Let’s talk about renewable energy in English.
1.) What aspects of people’s lives aren’t impacted by having electricity?
2.) What business sectors are threatened most by renewable energy?
3.) What do you know about renewable energy?
WARM UPS
Explore the interactive graph
World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence
VOCABULARY
Talk about the graphs and charts
Feel free to learn charts and graphs vocabulary first!
Try the writing exercise.
Renewable Resources – Our World In Data
Conversation Questions
1.) What are the following types of renewable energy? How do they work?
You can click on each one to learn more.
– solar power
– wind power
– biomass (biofuel)
– methane capture (biogas)
– geothermal energy
– hydroelectric energy
– wave power
– tidal power
– nuclear energy
– nuclear fusion
2.) What are the positive and negative impacts of each type?
– solar power
The Dark Side of Solar Energy – Harvard Business Review
– wind power
– biomass
– methane capture (biogas)
– geothermal energy
– hydroelectric energy
– wave power
– tidal power
– nuclear energy
The advantages and Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy – Earth.org
– nuclear fusion
More Conversation Questions
English Conversation Questions
Interview Questions
Renewable Energy Interview Questions and answers
READING
Business Green Magazine – Renewable Energy News
FactorThis – Green Energy News
ENERGY CRISIS EMINENT DO TO NEW DEMAND
Read up on how data centers are greatly increasing the need for more energy.
Optional homework: Prepare your thoughts and present them.
Reading Suggestions
How AI is Transforming Data Centers and Ramping Up Power Demand – Goldman Sachs
AI Data Centers are Coming for your Land, Water and Power – CNET
There’s a Stunning Financial Problem with AI Data Centers – Futurism
If AI is a Bubble, What Happens when it Pops? – CBC Radio
FURTHER STUDY
What is your Data Actually Worth? – By lukas-stein
Why AI Will Increase Healthcare Data Breaches – The HIPPA Journal
Healthcare Data Breaches: Insights and Implications – National Library of Medicine
What Indonesia’s Floating Solar Project can teach Colombia about a clean energy future – The City Paper
Environment, Energy, and Unintended Consequences – The Reporter
Learn more about unintended consequences!
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