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| 318092578 | Nonrenewable | A resource that cannot be remade quickly or cannot be remade at all | 0 | |
| 318092579 | Potentially Renewable | can be replaced rather rapidly | 1 | |
| 318092580 | Nondepletable | solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal energy = nondepletable in the span of human time. no matter how much you use there will always be more. tomorrow's resource does not depend on today's use | 2 | |
| 318092581 | Renewable | that can be replaced naturally | 3 | |
| 318092582 | Energy Conservation | the practice of finding ways to use less energy or to use energy more efficiently | 4 | |
| 318092583 | Tiered Rate System | customers pay a low rate for the first increment of electricity they use and pay higher rates as their use goes up | 5 | |
| 318092584 | Peak Demand | the greatest quantity of energy used at any one time | 6 | |
| 318092585 | Passive Solar Design | the technique of heating and cooling a building naturally without the use of mechanical equipment | 7 | |
| 318092586 | Thermal Inertia | Tendency of a substance to resist change in temperature with the gain or loss of heat energy. | 8 | |
| 318092587 | Biofuels | Fuels, such as ethanol or methanol, that are created from the fermentation of plants or plant products. | 9 | |
| 318092588 | Modern Carbon | Carbon in biomass that was recently in the atmosphere | 10 | |
| 318092589 | Fossil Carbon | has been buried for millions of years. less neutral than modern carbon | 11 | |
| 318092590 | Carbon Neutral | of or relating to fuels that produce an amount of CO2 when burned that is equal to or less than the amount taken up by the plants from which they are made | 12 | |
| 318092591 | Net Removal | the process of removing more than is replaced by growth, typically used when referring to carbon | 13 | |
| 318092592 | Ethanol | the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors | 14 | |
| 319088915 | Biodiesel | processed fuel made from vegetable oil or animal fats which can be used in unmodified diesel engines | 15 | |
| 319088916 | Flex-fuel Vehicles | vehicles that can burn variable mixtures of gasoline and ethanol | 16 | |
| 319088917 | Hydroelectricity | electricity produced by water power | 17 | |
| 319088918 | Run-of-the-river | Any of several methods used to generate hydroelectric power without greatly disrupting the flow of river water. | 18 | |
| 319106249 | Water Impoundment | the storage of water in a reservoir behind a dam | 19 | |
| 319106250 | Tidal Energy | the energy captured by transforming the wave motion of water into electrical energy using a turbine | 20 | |
| 319106251 | Siltation | a sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay | 21 | |
| 319106252 | Active Solar Energy | collects solar energy and converts it either to heat or to electricity | 22 | |
| 319106253 | Photovoltaic Solar Cells | capture energy from the Sun as light, not heat, and convert it directly into electricity | 23 | |
| 319106254 | Geothermal | energy produced by thermal energy inside of Earth | 24 | |
| 319106255 | Ground Source Heat Pumps | takes advantage of the high thermal inertia of the ground | 25 | |
| 319106256 | Wind Energy | the energy captured by transforming the motion of air into electrical energy using a turbine | 26 | |
| 319106257 | Wind Turbine | a windmill connected to a generator that produces elecricity | 27 | |
| 319106258 | Electrolysis | the process in which an electric current is used to produce a chemical reaction, such as the decomposition of water | 28 | |
| 319106259 | Fuel Cell | cell that produces electricity by oxidation of fuel | 29 | |
| 319106260 | Smart Grid | delivers electricity using two-way digital technology | 30 |
