A Brighter Future

Richard Ta
Mr. Schurtz
English 12 AP:
Period 3
4 March 2010
“Every hour, the sun radiates more
energy onto the earth than the
entire human population uses in
one whole year.”
•United States Consumes
7 . 14 billion barrels of oil
annually

•57 % are imported from foreign

countries
 Class Activities
• Distribute a calculations table that
estimates how much money could
be saved annually by switching to
solar energy.
•
World Solar Challenge

•Innovation
•Sponsorships
•Publicity
•
•Popular Culture has been going
“green”
•Households trying to reduce
carbon footprint
•Companies buy energy credits
• Enormous
governmen
t incentives
• Emergency
power
source
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