*Green Megatrends - (copy)

Top 12 Trends to Help Planet Earth

An introduction to the most important trends that could help the USA become energy self sufficient, reduce pollution, improve our health and lower carbon emissions in order to help reduce climate change.
Name: 


A red asterisk (*) indicates required questions.

  1. We generate 50% of our energy from coal, 20% from gas 10% from hydroelectric energy, 5% from wind energy, 5% from geothermal energy, and 3% from Solar Energy*
    True
    False


  1. Peak Oil refers to what phenomenom*
    Where the best crude oil is running out
    Where heavy crude oil is starting to be the only option
    Where the cost of oil peaks at $150 a barrel


  1. We need oil energy independence*
    To bring back some of the 500 billion dollars spent yearly on foreign oil
    If oil prices go back up to $148 a barrell like in 2007
    In case there is a blockade of oil in the Persian Gulf or Suez Canal
    Because oil production in starting to Peak


  1. Unless we make a spurt for Clean Technology in the USA, at present rate _________ of the worlds manufacturing will go overseas*
    60
    70
    80


  1. Although _______ of the public is polled to want Renewable Energy, they are not listened to by the government because of the powerful energy lobbies*
    50%
    64%
    75%


  1. Around the world, new generators coming online are mostly __________, vs USA tendency for ______________*
    Smaller
    Larger


  1. The triple bottom line refers to a corporation *
    Financial Bottom Line
    Social Bottom Line
    Energy Savings Bottom Line


  1. Win Win! Empathise with your Oil and Coal Company. Oil companies are reaching Peak Oil and Coal Companies realize they will be taxed for carbon emissions. Coal is still going to be part of our energy for years to come. Join our contest for the best ideas to help Fossil Fuels become stakeholders in the Renewable Energy Economy. Help improve on the ideas below:*
    Help them adopt best practices for Cleaner Coal Burning and more sustainable Fracking
    Let them keep their subsidies and invest them into companies that will help you make your home and business more energy efficient or put a solar or wind energy farm in your community or solar on your roof
    Help them diversify into Renewable Energy.


  1. Amory Lovins says large coal plant electricity generators using 1960's technology versus our current paradigm of better output microgeneration*
    Like using mainframe computers to do the work of laptops
    Like using a landline to do the work of a cell phone


  1. Most electricity supplies are used to produce electricity. Coal companies are now using cogeneration and grasses. What is cogeneration? Cogeneration is Heat from industrial production used to create electricity.*
    True
    False


  1. Geologists now believe that it is not safe to take Carbon generated from Coal Plants and place it underground*
    True
    False


  1. _______coal factories are starting up in the next ten years. _____ have been kept from starting due to environmental activism*
    100, 150
    10, 15


  1. What recent environmental disaster shows problems regarding pollution from Coal Factories?*
    Ash contaminating 300 Miles of Tennessee
    Coal mine disaster in West Virginia
    ANWA Coal Mining
    Strip Coal Mining ruining mountains, polluting streams and forestry


  1. We Imported __________ of our oil from overseas in 1973. Now we import __________ of our oil from overseas*
    35%, 70%
    70%, 35%


  1. Even if we drill for oil in the USA, we don't keep it here. It gets exported. However, it's good to drill here since we can use it if there is a national emergency.*
    True
    False


  1. ______ of the foreign oil we import from overseas is from countries whose policies are hostile to us. A problem in the Persian Gulf or Suez Canal could effect 67% of the world's oil imports.
    40%
    50%
    60%


  1. Gulf Oil problem happened in part because *
    Environmentalist didn't allow drilling close to shore
    BP took risks about drilling that wasn't legal


  1. There are no long lasting problems from the Gulf Oil spill*
    People's health is still being affected
    Are there long term health effects?


  1. The bigger problem from the Gulf Oil spill is the detergents use to settle the oil on the bottom of the Gulf rather than the oil itself*
    True
    False


  1. Cleaner Fossil Fuels
    Best practices for Cleaner Coal and Fracking
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil_
    a
    b


  1. 3150 Coal Plants

    a
    b


  1. Coal Problems (from their website)

    a
    b


  1. Subsidies each

    a
    b


  1. Coal Taxes

    a
    b


  1. Therefore less investment Coal Plants

    a
    b


  1. Coal Cleaner

    a
    b


  1. Fracking Safer

    a
    b





Allen Rubin