By IndyKids Staff In late January this year, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced that he planned to sell the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to private companies. Even though PREPA is the largest public utility company in the US, serving 3.3 million people, the power grid is 45 years old and badly …
By Amzad Ali, Age 14 Finland is located in Northern Europe, and 76 percent of the country’s land is wooded. Finland’s forestry industry creates energy by burning wood, which is also known as biomass. Burning wood releases carbon dioxide, which is harmful to the environment, but it can be balanced with a healthy forestry …
By CRISTEN BALDWIN AND TORY COOPER-JONES, age 9 Today, Denmark gets 40% of its power from wind, and the country has a big goal of not using any fossil fuels by the year 2050. The country also has a short-term goal to generate 50% of its power from wind during the next 10 years. …
By Sabat Ali, Age 11 Iceland has become a world leader in the use of geothermal power and other forms of clean, renewable energy. Its location above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what makes the island a good candidate for geothermal power. Geothermal power is energy generated by heat that is stored in the …
By Sophie J Paiva, Age 9, Naasir M Favors, Age 10, and IndyKids Staff In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings reported in the United States. According to a Quinnipiac University poll in November last year, 95 percent of American voters support universal background checks for gun purchases, and 65 percent support a nationwide …
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By Marianne Nacanaynay, age 15 Kauai is the oldest of the Hawaiian islands, and almost 50 percent of its energy comes from renewable sources, including solar power. During the day, Kauai produces more than enough energy from solar and keeps the excess for evenings and night time by using batteries for storage. Like Puerto Rico, …
By Tory Cooper-Jones and Cristen Baldwin, Ages 9 Ontario, California moves towards clean energy by using a solar powered battery farm by Tesla instead of peaker plants. A massive gas leak at Aliso Canyon’s peaker plant forced thousands of nearby residents to evacuate from their homes in 2015. Peaker plants are power plants that …
By Abiyana E. Moore, Age 8 Ta’u is a very small island that is part of American Samoa. The island is located in a warm region in the South Pacific Ocean. Because of Ta’u’s warm climate and exposure to sun rays the island is an ideal candidate for solar panels, a natural form of …
By Abiyana E. Moore, Age 8 The island of Puerto Rico was struck by a category 4 hurricane in September of 2017, which destroyed the country’s power grid and left the 90% of the population without electricity. Four months later, one-third of the island is still without electricity. The old system relied on importing …
By IndyKids Staff On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), voted to roll back Obama-era rules concerning net neutrality. Net neutrality is the idea that all data on the internet must be treated equally. It’s also known as the “open internet.” The old rules prohibited internet service providers (ISPs) from slowing down users’ …
