Beehive Geyser Erupting in Yellowstone National Park.
You have “geo,” meaning earth, and “thermal” meaning heat. Together, you have “geothermal,” another word for super hot earth. Where and how does earth get so darn hot?
Magma Heats Things Up
Planet Earth’s center contains melted...
Nov
01
Reading about energy can be a little bit of a snooze. That’s why we are energizing our energy section, bringing you information about alternative energy forms that are being fine-tuned for our future.
Looking Into the Future
What’s the Earth going to be like thirty or forty years from now? Oil...
Oct
14
Biomass Energy
Did you know that poop can make power? It’s true. Gas rising from the poop of 500 cows can create enough electricity to power 100 homes. That’s some powerful poop!
Poop is a form of “biomass” which is the name for all living, or recently living materials coming from plants...
Oct
10
You’ve heard of Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, right? It shoots boiling hot water high into the air every ninety minutes or so. That hot water comes from way down in the middle of the Earth, and then gets shot out at high pressure.
This super-hot water from way down there is...
Sep
07
Source:National Energy Education Development Project
Air moving around is called wind. Duh! But what makes that air move around in the first place? During the day, air above land heats up quicker than air over water. The warm air over land rises, allowing the heavier, cooler air to rush in and take...
Sep
06
Source: U.S. Department of Energy
There is so much talk about energy these days, but do you know what that means?
Scientists define energy as the ability to do work. What that means is that humans have found ways to change one form of energy to another to work for us. For example, we change wood...
Sep
03
