Renewable Energy Tech

What this quiz asks

• What does a photovoltaic solar panel turn sunlight directly into?
• Most solar cells are made from which chemical element?
• Iceland, a land of volcanoes, heats around nine in ten of its homes with which kind of energy?
• Almost all large modern wind turbines have three blades.
• The Three Gorges Dam, China's giant hydroelectric plant, holds back which river?
• Select ALL of these whose energy ultimately comes from sunlight.
• Does a solar panel still produce some electricity on a cloudy day?
• In a home solar system, what is the main job of the inverter?
• On a wind turbine, what is the 'nacelle'?
• How does a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant store energy?
• The first large tidal power station opened in 1966 on the estuary of which French river?
• Select ALL of these that are parts of a lithium-ion battery cell.
• The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of which technology?
• Order these milestones in energy technology from earliest to most recent.
• A heat pump can deliver more heat energy into a home than the electrical energy it uses.
• Concentrated solar power plants use mirrors to focus sunlight. What is the heat usually used for?
• In what year did Bell Labs unveil the first practical silicon solar cell?
• The world's first offshore wind farm, Vindeby, began producing power in 1991 off the coast of which country?
• According to the Betz limit, no wind turbine can capture more than about what share of the wind's energy?
• The power carried by the wind rises with the cube of its speed. If the wind speed doubles, the power grows by how many times?