The site is presented in English and Dutch. This website was designed to help people learn about energy, energy sources, and energy use. Many of our current energy sources will be exhausted in the next century, and human beings must find new forms of energy. There is also a need to find alternative sources of energy that are less polluting. The site begins with a section on traditional energy sources, explaining how power is currently generated by such means as coal, oil, natural gas, wind, hydroelectric plants, and nuclear fission.
Flash animations illustrate the text.
The next section explains future energy sources, specifically fusion and fuel cells. There is an energy dictionary and a timeline showing the development of energy sources. Visitors are encouraged to observe how these forms of energy generation are built on the forms of the past, and to envision new forms of energy for the future. The website was created for Thinkquest 2000, an international student competition, by three teenagers from the Netherlands, the USA, and Singapore. This is a lesson resource for middle school science teachers, homeschool parents, and students.