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A compact fluorescent lamp
Buildings constructed to the
German
Passivhaus
standard use 75% to 95% less energy for
space heating
and cooling than current new buildings in the
United States
?
Estonia
generates more than 90% of its electrical power from
oil shale
?
Crossing 4,000 km (2,500 miles), the
Druzhba pipeline
is the world's longest
oil pipeline
?
Coal
is ground to a powder before being burnt in
fossil fuel power plants
?
Compact fluorescent lamps
(pictured)
use about 1/4 of the energy of normal incandescent
light bulbs
, and pay for themselves after about 500 hours of use?
Nuclear power in France
produces 78% of all the country's
electricity
- more than in any other nation?
Positive lightning bolts
are typically six to ten times more powerful than normal lightning — and aircraft are not designed to withstand them?
Dark energy
is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space?
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