FUN FACTS

1. Iceland is the first and only country to date which relies

solely on renewable sources for electricity.
2. Sufficient amounts of sunlight reach the earth every
minute to satisfy the entire worlds energy demands for
a year.
3. One bolt of lightning has enough electricity to supply
200 000 average size homes.
4. It is a little known fact that only ten percent of the
traditional light bulb is used for actual lighting. The
other 90% of the energy creates heat.
5. According to Google, the energy it takes to conduct 100
searches on its site is equivalent to a 60-watt light bulb
burning for 28 minutes. Google uses about 0.0003 KWh
of energy to answer the avenge search query, which
translates into about 0.2 g of carbon dioxide released.
6. We use 15 terawatts of electricity at any given
moment.1 Terawatt can light 10 billion 100 watt bulbs.
7. We take 2500 calories per day, whereas 1 calorie is
equal to 1 gram of TNT.
8. U.S.A consumes 25 % of world energy where Google
accounts for roughly 0.013% of the worlds energy use.
It uses enough energy to continuously power 200,000
homes
9. The Three Gorges Dam in China is the world's largest
hydroelectric power station.
10. A single wind turbine can power 500 homes.
11. The worlds biggest blackout occurred on August 14,
2004, when a massive power outage occurred across
the northeastern U.S. and throughout Ontario, Canada,
affecting 50 million people.
12. It takes 6 billion, billion electrons to light a 100-watt
light bulb for just 1 second. That's
6, 000,000,000,000,000,000!
13. One lightning strike can generate 100 million to 1
billion volts of electricity and the temperature of a
typical lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the
sun! The air within a lightning strike can reach 50,000
degrees Fahrenheit and its path can become five times
hotter than the surface of the sun.

FUN FACTS
14. Wind farms currently produce enough electricity to
meet the needs of more than 600,000 families.
15.