Energy for the Future

President Obama has helped scientists and futurists to focus public awareness on the need for alternative, renewable energy systems. In Energy for the Future, students will learn about imaginative ways that are already in place for using wind, wave, solar, nuclear, electric, and biomass energy. Three percent of all energy currently being generated in the U.S. comes from biomass such as corn, trees, sugarcane, sawdust, grass clippings, peanut shells, and methane from animal droppings. Photographs, fact boxes, and clear explanations will give students hope for the future and educate them about what is yet to be accomplished.