1. Topics for Environment Project:

2. Ozone Air Pollution Water Cycle Drought Floods Acid Rain Water Pollution

3. El Nino Hurricane Tornado Tsunami Recycling International Space Station/ Future of Space Travel Space/ShuttleProgram

4. Volcanoes Earthquakes Landslides Wild Fires Coal Mining Oil and Gas Hydrofracking Nuclear Power Wind Power

5. Green Alternatives Recycling Solar Power Fuel Cell Vehicles Electric Vehicles Alternative Fuel Vehicles Hydropower Geothermal Biomass

6. -Avalanches -Buildings of the Future -Environmental Disasters

7. Green Energy

8. 1st Generation Technologies: 1800’s Geothermal Biomass Hydropower

9. Geothermal Energy - -Heat generated and stored in the Earth (<1%)

10. The Geysers in the Mayacamas Mountains, California

11. Naturally-occurring steam fields Video

12. Biological material from living, or recently living organisms that is converted into energy, like electricity. (4% in 2010). Biomass

13. Energy Crops: Switchgrass

14. Corn Stalks

15. Sugarcane fields in Brazil

16. Sugarcane plant in Brazil, Producing electricity.

17. Clean Municipal and Industrial Wastes methane can be captured from landfills

18. Biomass: Controversial? Whole tree harvesting (use the entire tree). Removes nutrients from the soil?

20. It’s goal : “Ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity." International: 3 million members

21. Hydropower = Energy From Moving Water

22. 6% of renewable energy in USA is Hydropower: #1 source!

24. Hoover Dam:1942 (Nevada)

26. 3 Gorges Dam in China= World’s largest hydropower plant

27. Second-generation technologies: Started in the 1970’s (energy crisis). Solar Wind Power

28. Solar Power: Convert sunlight to electricity Spain

29. CSP Systems: (Concentrating solar power) Use lenses/mirrors to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam of sunlight. The heat is then converted to electricity.

30. Cresent Dunes project in Nevada: power up to 75,000 homes

31. SEGS : 9 sites in Mojave Desert, California: World’s Largest CSP Solar facility

32. Photovoltaic Solar Power A solar cell that converts light into electricity (Germany) video

33. Copper Mountain facility in Nevada

35. Wind Power: Electricity from moving air

36. Wind turbines in the ocean.

38. Wind Turbine: Switzerland

39. Roscoe Wind Farm, Texas = World’s largest (100,000 acres)

40. 3 rd generation technologies:

41. Ocean Current Energy

42. Fuel Cell Vehicles Converts the chemical energy from a fuel (Hydrogen) into electricity.

43. Fuel Cell Bus: London, England

44. Fuel Cell Boat: Germany

45. Fuel Cell Car: Honeoye Falls (plant relocated to Michigan 2012)

46. Plug-in Hybrid (Prius) $32,000 95 mpg

47. $28,800 (2013) All electric Nissan Leaf

48. The Leaf actually costs $21,300! The government gives REBATES to people who purchase this vehicle!

49. Welcome to Buy Green, Save Green NYS High-Efficiency Appliance Rebates! If you are a resident of New York State, you can receive a cash rebate of $350 by purchasing an eligible CEE High Efficiency Tier 2 or 3 refrigerator, or $250 by purchasing an eligible CEE High Efficiency Tier 2 or 3 clothes washer!eligible Purchases must be made on or after March 19, 2012.

50. $3.5 million in rebates were offered. This money disappeared in 2 days!

51. Qualifying factors — Exterior windows and doors must have a U factor and SHGC equal to or less than 0.30. ENERGY STAR products qualify for this credit. Credit amount — Exterior windows and skylights, storm windows, exterior doors and storm doors : 30% of cost: 2009