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From the Ted Talk by Dan Kwartler: Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Whether they use panels or mirrors, isnudiatrl solar farms are often easy to fit into exiisntg energy infrastructure. However, getting their electricity beyond local power grids is much more difficult. Some countries are working on ways to ceconnt electric girds across the globe. And many farm store energy in massive batteries, or convert their electricity into clean gas that can be used later. But right now, these techniques are still too expensive and inefficient to rely on. Worse still, industrial rleweebnas can share some of the same peobrlms as fossil fuels, relying on destructive mining ooiarpnets and carbon-emitting global supply chains.

Open Cloze


Whether they use panels or mirrors, __________ solar farms are often easy to fit into ________ energy infrastructure. However, getting their electricity beyond local power grids is much more difficult. Some countries are working on ways to _______ electric _____ across the globe. And many farm store energy in massive batteries, or convert their electricity into clean gas that can be used later. But right now, these techniques are still too expensive and inefficient to rely on. Worse still, industrial __________ can share some of the same ________ as fossil fuels, relying on destructive mining __________ and carbon-emitting global supply chains.

Solution


  1. connect
  2. existing
  3. problems
  4. operations
  5. industrial
  6. renewables
  7. grids

Original Text


Whether they use panels or mirrors, industrial solar farms are often easy to fit into existing energy infrastructure. However, getting their electricity beyond local power grids is much more difficult. Some countries are working on ways to connect electric grids across the globe. And many farm store energy in massive batteries, or convert their electricity into clean gas that can be used later. But right now, these techniques are still too expensive and inefficient to rely on. Worse still, industrial renewables can share some of the same problems as fossil fuels, relying on destructive mining operations and carbon-emitting global supply chains.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
solar panels 7
solar farms 5
global supply 2
supply chains 2
solar power 2
industrial solar 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
global supply chains 2
industrial solar farms 2

Important Words


  1. batteries
  2. chains
  3. clean
  4. connect
  5. convert
  6. countries
  7. destructive
  8. difficult
  9. easy
  10. electric
  11. electricity
  12. energy
  13. existing
  14. expensive
  15. farm
  16. farms
  17. fit
  18. fossil
  19. fuels
  20. gas
  21. global
  22. globe
  23. grids
  24. industrial
  25. inefficient
  26. infrastructure
  27. local
  28. massive
  29. mining
  30. mirrors
  31. operations
  32. panels
  33. power
  34. problems
  35. rely
  36. relying
  37. renewables
  38. share
  39. solar
  40. store
  41. supply
  42. techniques
  43. ways
  44. working
  45. worse