Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future
This fascinating book explores the pros and cons of the top 25 green electricity technologies, illuminating how each technology works and detailing the key hurdles each emerging energy strategy has to overcome before it becomes a viable option.

Our existing electric utility industry and power supply and delivery systems are woefully outdated. Indeed, the existing power grid we use today uses 100-year-old technology! This book lays out the possible blueprints for a greener future in a way that will engage middle school learners, enabling students and teachers to explore the emerging energy technologies that could become the future of our electrical supply system.

In Part 1 of Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future, the author describes the amazing patchwork of 1,300 power plants and over 5 million miles of wire that comprise our national grid and reveals the environmental damages it produces. Part 2 examines the 25 leading ecofriendly contenders to modernize and replace our current grid, describing each proposed technology and how it works. Other relevant information is also provided, such as a qualitative assessment of the pluses, minuses, and limitations of each system, and an assessment of that technology's potential to contribute to our future electrical appetite.

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Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future
This fascinating book explores the pros and cons of the top 25 green electricity technologies, illuminating how each technology works and detailing the key hurdles each emerging energy strategy has to overcome before it becomes a viable option.

Our existing electric utility industry and power supply and delivery systems are woefully outdated. Indeed, the existing power grid we use today uses 100-year-old technology! This book lays out the possible blueprints for a greener future in a way that will engage middle school learners, enabling students and teachers to explore the emerging energy technologies that could become the future of our electrical supply system.

In Part 1 of Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future, the author describes the amazing patchwork of 1,300 power plants and over 5 million miles of wire that comprise our national grid and reveals the environmental damages it produces. Part 2 examines the 25 leading ecofriendly contenders to modernize and replace our current grid, describing each proposed technology and how it works. Other relevant information is also provided, such as a qualitative assessment of the pluses, minuses, and limitations of each system, and an assessment of that technology's potential to contribute to our future electrical appetite.

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Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future

Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future

by Kendall Haven
Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future

Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future

by Kendall Haven

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This fascinating book explores the pros and cons of the top 25 green electricity technologies, illuminating how each technology works and detailing the key hurdles each emerging energy strategy has to overcome before it becomes a viable option.

Our existing electric utility industry and power supply and delivery systems are woefully outdated. Indeed, the existing power grid we use today uses 100-year-old technology! This book lays out the possible blueprints for a greener future in a way that will engage middle school learners, enabling students and teachers to explore the emerging energy technologies that could become the future of our electrical supply system.

In Part 1 of Green Electricity: 25 Green Technologies That Will Electrify Your Future, the author describes the amazing patchwork of 1,300 power plants and over 5 million miles of wire that comprise our national grid and reveals the environmental damages it produces. Part 2 examines the 25 leading ecofriendly contenders to modernize and replace our current grid, describing each proposed technology and how it works. Other relevant information is also provided, such as a qualitative assessment of the pluses, minuses, and limitations of each system, and an assessment of that technology's potential to contribute to our future electrical appetite.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781598845792
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/30/2011
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kendall Haven, MS, is a research scientist, a professional storyteller, a presenter of storytelling and writing workshops, and a West Point graduate.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Using This Book xiii

Part I Not So Green: The Grid We Have Today

The Amazing U.S. Electric Grid: Delivering Electricity to Your Doorstep 3

What Does "Green" Mean? 9

A Closer Look at Why Our Grid Isn't Green 13

Part 2 Greener Pastures: 25 Electric Technologies of the Future

Introduction 21

Free Electricity for Everyone!: Fusion 23

Let the Sun Sizzle!: Solar Thermal Electricity 27

Beaming Megawatts: Solar Energy from Space 32

"Up on the Roof": Solar Photovoltaic Energy 36

"Blowin' in the Wind": Wind Turbines 41

"Go Fly a Kite!": Wind Kites 47

Mighty Minnies: Micro-Nukes 52

The Genie's Magic Energy Lamp: Fuel Cells 56

Borrowing the Planet's Energy: Geothermal Energy 62

River Hum: Hydroelectric Energy 68

A Swim in the Balmy, Briny Sea: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) 73

"Catch a Wave, Dude!": Ocean Wave Energy 78

Rolling', Rollin' with the Tide: Ocean Tidal Energy 84

The Mightiest River: Ocean Current Energy 89

The Sweet Smell of Garbage: Municipal Solid Waste 95

Taking the Power Plant to the Farm: Bio Crop Waste 100

Growing Electricity: Energy Crops 105

A BIG Future for the Smallest Atom: Hydrogen 109

"Natural" Gas: Methane Energy 114

A Tidy Lump of Coal: Clean Coal Technology 119

Teaming Up: Electrical Cogeneration 125

Second Time Around: Energy Recapture 130

Electricity in a Box: Batteries and Energy Storage 135

Micro-Might: Nanotechnology 140

The Power Plant That Never Was: Energy Conservation 146

The Future Grid: The Horse Race to Your Greener Energy Future 151

Index 159

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