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Thomas Edison built the first electrical power plant that powered a square mile.
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Staff member of Argonne National Laboratory designed and built a nuclear reactor which could power 4 100-watt light bulbs.
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the act ended the government monopoly on technical data and made the growth of a private commercial nuclear industry an urgent national goal. It assigned the AEC 3 roles: to continue its weapons program, to promote the private use of atomic energy for peaceful applications, and to protect public health and safety from the hazards of commercial nuclear power.
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OPEC’s objective is to coordinate and unify petroleum policies among member countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers.
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in his speech he details how the US is facing an imminent energy shortage and argues that the country must make profound changes in the way it uses energy.
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the escalating global energy issues convinced the US government to focus more of energy programs, which led to the creation of the US department of energy
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the goal of the bill was to make electricity from photovoltaic systems economically competitive with energy from conventional sources.
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it consisted of 20 wind turbines at 30 kilowatts each.
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officially called the spark m. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990, the goal of the bill was to accelerate efforts to develop a domestic capability to economically produce hydrogen in quantities that will reduce the nations’ needs for conventional fuels.
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Named Ivanpah, the plant harnesses the abundant sunlight of the Southwest United States to provide power of a massive scale. The plant has the capacity to power 94,400 average American homes.
