Electricity Facts
Pig manure is currently being used in Alberta for biomass power generation at the Iron Creek Hutterite Colony.
One compact fluorescent bulb will last as long as 13 incandescent light bulbs.
Almost half of Alberta’s electricity capacity is generated with coal and almost 40 percent from natural gas. Alberta also uses water, wind and biomass as forms of electricity generation.
If you traveled as fast as electricity, (about 300,000 kilometres per second – the speed of light), you could go around the world 8 times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch.
With 200 megawatts of wind power capacity, enough to supply 200,000 homes with electricity for an entire year, Alberta is now Canada’s number one in wind power capacity.
Compared to other Canadian provinces, Alberta is ranked among the most affordable places to own a home, when mortgage payments, property taxes AND UTILITIES are taken into account.
The Alberta government has a contract to purchase 90 per cent of its electricity requirements from green power starting in 2005.
The Alberta legislature building has a solar power system that can provide enough power to light 70 compact fluorescent light bulbs for approximately 5 hours/day, or almost half the power used by an average household in a year.
Much of the electrical terminology used today comes from the names of the scientists who made electric breakthroughs, such as: James Watt, Allessandro Volta, Andre Marie Ampere, and James Joule.
If you had a light bulb on the moon connected to a switch in your bedroom, it would take only 1.26 seconds for that bulb to light up, 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles) away.
One compact fluorescent bulb will last as long as 13 incandescent light bulbs.
Almost half of Alberta’s electricity capacity is generated with coal and almost 40 percent from natural gas. Alberta also uses water, wind and biomass as forms of electricity generation.
If you traveled as fast as electricity, (about 300,000 kilometres per second – the speed of light), you could go around the world 8 times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch.
With 200 megawatts of wind power capacity, enough to supply 200,000 homes with electricity for an entire year, Alberta is now Canada’s number one in wind power capacity.
Compared to other Canadian provinces, Alberta is ranked among the most affordable places to own a home, when mortgage payments, property taxes AND UTILITIES are taken into account.
The Alberta government has a contract to purchase 90 per cent of its electricity requirements from green power starting in 2005.
The Alberta legislature building has a solar power system that can provide enough power to light 70 compact fluorescent light bulbs for approximately 5 hours/day, or almost half the power used by an average household in a year.
Much of the electrical terminology used today comes from the names of the scientists who made electric breakthroughs, such as: James Watt, Allessandro Volta, Andre Marie Ampere, and James Joule.
If you had a light bulb on the moon connected to a switch in your bedroom, it would take only 1.26 seconds for that bulb to light up, 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles) away.
