If your team does not know the correct response to a clue you do not have to guess. The spokesperson can remain sitting. The team does not lose or gain any points. The scorekeeper circles the $0 on the scorecard for that clue.

ƒ The spokesperson who stood up first and gave a correct response will receive control of the board. This team chooses the next category and dollar amount.

5. Play through the Jeopardy round of your choice.

6. Play through the Double Jeopardy round affiliated with your Jeopardy round. Before Final Jeopardy, scorekeepers should tally their team’s total score. At this point, you may want to collect and review team scorecards for accuracy and write down each team’s total on a piece of paper (to simplify declaring the winner).

7. When it is time for Final Jeopardy, explain that any teams with points remaining can place a wager, assigning their own point value for the category select and reveal the Final Jeopardy Category of your choice and give teams twenty seconds to secretly make their wagers. The scorekeeper should write the wager on the scorecard. You should record teams’ wagers on your piece of paper, too.

8. Remind teams to make their Final Jeopardy response in the form of a question. Reveal and read the Final Jeopardy answer slide. Give teams 30 seconds to write a response.

9. Start with the team with the lowest score. Determine if their response is correct or not and have the team reveal their wager. (Add or subtract the team’s wager on your piece of paper and tally their final score.) Scorekeepers should add or subtract their team’s wager amount using the scorecard and tally their final score.

10. Continue until all teams have shared their Final Jeopardy response and you’ve tallied all teams’ final scores. Declare a winner.

Tips for Using NEED’s Energy Jeopardy PowerPoint File

ƒ Download the PowerPoint file from www.need.org/ resources/powerpoint-presentations/. Save it to your computer.

ƒ Click the links to go between slides.

ƒ On the first slide, click either “General Energy” or “Sources of Energy” to link to the game board. Once on the gameboard, click in the margins to start Jeopardy theme song.

ƒ Click the NEED logo to return to the game board at any time.

ƒ There are short cuts available on the game board for each round:

ƒ “Dollar amount ($)” links to the corresponding slide with the answer clue. Once you’re finished with the responses and scoring for that clue, click on the NEED logo to return to the game board. Once that link has been viewed, the color of the link will change from blue to yellow.

ƒ “Answers/Questions” links to the list of Answers and Questions for the round. We suggest printing a copy of the Answers and Questions for the rounds you will play.

ƒ “Double Jeopardy” goes to the game board for the Double Jeopardy round. Click this when you are ready to start Double Jeopardy.

ƒ “Final Jeopardy” links to a list of all Final Jeopardy categories. Click on the category you are playing to reveal the category name before making final wagers. When you are ready to start Final Jeopardy, click on the NEED logo to link to your clue reveal slide.

ƒ To restart the game and refresh all categories, close without saving and re-open.

ƒ The file can be edited with other answers and questions of your choice as needed.

Sources of Energy Double Jeopardy Scorecard

General Energy Jeopardy ANSWERS

& QUESTIONS

ENERGY INITIALS

$200 MPG

What is miles per gallon?

$400 EV

What is electric vehicle?

$600 kWh

What is kilowatt-hour?

$800 PV

What is photovoltaic?

$1000 Btu

What is British thermal unit?

FORMS OF ENERGY

$200 The energy of motion

What is kinetic energy?

$400 Energy in batteries is stored as this form

What is chemical energy?

$600 Electromagnetic energy that travels in waves such as light, x-rays, and microwaves

What is radiant energy?

$800 Energy stored in an object when force is applied, when stretched or compressed

What is elastic energy?

$1000 Energy of place or position

What is gravitational potential energy?

LEADING STATES

$200 This U.S. state produces the most petroleum What is Texas?

$400 Residents in this U.S. state pay the most for electricity What is Hawaii?

$600 This U.S. state is home to our largest hydropower facility, the Grand Coulee hydro dam

What is Washington?

$800 This U.S. state produces the most coal What is Wyoming?

$1000 This U.S. state uses the most energy, generates the most electricity, and produces the most carbon dioxide emissions

What is Texas?

TRANSPORTATION FUELS

$200 Fuel used by hardworking trucks, buses, and construction vehicles

What is diesel?

$400 Fuel made from corn, mixed into gasoline to lower emissions

What is ethanol?

$600 Fuel made from soybean oil, animal fats, and used grease

What is biodiesel?

$800 Clean-burning fossil fuel used by indoor vehicles

What is propane?

$1000 Fuel made by natural gas steam reforming or electrolysis of water

What is hydrogen?

SAVING ENERGY

$200 Two or more people traveling to work together

What is a carpool?

$400 A small appliance that uses less energy to cook food than an oven

What is a microwave, toaster oven, or air fryer? (accept any)

$600 Second largest energy consumer in homes, after space heating and cooling

What is water heating?

$800 Two items that seal cracks around windows and doors

What are caulking and weather-stripping?

$1000 Changing a behavior or an action to use less energy

What is energy conservation?

FAMOUS AMERICANS

$200 He invented the light bulb

Who was Thomas Edison?

$400 His motorized vehicle created a demand for gasoline

Who was Henry Ford?

$600 They were leaders in early motorized flight

Who were the Wright Brothers?

$800 This German-born American is known for the equation E=MC2

Who was Albert Einstein?

$1000 He invented the steamboat

Who was Robert Fulton?

General Energy Double Jeopardy ANSWERS

& QUESTIONS

CHEMICAL FORMULAS

$400 H2O

What is water?

$800 O2

What is oxygen?

$1200 CO2

What is carbon dioxide?

$1600 CH4

What is methane?

$2000 C3H8

What is propane?

SCIENCE OF ENERGY

$400 A reaction that absorbs thermal energy

What is an endothermic reaction?

$800 A reaction that gives off thermal energy

What is an exothermic reaction?

$1200 Molecules in this state have a definite volume but an indefinite shape

What is a liquid?

$1600 A device that changes motion energy into electricity

What is a generator?

$2000 When thermal energy travels through solids

What is conduction?

LEADING NATIONS

$400 Country that consumes the most energy?

What is China?

$800 Country supplying the U.S. with the most imported barrels of crude oil

What is Canada?

$1200 Country that produces the most natural gas

What is the United States?

$1600 Country that produces the most renewable energy?

What is China?

$2000 Country that releases the most carbon dioxide emissions

What is China?

ELECTRICITY

$400 Place where electricity is generated

What is a power plant?

$800 A continuous, closed path or loop allowing electricity to flow

What is a circuit?

$1200 Power lines that move larger amounts of power at a high voltage, usually over long distances

What are transmission lines?

$1600 The measure of how much electricity is used by your home

What is kilowatt-hour?

$2000 Electrons jumping from one object to another

What is static electricity?

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

$400 Clean the lint filter after every load to improve air circulation and increase the efficiency of this appliance

What is a dryer?

$800 A Wi-Fi enabled device that automatically adjusts heating and cooling temperature settings in your home for optimal performance

What is a smart thermostat?

$1200 Energy saving light bulb that generates light through the use of a semiconductor

What is a light emitting diode (LED)?

$1600 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gives this blue label (a symbol for energy efficiency) to products that help you save energy

What is the ENERGY STAR® label?

$2000 The most fuel-efficient vehicles use this transportation fuel

What is electricity?

ENERGY CAREERS

$400 This person uses high heat to fuse pieces of metal together, to build skyscrapers, bridges, and pipelines

What is a welder?

$800 This person installs, inspects, maintains, operates, and repairs wind turbines

What is a wind turbine technician?

$1200 This person searches for coal while studying rock and earth layer data, tests rock samples, tells miners where to dig, and plans for land use after mining

What is a geologist?

$1600 This person assembles, mounts, maintains, and repairs solar arrays and associated electrical equipment

What is a solar installer?

$2000 This person runs, maintains, monitors, and adjusts equipment (boilers, turbines, pumps) and controls needed to generate electricity or stop generating electricity

What is a power plant operator?

Sources of Energy Jeopardy ANSWERS

& QUESTIONS

BIOMASS

$200 For thousands of years, people have burned this type of biomass to heat their homes and cook their food

What is wood?

$400 During this process, plants convert radiant energy from the sun into chemical energy in the form of glucose

What is photosynthesis?

$600 This source of biomass is burned in a waste-to-energy power plant, generating electricity

What is garbage?

$800 This sector of the economy is the largest consumer of biomass for energy

What is the industrial sector?

$1000 The most manufactured and consumed biofuel in America

What is ethanol?

COAL

$200 The major use of coal

What is generating electricity?

$400 World leader of known reserves

What is the United States?

$600 The method for transporting most coal

What are trains?

$800 Two-thirds of U.S. coal is mined by this method

What is surface mining?

$1000 The oldest type of coal with the highest energy content

What is anthracite coal?

HYDROPOWER

$200 Meaning of the prefix hydro

What is water?

$400 This process describes the movement of water between the Earth and the atmosphere

What is the water cycle?

$600 The area of storage behind a dam

What is a reservoir?

$800 Rushing water spins the blades of this device to power a generator

What is a turbine?

$1000 This U.S. state produces the most hydropower

What is Washington?

PETROLEUM

$200 The major use of petroleum

What is transportation?

$400 Place where crude oil is processed, cleaned and separated into different fuels and products

What is a refinery?

$600 Almost half of all petroleum is refined into this product

What is gasoline?

$800 The number of gallons in a barrel of crude oil

What is forty-two?

$1000 Petroleum used by industry as a raw material, to produce energy, plastics, and many other products

What is a feedstock?

WIND

$200 A cluster of wind turbines producing electricity

What is a wind farm (or wind power plant)?

$400 Device that measures wind speed

What is an anemometer (or wind gauge)?

$600 U.S. state that produces the largest amount of wind energy

What is Texas?

$800 Area off the coast of major lakes and oceans where the wind blows strong and steady

What is offshore?

$1000 Form of energy captured by wind turbine blades

What is kinetic energy?

GENERATING ELECTRICITY

$200 Main source of energy for U.S. electricity generation

What is natural gas?

$400 U.S. state generating the most electricity from geothermal resources

What is California?

$600 Device that converts radiant energy into electricity

What is a photovoltaic (PV) cell?

$800 The renewable source of energy that generates the most electricity in the U.S.

What is wind?

$1000 The main use of electricity in homes

What is air-conditioning?

Sources of Energy Double Jeopardy ANSWERS

& QUESTIONS

GEOTHERMAL

$400 The Greek word for heat

What is therme?

$800 The outermost layer of the Earth

What is the crust?

$1200 Most geothermal resources are found deep underground, but this feature is visible on Earth’s surface

What is a volcano, hot spring, geyser, or fumarole? (accept any)

$1600 Area around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s geothermal activity occurs

What is the Ring of Fire?

$2000 Device that uses the Earth’s constant temperature to heat and cool a building

What is a geothermal exchange unit?

NATURAL GAS

$400 The major use of natural gas in homes

What is heating?

$800 The main ingredient in natural gas

What is methane?

$1200 The main method for transporting natural gas

What is by pipeline?

$1600 U.S. state that produces the most natural gas

What is Texas?

$2000 Natural gas is measured by this unit

What is the cubic foot?

PROPANE

$400 Under normal conditions, propane is a gas. Under pressure, it becomes this

What is a liquid?

$800 Main user of propane

What is industry?

$1200 Location of homes and farms using propane for heating, hot water, cooking, drying crops, and powering tractors

What is a rural area?

$1600 Most propane comes from raw natural gas, separated from methane at this industrial processing plant

What is a natural gas processing plant?

$2000 American scientist who discovered propane in 1912

Who is Dr. Walter Snelling?

SOLAR

$400 The sun’s energy is produced in this process

What is nuclear fusion?

$800 The sun’s energy reaches the Earth in this form

What is radiant energy?

$1200 Time it takes light to travel from the sun to the Earth

What is eight minutes?

$1600 A device that converts radiant energy into heat

What is a solar collector?

$2000 Smallest “packet“ of radiant energy

What are photons?

URANIUM

$400 The major use of uranium today

What is electricity generation?

$800 Process where nuclei split to produce energy

What is fission?

$1200 The part of the power plant where the nuclear reaction takes place

What is the reactor?

$1600 The isotope of uranium that is split in a nuclear power plant

What is U-235?

$2000 This particle causes fission when it strikes an atom of U-235

What is a neutron?

HYDROGEN

$400 This process occurs inside the sun, when hydrogen atoms combine to form helium atoms

What is fusion?

$800 The major use of hydrogen

What is industry?

$1200 Since hydrogen gas doesn’t exist naturally on Earth, but must be extracted from other sources of energy, it’s not a primary source of energy, but this

What is a secondary source of energy?

$1600 Most common way to manufacture hydrogen, usually at an industrial facility or refinery

What is (natural gas) steam reforming?

$2000 Vehicle powered by hydrogen

What is a fuel cell electric vehicle? (or space shuttle)

Final Jeopardy Categories, Answers, & Questions

ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The major greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels

What is carbon dioxide (CO2 )?

FORMS OF ENERGY

The movement of energy through substances in longitudinal waves

What is sound energy?

BOTANY AND ENERGY

Chlorophyll in plants uses sunlight to produce chemical energy from water and carbon dioxide in this process

What is photosynthesis?

ENERGY MEASUREMENT

By definition, the amount of energy that can raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit

What is a British thermal unit or Btu?

ENERGY HISTORY

This power plant started operation in New York in 1895 transporting electricity long distance to the city of Buffalo

What is Niagara Falls?

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Other than Antarctica, this continent uses the least amount of energy

What is Australia?

ENERGY STORAGE

A hydropower plant that pumps water between reservoirs at different elevations when electricity demand is low, then releases the water to generate electricity when demand is high

What is a pumped storage facility?

ELECTRICITY GENERATION

A period during the day when many consumers want electricity at the same time, which may require utilities to generate additional electricity to meet demand

What is peak demand?

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

The length of time a person must use a more expensive, energy efficient appliance before it begins to save money in excess of the initial cost difference

What is the payback period?

ENERGY SAFETY

Since natural gas is colorless and odorless, this chemical is added as a safety device, giving natural gas a rotten egg smell in case a leak occurs

What is mercaptan?

SOURCES OF ENERGY

Term for a secondary source of energy, like hydrogen or electricity, that can move energy from one place to another

What is an energy carrier?

ENERGY POLICY

The concept that every generation should meet its energy needs without compromising the energy needs of future generations

What is energy sustainability?

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BIOMASS AT A GLANCE

WHAT IS BIOMASS? TYPES OF BIOMASS

Biomassisanyorganicmatter—wood,crops,seaweed,animalwastes—that canbeusedasanenergysource.Biomassisprobablyouroldestsourceof energyafterthesun.Forthousandsofyears,peoplehaveburnedwoodtoheat their

and

Biomassgetsitsenergyfromthesun.Allorganicmattercontainsstoredenergy fromthesun.Duringaprocesscalledphotosynthesis,sunlightgivesplantsthe energytheyneedtoconvertwaterandcarbondioxideintooxygenandsugars. Thesesugars,calledcarbohydrates,supplyplantsandtheanimalsthateat plantswithenergy.Foodsrichincarbohydratesareagoodsourceofenergyfor thehumanbody. Biomassisarenewableenergysourcebecauseitssuppliesarenotlimited.We canalwaysgrowtreesandcrops,andwastewillalwaysexist.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Intheprocessofphotosynthesis,plantsconvertradiantenergyfromthe sunintochemicalenergyintheformofglucose(orsugar)

Weusefourtypesofbiomasstoday—woodandagriculturalproducts,solidwaste,land

andalcoholfuels(likeEthanolorBiodiesel).

Mostbiomassusedtodayishomegrownenergy.Wood—logs,chips,bark,and sawdust—accountsforjustunderhalfofbiomassenergy.Butanyorganicmattercan producebiomassenergy.Otherbiomasssourcescanincludeagriculturalwasteproducts likefruitpitsandcorncobs. Woodandwoodwasteareusedtogenerateelectricity.Muchoftheelectricityisusedby theindustriesmakingthewaste;itisnotdistributedbyutilities,itisaprocesscalled cogeneration.Papermillsandsawmillsusemuchoftheirwasteproductstogenerate steamandelectricityfortheiruse.However,sincetheyusesomuchenergy,theyneedto buyadditionalelectricityfromutilities.

Burningtrashturnswasteintoausableformofenergy.Oneton(2,000pounds)of garbagecontainsaboutasmuchheatenergyas500poundsofcoal.Garbageisnotall biomass;perhapshalfofitsenergycontentcomesfromplastics,whicharemadefrom petroleumandnaturalgas.Powerplantsthatburngarbageforenergyarecalled waste-to-energyplants.Theseplantsgenerateelectricitymuchascoal- redplantsdo, exceptthatcombustiblegarbage—notcoal—isthefuelusedto retheirboilers.

Bacteriaandfungiarenotpickyeaters.Theyeatdeadplantsandanimals,causingthem torotordecay.Afungusonarottinglogisconvertingcellulosetosugarstofeeditself. Althoughthisprocessisslowedinaland ll,asubstancecalledmethanegasisstillproducedasthewastedecays.Newregulationsrequireland llstocollectmethanegas forsafetyandenvironmentalreasons.Methanegasiscolorlessandodorless,butitisnot harmless.Thegascancause resorexplosionsifitseepsintonearbyhomesandis ignited.Land llscancollectthemethanegas,purifyit,anduseitasfuel.Methanecan alsobeproducedusingenergyfromagriculturalandhumanwastes.Biogasdigestersare airtightcontainersorpitslinedwithsteelorbricks.Wasteputintothecontainersis fermentedwithoutoxygentoproduceamethane-richgas.Thisgascanbeusedto produceelectricity,orforcookingandlighting.

Ethanolisanalcoholfuel(ethylalcohol)madebyfermentingthesugarsandstarchesfound inplantsandthendistillingthem.Anyorganicmaterialcontainingcellulose,starch,orsugar canbemadeintoethanol.ThemajorityoftheethanolproducedintheUnitedStatescomes fromcorn.Newtechnologiesareproducingethanolfromcelluloseinwoody bersfrom trees,grasses,andcropresidues. TodaynearlyallofthegasolinesoldintheU.S.containsaround10percentethanolandis knownasE10.In2011,theU.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA)approvedthe introductionofE15(15percentethanol,85percentgasoline)foruseinpassengervehicles frommodelyear2001andnewer.Fuelcontaining85percentethanoland15percent gasoline(E85)quali esasanalternativefuel.Thereareabout20million exiblefuel vehicles(FFV)ontheroadthatcanrune cientlyonE85orE10.However,asmall percentageofthesevehiclesuseE85regularly.

Biodieselisafuelmadebychemicallyreactingalcoholwithvegetableoils,animalfats,or greases,suchasrecycledrestaurantgrease.Mostbiodieseltodayismadefromsoybeanoil. Biodieselismostoftenblendedwithpetroleumdieselinratiosoftwopercent(B2), ve percent(B5),or20percent(B20).Itcanalsobeusedasneat(pure)biodiesel(B100). Biodieselfuelsarecompatiblewithandcanbeusedinunmodi eddieselengineswiththe existingfuelinginfrastructure.ItisoneofthefastestgrowingtransportationfuelsintheU.S. Biodieselcontainsvirtuallynosulfur,soitcanreducesulfurlevelsinthenation’sdieselfuel supply,evencomparedwithtoday’slowsulfurfuels.Whileremovingsulfurfrom petroleum-baseddieselresultsinpoorlubrication,biodieselisasuperiorlubricantandcan reducethefrictionofdieselfuelinblendsofonlyoneortwopercent.Thisisanimportant characteristicbecausetheEnvironmentalProtectionAgencynowrequiresthatsulfurlevels indieselfuelbe97percentlowerthantheywerepriorto2006.

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WOOD AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
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LUMA

Marshall University

Mercedes Benz USA

Minneapolis Public Schools

Mississippi Development Authority–Energy Division

Motus Experiential

National Fuel

National Grid

National Hydropower Association

National Ocean Industries Association

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NC Green Power

Nebraskans for Solar

NextEra Energy Resources

Nicor Gas

NCi – Northeast Construction

North Shore Gas

O shore Technology Conference

Ohio Energy Project

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Energy Corporation

Omaha Public Power District

Ormat

Paci c Gas and Electric Company

PECO

Peoples Gas

Pepco

Performance Services, Inc.

Permian Basin Petroleum Museum

Phillips 66

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

PPG

Prince George’s County O ce of Human Resource Management (MD)

Prince George’s County O ce of Sustainable Energy (MD)

Providence Public Schools

Public Service of Oklahoma - AEP

Quarto Publishing Group

The Rapha Foundation

Renewable Energy Alaska Project

Rhoades Energy

Rhode Island O ce of Energy Resources

Salal Foundation/Salal Credit Union

Salt River Project

Salt River Rural Electric Cooperative

Schneider Electric

C.T. Seaver Trust

Secure Solar Futures, LLC

Shell USA, Inc.

SMUD

Society of Petroleum Engineers

South Carolina Energy O ce

Southern Company Gas

Snohomish County PUD

SunTribe Solar

TXU Energy

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

Unitil

University of Iowa

University of Louisville

University of North Carolina

University of Northern Iowa

University of Rhode Island

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy–O ce of Energy

E ciency and Renewable Energy

U.S. Department of Energy - Solar Decathlon

U.S. Department of Energy - Water Power

Technologies O ce

U.S. Department of Energy–Wind for Schools

U.S. Energy Information Administration

United States Virgin Islands Energy O ce

Virginia Cooperative Extension

Vistra Energy

We Care Solar

West Virginia O ce of Energy

West Warwick Public Schools

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