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(News: Female Speaker) This just in…Clemson University energy costs
are rising. We have a team live on the scene.
I’m here at the central distribution station, where the scene earlier today can only be
described as electrifying.
What started out as coal in a mine in West Virginia is now the same electricity…
(Male Speaker) Hello?
Hey, what’s up man?
Yeah, I’ll be right down.
(humming)
(music playing)
(MC EnerG) Yo, am I seeing what I’m seeing?
This must be a glitch.
Before you leave you always turn off
your light switch.
That’s right,
you know me.
I’m MC EnerG
I’m’wna to show you how this light
right here
came to be.
It’s electricity
and you’ll see
that it ain’t free.
It doesn’t magically appear
as if from a genie.
It’s from the Duke Energy
plant on Lake Keowee,
some even from the nuclear power station
of Oconee.
What’s up you didn’t know ?
Am I just wasting my breath?
There’s a lot of work done
before it lands on your desk.
take a deep breath,
you’re coming with me son,
I’m’wna going to show you where your
electricity comes from.
(Female Singer)
You’re invisible to me
Oh
Where are you at before you come out of my wall?
Are you mystically installed
inside my residential hall?
No ohh ohh.
Thank you, Duke Energy,
for all the mining,
and for converting it to energy.
You’re reason that the light in my dorm
is shining.
(MC EnerG)
What you need to know
is that there’s two main forms
of how
Duke makes electricity
that is used to power your dorm.
The first is from coal
and it is very deep, deep down below
and comes from the ground in West Virginia but no
it’s not grown.
A couple million years ago
Dinos walked the Earth
and when they died,
Them and plants were buried way under the turf.
and you might be perplexed,
who’s responsible for powering your room?
A T-Rex.
The next is nuclear power
and its considerably complex.
I’m not doubting your intellect,
but it’ll be dumbed down in some respects.
Uranium is mined
out in Utah
where it comes out the ground as ore.
It’s then enriched,
put into rods,
and then shipped off again once more.
The rods are put into a reactor
and nuclear fission begins to occur.
This is where the atoms start splitting.
Are you with me?
Just being sure.
The water is heated by this,
so of course it turns into steam
which spins the magnets in the generator
in order to form
electricity that you see.
(Female Singer)
You’re invisible to me,
Oh
Where are you at before
you come out of my wall?
Are you mystically installed
inside my residential hall?
No ohh ohh.
Thank you, Duke Energy
for all the mining,
and for converting it to energy.
You’re reason that the light in my dorm
is shining.
(MC EnerG)
So when it leaves the power plant
it flows through overhead power lines
to the city of Central’s distribution center.
Then from there it winds,
all the way to the university,
to right beside Hendrix,
the campus distribution center
you see it every time you go to the Pit.
The voltage gets decreased then
underground it goes
to the breaker box
at the bottom of your residential hall
it will flow then up the wall
to your room
so when you’re walking through your doors,
if you need some light there is no need for alohomora.
So how can you help?
What can you be doing?
Turn off the lights off when you leave,
that should be a shoe-in.
Change your bulbs to CFL.
Put the computer to sleep.
If you do all of these
you will be just like EnerG.
Clemson’s got a little program
and you might have heard of it.
It’s called the Solid Green Initiative
and you can help us bit by bit.
So I permit you
to commit yourself
to saving energy
‘cuz if you don’t,
the person you will answer to
(Female Singer)
You’re invisible to me
Where are you at before you come out of my wall?
Are you mystically installed
inside my residential hall?
No ohh ohh.
Thank you Duke Energy,
for all the mining,
before converting it to energy.
You’re reason that the light in my dorm
is shining.
(Group singing)
You’re invisible to me
oh
Where are you at before you come out of my wall?
Are you mystically installed
inside my residential hall?
No ohh ohh.
Thank you Duke Energy,
for all the mining,
before converting it to energy.
You’re reason that the light in my dorm
is shining.
(Female Speaker) That was beautiful!
(Laughter!)
(Female Speaker) That’s so great!