What do you know about Energy? Take the energy quiz!

However, before you see how many of the energy questions you got right please  take a few moments and answer a couple of poll questions.

1. Who Is This?

Answer: Democrat, Ca, Congressman Waxman the sponsor for the Energy bill that was recently passed by the House.

2. Name the Dirtiest Country

Answer: China.

source NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/world/asia/14china.html in that article the Elizabeth Rosenthal wrote “The report, released Friday by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, found that in 2007 China’s emissions were 14 percent higher than those of the United States. In the previous year’s annual study, the researchers found for the first time that China had become the world’s leading emitter, with carbon emissions 7 percent higher by volume than the United States in 2006.”

3. Grimy Suspects

Answer: United States.

Again in the same NY Times article Rosenthal writes “The United States still has a vast lead in carbon dioxide emissions per person. The average American is responsible for 19.4 tons. Average emissions per person in Russia are 11.8 tons; in the European Union, 8.6 tons; China, 5.1 tons; and India, 1.8 tons.”

However, one must remember it is the total amount of something that is important not the per capita. The per capita is only how the total is sub divided and has nothing to do with the consequences of the sum.

4. Can climate change be good?

Answer: Yes There may be positive consequences. Studies have shown 3 periods since 3400 years ago that had warming trends similar to what is being experienced today. They occurred every hundred years during the existence of the Minoan period, the Roman period and the Medieval period. The 1100 year cycle indicates a strong possibility that the current warming period is, in fact, due to this cycle.

Of course just like the carbon emissions theory for global warming the 1100 hundred year cycle theory should be considered a theory until stronger evidence is gathered to prove or disprove it. But, it should not be discounted by “global warming zealots ” who claim the debate is over.

5. Where does it come from?

Answer: True, almost 50% of the electricity generated in the U.S.comes from coal fired generating plants.

6. Exporter of shocks!

Answer: France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity.

7. Where do they get all of their energy?

Answer: Over 75% of the electricity generated in France comes from Nuclear energy.

8. Nukes to go.

Answer: France, at last count it had more than 59 nuclear power plants.

9. I didn't do it.

Answer: Mark Kirk was one of Republicans who didn't vote against the energy bill. Kirk recently announced his bid for Republican Senator. Republicans in Illinois should remember Kirk in the primaries and vote against him. Democrats in Illinois should cross party lines and vote for Kirk.