The 2022 Energy Quiz

The 2022 Energy Quiz

Are you an energy genius? It's hard to tell whether or not Americans are aware at all of the energy that controls their lives. Do you know what the biggest power plant in the United States is, shown here? Hint: it isn't Grand ... [+] Coulee Dam. Europeans are paying sky-high prices for natural gas. Asia spot prices for LNG increased an order of magnitude. Protracted calm spells in places like the North Sea have curtailed the output of large wind farms essential to their country's new energy mix. The average price of regular gasoline doubled in America. Supply chains have been interrupted, and many manufacturers are decided to abandon much of their Christmas stock as it could not arrive on time to be paid, threatening the anticipated holiday economic boom. Extreme weather continues to cause grid problems across the world and global carbon emissions continued to grow. Gearing up new sources of energy takes a while, usually years. The pandemic depressed the output from oil&gas wells, coal mining and planned new energy facilities, and the rapid econonic recovery from the pandemic caught the world by surprise. Given this new reality, the following energy quiz should be revealing. The answers