A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Sweden is so good at recycling, it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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