Awirs (Belgium) part 3
The issue of the cost of transportation of the pellets used in in Les Awirs A few comments about solar energy.
Electrabel operates biomass power stations, fossil fuel power stations
and nuclear power stations. What is the role of each type of power
station in the electricity supply in a country like Belgium.
Does the Power Station iAbout the risk of explosion in a wood pellets power station.
The engineer’s idea of the ideal source of energy: nuclear fusion.
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Gap-fill exercise
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Gap-fill exercise
Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
Videocasts 7-8-9-10
Multiple choice quiz
- At Les Awirs power station,
- They purchase the wood pellets themselves
- They have suppliers who do that job for them
- They buy trees and make pellets themselves
- They mostly use olive pits, so they use very little wood pellets
- At Les Awirs power station,
- They prefer to have stable prices for their pellet supplies
- They buy pellets when they are at the cheapest
- They mostly buy and use olive pits
- You have understood that
- Using biomas they don’t produce any CO2
- They produce a quantity of CO2 that is equivalent to the CO2 that has been absorbed through photosynthesis by the trees used to make the pellets they burn
- They produce the quantity of CO2 that is tolerated by the EC
- For the engineer, the source of energy of the future is
- Nuclear fusion
- Wind energy
- Biomass
- Fossile fuels
- Nuclear fission
- The production of electricity, high voltage distribution and low voltage distribution is assured by
- Electrabel
- two different companies
- three different companies
- one and the same company