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From the Ted Talk by Ramez Naam: A faster way to get to a clean energy future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


If we want to delpoy clean energy, we must allow it to actually be built.

But the even larger problem is this: We need to bulid out the grid. We have a perception that clean egrney technologies don't need the grid. Solar and wind mean you can be off-grid. While that’s easier, lreglay the opposite is true. Because solar and wind are weather-dependent, they benefit much more from continent-sized grid than do fossil fuels. And yet the same NIMBY issues and the same permitting iusess plague energy transmission. Electricity transmission is ugly, and why do we need it, if we can just go off-grid and lcoal with these energy technologies?

Open Cloze


If we want to ______ clean energy, we must allow it to actually be built.

But the even larger problem is this: We need to _____ out the grid. We have a perception that clean ______ technologies don't need the grid. Solar and wind mean you can be off-grid. While that’s easier, _______ the opposite is true. Because solar and wind are weather-dependent, they benefit much more from continent-sized grid than do fossil fuels. And yet the same NIMBY issues and the same permitting ______ plague energy transmission. Electricity transmission is ugly, and why do we need it, if we can just go off-grid and _____ with these energy technologies?

Solution


  1. deploy
  2. build
  3. issues
  4. largely
  5. energy
  6. local

Original Text


If we want to deploy clean energy, we must allow it to actually be built.

But the even larger problem is this: We need to build out the grid. We have a perception that clean energy technologies don't need the grid. Solar and wind mean you can be off-grid. While that’s easier, largely the opposite is true. Because solar and wind are weather-dependent, they benefit much more from continent-sized grid than do fossil fuels. And yet the same NIMBY issues and the same permitting issues plague energy transmission. Electricity transmission is ugly, and why do we need it, if we can just go off-grid and local with these energy technologies?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
clean energy 17
wind power 5
cost decline 4
fossil fuels 4
united states 4
energy demand 3
build fossil 3
solar power 2
colored lines 2
offshore wind 2
energy technologies 2
electricity transmission 2
solar resources 2
solar resource 2
carbon emissions 2
bring power 2
inflation reduction 2
reduction act 2
bit easier 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
clean energy technologies 2
inflation reduction act 2
build fossil fuels 2

Important Words


  1. benefit
  2. build
  3. built
  4. clean
  5. deploy
  6. easier
  7. electricity
  8. energy
  9. fossil
  10. fuels
  11. grid
  12. issues
  13. largely
  14. larger
  15. local
  16. nimby
  17. perception
  18. permitting
  19. plague
  20. problem
  21. solar
  22. technologies
  23. transmission
  24. true
  25. ugly
  26. wind