What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

In this lesson you can score points in an

energy quiz…. (1 point for each correct answer)

Is that what I get from eating

chocolate?

Do you know how many types

of renewable energy there are?

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

1. What are these places?

2. What are they producing?

3. What kind of fuel are they using?

4. What are the problems with producing power this way?

PART 1What can you remember?

power stations

Coal fired power station

A B C

Gas fired power station

Nuclear power station

electricity

A. coal B. gas C. uranium

Fossil fuels: produce carbon dioxide causing climate change and they will run out. Nuclear: produces radioactive waste.

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

PART 21. We need to use sources of

energy that are more s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

2. To do this we can use r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ energy.

3. What sources of energy won’t run out or cause pollution?

u s t a i n a b l ee n e w a b l e

wind Sun water

plants (biomass)

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

1. What are these?

2. What do they do?

3. Why are they here?

PART 3 WIND

Wind turbines

Produce electricity from the wind

Because it is windy

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

We can get energy from the movement of water as

1. it flows down a g _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. it moves up and down in w_ _ _ _

3. it flows in and out with the t_ _ _

PART 4 WATER

r a d i e n t

a v e s

i d e

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

1. What is the structure in the photograph called?

2. In the diagram, what is the name of part A?

3. When might it be difficult to make electricity?

PART 5 HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER (gradient)

A dam

Turbine

Drought or low rainfall

pylondam reservoir

A

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There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

Wind

The building contains a turbine that makes electricity using the power of the movement of waves.

PART 6 WAVE POWER

What is the force that acts on water

to create waves?

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There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

Here is a picture of another power source at sea.

PART 7 TIDAL POWER

Tidal currents

What is causing these turbines to turn?

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

This is renewable energy from solar power.

1. What are the panels on these roofs producing?

2. Which direction should the panels face?

PART 8 Sun

electricity

towards the Sun (south)

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There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

The Sun is not generating electricity here but it is still providing useful energy. Do you know what it is doing in each picture?

3. The Sun is heating the house in A by warming the c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

This is known as passive solar heating.

4. In B the Sun is heating w _ _ _ _. This is known as a solar thermal collector.

A B

onservatory

ater

What size is your carbon footprint?

There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

1. What do these pictures show?

2. How can cutting down trees be renewable energy?

PART 9 PLANT (BIOMASS)

Willow trees

growing

The trees will re-grow or new trees can be planted

Trees cut and

shredded

Wood pellets burnt in

boilers to produce

heat

A B C

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There’s more to renewable energy than wind power

So how well did you do?

15 - 20 good21-25 very good

26+ excellent

This PowerPoint and lesson are based on work by Ian Mitchell, The Green Egg Company, developed & edited by Amie Andrews for TLCP and Ali Ross, Sundog Energy.