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Curricular Area(s): Business, Environment, Science
Subject(s): Alternative Energy, Conservation, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy

America's Oil Needs and New Energy Options
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio
March 3rd, 2006 Edition: 14:00-15:00 PM

Renewable Intrest
Oakland Tribune, The (CA) Section: Inside Bay Area
Author: Matthew Bunk, BUSINESS WRITER

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Can energy ever be lost? NewsBank Kids Page Project
In this activity students will be asked to think about energy:
What is energy? How do you use energy? When do you need energy?

Where does energy come from? NewsBank Kids Page Project
In this activity students will be asked to think about energy: What powers our cars, our lights, and our furnaces? Where does this energy come from? What are some of the problem with these kinds of energy? Vocabulary: fossil, renewable, silicon, harness.

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What to do about the Gas Crisis? Click on the PDF link.
Ths article discusses what the federal government can cannot do about high gasoline prices. Factors contributing to the higher global demand for petroleum from OPEC; Reasons for the oil supply's long-term elasticity; Why consumers are willing to pay higher prices; Pros and cons of encouraging oil independence; Outlook for a price collapse.

Farming New Fuels
The article focuses on Seattle Biodiesel, started by John Plaza, which makes an alternative fuel derived from vegetable oil that burns clean.

Ethanol, Meet Biodiesel.
The article reports that the United States federal government has begun a $1-a-gallon subsidy for soybean diesel oil. The idea of a homegrown, renewable fuel is seductive in these days of $50-a-barrel oil.

Types of Energy Britannica > Learning Material > Study Guide > Science
This Study Guides includes discussions of the following types of kinetic energy: heat, sound, electromagnetic, electrical; and these types of potential energy: gravitational potential, chemical, and nuclear.

Energy, Work, and Power Britannica > Learning Material > Study Guide > Science
This Study Guide includes overviews of calculating work, potential energy, gravitational potential energy, kinetic energy and the equation of motion, conservation of energy, power and work.

Fossil Fuel
Britannica encycopeadia article on the types and sourcses of fossil fuels.

Energy crisis kindles search for alternatives
In the 1970s and 1980s, Western countries became keenly aware of their dependence on foreign oil. The events that first raised their consciousness came in 1973.