Energy Timeline 2024 by Jennifer Clemons https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y NRG 154 class- Spring 2024 en-us 2024-01-09 18:22:42 UTC 2024-01-17 14:49:17 UTC hello@padlet.com jclemons16 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843237655 1000AD

]]> 2024-01-09 18:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843237655 jclemons16 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843237913 Industrial Revolution

]]> 2024-01-09 18:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843237913 jclemons16 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843238244 2000

]]> 2024-01-09 18:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2843238244 Wind - By 200 BC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850857854 Wind-powered water pumps were used in China & Windmills with woven-reed blades were used to grind grain in Persia and the Middle East

]]> 2024-01-16 18:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850857854 Wind - Late 1800s/Early 1900s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850858706 Small wind-electric generators (wind turbines) were widely used in the US

]]> 2024-01-16 19:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850858706 Wind - 1970s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850859452 Oil shortages created an interest in developing alternative energy sources, such as wind energy; the US federal government supported research and development of large wind turbines

]]> 2024-01-16 19:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850859452 Nuclear - 1942 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850860453 Dr. Enrico Fermi initiated the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

]]> 2024-01-16 19:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850860453 Nuclear - 2012 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850861447 Total US nuclear summer electricity generation capacity peaked at 102,000 MW

]]> 2024-01-16 19:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850861447 Nuclear - 2023 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850861977 Newest nuclear reactor to enter service since 2016 is Unit 3 at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia

]]> 2024-01-16 19:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2850861977 Biofuels 1900 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851932995 demonstration of the (recently invented) Diesel engine running on peanut oil

]]> 2024-01-17 14:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851932995 Hydro 1880-1896 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851933365 Hydropower was beginning to be used for electricity (First hydroelectric plants DC)

The Niagara Falls hydropower station opened. It provided electricity to local area



]]> 2024-01-17 14:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851933365 Tidal, 1924 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851933486 U.S Federal Power Commission carrie out study of large-scale tidal power plants

]]> 2024-01-17 14:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851933486 Biofuels 1910s/1940s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936437 Ethanol and sometimes vegetable oil used as fuels during first and second world wars

]]> 2024-01-17 14:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936437 Tidal, 1956 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936452 Nova Scota Light and Power commisioned another set of studies

]]> 2024-01-17 14:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936452 Hydro 1961-1963 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936758 The Columbia River Trety was signed between U.S. and Canada. Under the treaty Canada built two dams for storage and one dam for generation.


]]> 2024-01-17 14:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851936758 Solar - 1950s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851937198 NASA found out that using silicon in solar cells increased efficiency

]]> 2024-01-17 14:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851937198 Biofuels 1973-74 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851938176 OPEC embargo of US (and other countries) prompts interest in domestic energy alternatives, including ethanol and biodiesel

]]> 2024-01-17 14:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851938176 Solar - 1883 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851939598 First solar cell was invented. Used selenium and was less than 1% efficient

]]> 2024-01-17 14:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851939598 Tidal, 1965 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851940516 First commercial-scale tidal power plant in Rance Estuary near St. Malo, France.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851940516 Hydro 2022 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851941715 Between 6% and 10% of U.S. electricity comes from hydropower, depending on water supply and annual rainfall. In total, the United States has about 80,000 megawatts of conventional capacity and 18,000 megawatts of pumped storage capacity.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851941715 Gas 1785 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851942060 in Britain, begin to use gas derived from coal to light houses and streets


]]> 2024-01-17 14:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851942060 Biomass, Before 1800s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851942831 Traditional biomass is the main source of energy for much of the world.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851942831 Solar - 1997 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851944000 Kyoto Protocol was signed by 41 different countries to reduce ghg emissions. (Start of mass green energy revolution)

]]> 2024-01-17 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851944000 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851944465 Geothermal 1922 - John D. Grant has success with the US’s first geothermal power plant.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851944465 Gas 1825 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945360 in Fredonia, NY first commercial natural gas well in US

]]> 2024-01-17 14:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945360 Biomass, 1800s https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945619 Industrial Revolution, Biomass use dropped in place of fossil fuels such as coal.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945619 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945809 Geothermal 1960 - The first large-scale geothermal electricity generating plant begins operation through Pacific Gas and Electric.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851945809 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851946658 Geothermal- EVERYTHING 1977 - The U.S. DOE (Department of Energy) is formed

]]> 2024-01-17 14:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851946658 Biomass, 2018 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851947092 12% of 292 million tons of MSW produced in the United States processed in waste-to-energy plants.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851947092 Petroleum - 347 AD https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851947359 First oil wells were drilled by the Chinese using bamboo poles (mainly for salt & brine)

]]> 2024-01-17 14:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851947359 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948104 COAL 1800’s - Coal became the leading source of energy for locomotive engines; coal was also used to create the iron rails which in turn brought the use of coal (and the need) across the country.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948104 Gas 1998 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948210 first economical use of hydraulic fracking for gas from shale, followed by boom in gas production using this technique

]]> 2024-01-17 14:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948210 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948873 COAL 1882 - The first ‘practical’ coal fired electric generating station went into operation in New York City to supply energy to households.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851948873 Petroleum - 1859 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851949337 Oil was first discovered in America in Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake

]]> 2024-01-17 14:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851949337 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851949750 COAL 1961 - Coal had become the leading source of energy used by electric utilities in the US.

]]> 2024-01-17 14:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851949750 Petroleum - 1908 https://padlet.com/jclemons16/33hawz0rv489vm3y/wish/2851951089 Henry Ford creates the Model T car. First mass produced inexpensive vehicle

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