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NOVA: Chasing Carbon Zero
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/chasing-carbon-zero/
Introduction
1.
What is the significance of reducing carbon emissions by 2050?
Transportation - Part 1
2.
What are the advantages of electric vehicles?
3.
What are the difficulties of transitioning from cars with combustion engines to
electric vehicles?
4.
What three sectors contribute the most significantly to carbon emissions?
5.
What is NET Zero?
Buildings
6.
How can buildings be changed to reduce carbon emissions?
7.
What is a heat pump?
8.
How is the company Block Power trying to contribute to a reduction in emissions?
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Industry
9.
What significance do commercial kitchens and restaurants have on carbon
emissions?
10.
Compare a gas stove to an induction stove? How do they each work? How do they
each contribute to carbon emissions?
11.
What is methane? What is its impact on the environment? What are the key sources
of methane?
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12.
How does the oil industry contribute to carbon emissions?
13.
What are the advantages and challenges of offshore wind turbines?
14.
Why are batteries important?
15.
Label the following diagram with these
key terms, and draw an arrow pointing the
direction of the flow of electrons in a battery as
it gives-off energy. Anode, cathode,
permeable membrane.
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16.
What is geothermal energy? How do geothermal electric plants produce electricity?
What challenges does this form of energy present?
Transportation - Part II
17.
What are the challenges of charging an electric vehicle? How are these challenges
being met?
18.
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What is the “green industrial revolution?”