Reading Across Discipline – 5

Instructor: Nusrat Tahsin

• What is Renewable Energy?
• Source of renewable energy
• Benefits
• Does it have any negative impact?

• challenges

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

Renewable energy: https://youtu.be/1kUE0BZtTRc

Link: Eco Detective

Nevada Solar one
1. How much of Germany’s electricity comes
from renewable sources? Around how much
comes from solar power?

2. How does this

compare with the
United States and
China?
1. Advantage of Solar Plant comparing to fossil or
other renewable source (paragraph D, E)

2. How is Nevada Solar One contributing US Power

supply? (paragraph F, G)

3. Future plan to reduce cost production (paragraph

H- K)
4. Wide use of solar energy in Germany (paragraph L - N)

5. Financial scheme (paragraph O - Q)

6. Comparison between USA and Germany (paragraph

R)
Solar One
NREL
STE
PV
Photovoltaic power
Sunny Freiburg
Solar Star
It is hard to imagine that a power plant could be so beautiful: 400 hectares of
gently curved mirrors lined up like canals of light. Parked facing the ground
overnight, they are starting to awaken—more than 182,000 of them—and follow
the sun
It is hard to imagine that a power plant could be so beautiful: 400 hectares of
gently curved mirrors lined up like canals of light. Parked facing the ground
overnight, they are starting to awaken—more than 182,000 of them—and follow
the sun

It is difficult to believe that a power plant could be so lovely: 400 hectares of

gently curved mirrors were arranged in canal-like rows. Over 182,000 of
them, which were overnight parked with their backs to the ground, are
beginning to rouse and turn toward the sun.
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