Unit 35 - Discussing Energy issues
Cumhachd is Connadh "Energy and Fuel"
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In transcript 2, Ceitidh and Anna are discussing renewable energy and the future of the world. If you listen to any of the news programmes, or Programme Choinnich, on Radio nan Gàidheal you may have heard people debating this topic, here’s some useful vocabulary that you may have heard:
- cumhachd
- energy, power
- niùclasach
- nuclear
- an dealan
- electricity
- cumhachd an dealain
- electricity, electrical power
- mar eisimpleir
- for example
- a’ truailleadh
- polluting
- blàthachadh na cruinne
- global warming
- connadh fosail
- fossil fuel[s]
- tuath-gaoithe
- wind farm
- cumhachd nan tonn
- wave energy [lit. energy of the waves]
- cumhachd na grèine
- solar power
- blàthachadh na cruinne
- global warming
- carbon dà-ogsaid
- carbon dioxide
