Energy and Environment I NAME: ANSWERS

Quiz #1

15 minutes

25 points

Closed books and notes

Some of the following statements have errors.

Correct the errors.

The corrections are in red
  1. The 6 most important primary energies used in the world are:
  1. Nearly 40% of the primary energy used by the world is oil.
  2. Nearly 40% of the primary energy used by the USA is oil.
  3. The biggest user of oil in the USA is the industrial transportation sector.
  4. More electricity is generated in the USA from coal than any other primary energy.
  5. A large small percentage of electricity in the USA is also generated from oil.
  6. The fossil fuel with the largest rate of growth for the generation of electricity in the USA is natural gas.
  7. Many large electricity generating power plants have a rated energy power output of about 1000 megawatts.
  8. One of the newspaper articles discussed in class on Monday indicated that by 2020 about 80% of the world’s oil will be provided by the Middle East.
  9. Many residences in Western Washington pay about 6 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity.
  10. Per capita power use in the USA is about 11 kw. This is about double the per capita power used in Europe.
  11. Water was an important source of energy in colonial America for the operation of mills for grinding grain. Therefore, most of the major cities mills were built next to rapidly flowing rivers and river rapids. (The major cities were built on the sea coast and at the mouths of the rivers, because of the dependency on wind-driven ships for the transport of goods and people.)