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Requirements July 1976 until September 1987

1. Make a solar energy box. Use it to show how solar energy can be collected, and how loss of heat can be controlled. Keep records of your investigations. Show these records in explaining how the box collects solar energy and how heat loss is controlled.

2. In your own words, without notes, explain: energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, power, engine, useful work, exhaust, engine efficiency, pollution.

3. Draw a diagram showing how a gasoline, diesel, or other type engine converts energy in a fuel into mechanical energy. Label your diagram to show the energy conversions that take place.

4. Find out about and write down in a notebook 10 different examples of energy waste going on in your home or town. Suggest in each case possible ways to reduce this waste. Find and write down in your notebook about five examples you observed of pollution from energy use. Suggest in each case how this pollution might be reduced.

5. Show two articles from a current newspaper or magazine about the use or conservation of energy. Tell about each.

6. Draw a color chart chow the earth's known and estimated quantities of nonrenewable obtainable energy materials. Show how long each of these is expected to last. (Based on the best estimate available.) Tell where you got your information.

7. *Do the following:

(a) Tell how our lives in the United States might be affected if energy supplies became less than enough to meet our present demands.

(b) Tell what is being done to make any three of the following produce larger amounts of useful energy economically (Include possible pollution and safety problems): nuclear-fission generators, nuclear-fusion generators, the wind, the sun, the oceans, heat from inside the earth.

8. Give a talk titles "Energy, Why We Need To Conserve It." Use all materials from requirements 1 through 6. Choose as your audience your counselor, a den of Cub Scouts, or a group approved by your counselor.

*Notes may be used.