Environmental Engineering Reference
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13.
C
Solar panels work well in remote locations where it may be difficult or too expensive to run power
lines to transport electricity. Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands off the coast of California runs
one of its facilities using solar panels, storing electricity collected during the day in batteries to be used
at night when solar energy cannot be collected.
14.
E
The following equation is the combustion reaction for fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, crude oil). Only
glucose is not produced in this reaction; the other four choices are produced in the reaction.
15.
D
The shift from wood to coal as the world's primary energy source is the change that occurred, not a
cause
of the change.
