Energy+Resources

**__Energy Resources__: Meeting Human Needs**
This page contains information and links regarding various types of energy resources, including renewable and nonrenewable resources.

How To Make Electricity - This tutorial website shows you various methods of making electricity.
====[|How Magnets are Used to Make Electricity] - (3:36) This old school video does a great job of clearly describing how magnets are used to induce an electric current in metals.====

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===Build a Circuit - This simulation allows you to build different types of circuits and interact with them to determine how voltage and amperage change.===

Dirty Jobs: Roughnecking - (11:51) Watch as Mike Rowe tries working an oil rig for a day. The job is tough, dirty, and dangerous, which is why oil rig workers are called roughnecks. The drilling mud used is made of dense clay, barite, chalk and some other additives to increase its viscosity. media type="custom" key="24227092" align="center"

Fracking: Explained in 2 minutes - (2:03) This video does a great job of explaining the entire fracking process, along with describing the risks and concerns of citizens. The only thing that was missed was the steel pipe casing they place in the well hole and the concrete that is pumped around the outside of the steel pipe casing. media type="youtube" key="SzJUkzY_bVs" height="480" width="640" align="center"

Fracking: The Detailed Version - (7:25) While focused on another layer of shale called the Utica, the same thing applies to the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania. The Utica is found under Pennsylvania also, but a few thousand feet below the Marcellus shale. media type="youtube" key="CM8Lh7SAm6A" height="480" width="853" align="center"

====[|Fracking the Marcellus Shale] - (17:52) This video describes the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and how this is affecting Pennsylvania.====

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[|BP Gulf Oil Spill] - (3:45) This video/music timeline shows the series of events that unfolded during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. media type="youtube" key="gExZYxtdzrU?version=3" height="349" width="425" align="center"

====[|Breeding Biofuels] - (2:47) This video shows the current methods and new technologies involved with producing biofuels.==== media type="custom" key="12522808" align="center"

====[|William Kamkwamba: How I Harnessed the Wind] - (5:59) This TED talk features a young man from Malawi describes how he taught himself physics in order to bring electricity to his village by making a homemade wind turbine.==== media type="custom" key="10077235" align="center"

Solar Energy Panels - (1:15) This video clip provides a quick description of solar cells and photovoltaic panels. media type="youtube" key="AmWrGPKcMNM" height="315" width="420" align="center"

How Hydroelectric Power Works - (6:04) Watch this quick lesson on hydroelectric power from a Georgia science teacher. media type="youtube" key="cOqcivR1eQ4" height="315" width="560" align="center"

===Ground Zero - This widget allows you to select a location using Google Maps, select a nuclear weapon (or asteroid impact) to determine the affects on the surrounding areas. Try using Dover, PA as the location and check out the impacts of these different sized nuclear bombs. (kt = kilotons or thousands of tons of dynamite, mt = megatons or millions of tons of dynamite)=== media type="custom" key="12367256" align="center"