Title: Discuss the United States’ history of energy as it relates to modern day sources.
Course: Energy and Power (20101-36) > Section: Exploring the History of the Energy Industry

Discussion should include

- the first coal deposits in the United States
- the steam engine as an energy source
- oil and gasoline usage in transportation
- creation of the Federal Power Commission (FPC)
- the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
- the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975
- the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
- the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
- the Paris Agreement of 2016.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What versatile source of energy was used for construction in colonial days, that was also used as a weapon in times of emergency?
- At what time did coal replace wood to power locomotive engines?
- What powered lamps before the widespread use of electricity?
- What U.S. Bureau was created in response to the underground explosion at the Monongah Mine in West Virginia?
- What state has become the world’s largest geothermal provider through its acquisition of Magma Power?