List of energy topics
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-- 19:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)This is a list of energy topics which identifies articles and categories that relate to energy. In general, the energy refers to "the potential for causing changes". The word is used in several different contexts. The engineering use has a precise, well-defined meaning, whilst many non-technical uses often do not. In science and physics, it's a physical system's capacity to do work and this page contains items that are related to that defintion.
Contents
- 1 Energy infrastructure
- 2 Energy applications
- 3 General energy topics
- 4 Energy technology inventors
- 5 Energy culture
- 6 Energy Policies - National and International
- 7 Energy Use - National and International
- 8 Energy unit terms
- 9 Energy companies
- 10 Non-profit organizations
- 11 Industry associations
- 12 Media
- 13 Energy-Related Categories
- 14 See also
Energy infrastructure
See especially and for a large number of conventional energy related topics.
- Energy storage
- Recuperated Energy
- Electricity generation
- Electricity retailing
- Grid energy storage
- Liquified natural gas
- Microwave power transmission
- Power plant
- Power supply
- power transmission
- Underground power station
Energy applications
General energy topics
- Energy
- Electricity
- Exergy
- Blue energy
- Green electricity
- Orders of magnitude (energy) - list describes various energy levels between 10−31 joules and 1070 joules
- Thermodynamics
- Perpetual motion
- Heat
Energy technology inventors
- Alessandro Volta
- Charles Kettering
- Farrington Daniels - solar energy
- Georges Leclanché - battery
- John Frederic Daniell -
- Rudolf Diesel -compression ignition internal combustion engine
- Georges Imbert - Wood gas
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Moritz von Jacobi
- Nikolaus Otto - internal combustion engine
- Viktor Schauberger - Implosion
- Robert Stirling - Stirling engine (external combustion)
- Nikola Tesla
- James Watt - steam engine with separate condensor
Energy culture
- Biosphere
- Ecology
- Energy balance
- Energy conservation - includes tips for consumers
- Conservation of energy
- Earth Day
- Energy development - Ongoing effort to provide abundant and accessible energy, through knowledge, skills and constructions.
- Energy economics
- Energy resources
- Free energy suppression
- Future energy development - Provides a general overview of future energy development.
- History of perpetual motion machines
- Hubbert peak theory, also known as peak oil - the theory that world oil production will peak (or has peaked), and will then rapidly decline, with a corresponding rapid increase in prices.
- Renewable energy development
Issues
- Environmental concerns with electricity generation
- Soft energy path - an energy use and development strategy delineated and promoted by some energy experts and activists
- Nuclear power phase-out - a policy to abandon nuclear power.
Energy Policies - National and International
- Energy policy - Introductory article
- Energy Tax Act - United States energy-related legislation
- Energy policy of the United Kingdom
Energy Use - National and International
Energy unit terms
- Barrel of oil equivalent
- British thermal unit
- Calorie
- Current_solar_income - the amount of solar energy that falls as sunlight
- Direct current
- Electronvolt - (symbol: eV) is the amount of energy gained by a single unbound electron when it falls through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt
- Energy conversion - process of converting energy from one form to another
- Enthalpy
- Erg - (symbol "erg") unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units
- EU energy label
- Fill factor - defined as the ratio of the maximum power (Vmp x Jmp) divided by the short-circuit current (Isc) and open-circuit voltage (Voc) in light current density - voltage (J-V) characteristics of solar cells.
- Foot-pound - (symbol ft·lbf or ft·lbf) is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of mechanical work, or energy, although in scientific fields one commonly uses the equivalent metric unit of the joule (J). There are approximately 1.356 J/(ft·lbf).
- Francis turbine the most common water turbine in use today
- Gibbs free energy
- Gigaton - Metric Unit of mass, equal to 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) Metric tons, 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) kilograms
- Gray (unit) - (symbol: Gy), is the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation. One gray is the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter. One gray equals 100 rad, an older unit.
- Heat
- Internal energy - (abbreviated E or U) is the total kinetic energy due to the motion of molecules (translational, rotational, vibrational) and the total potential energy associated with the vibrational and electric energy of atoms within molecules.
- Ionization energy - the (IE) of an atom is the energy required to strip it of an electron.
- Joule - (symbol J, also called newton meter, watt second, or coulomb volt)
- Kilowatt-hour - (symbol: kW·h) corresponds to one kilowatt (kW) of power being used over a period of one hour.
- Kinetic energy
- Mass driver
- Mass-energy equivalence - where mass has an energy equivalence, and energy has a mass equivalence
- Net energy gain
- Photoelectric effect
- Potential energy - (U, or Ep), a kind of scalar potential, is energy by virtue of matter being able to move to a lower-energy state, releasing energy in some form
- Power beaming - Moving energy from one place to another through "empty space" (or air)
- Power factor - of an AC electric power system is defined as the ratio of the real power to the apparent power.
- Primary_energy - Energy contained in raw fuels and any other forms of energy received by a system as input to the system.
- Radiant energy - energy that is transported by waves
- Rotational energy - An object's rotational energy or angular kinetic energy is part of its total kinetic energy
- Solar radiation - radiant energy emitted by the sun, particularly electromagnetic energy
- Therm - (symbol thm) a non-SI unit of heat energy. It is approximately the heat equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas. In the US gas industry it is defined as exactly 100,000 BTU59°F or 105.4804 megajoules.
- Ton of oil equivalent
- TPE - Ton Petroleum Equivalent, 45.217 GJ, see ton of oil equivalent
Energy companies
- Exxon Mobil
- Enercon GmbH - Company based in Germany that operates in the wind turbine industry. One of the biggest producers in the world.
- Saudi Aramco
- Sasol
- United States Enrichment Corporation - contracts with the United States Department of Energy to produce enriched uranium.
Non-profit organizations
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- [IEA Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS) Programme]
- [ASPO - Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas]
Industry associations
- OPEC - Organization of Petroleum-exporting Countries
Media
Books
Renewable Energy News Sources
A listing of agencies that regularly report on clean, renewable energy developments.(in alphabetical order)
- [OSEN News] - Daily coverage by the Open Source Energy Network. Average volume: 5 per day. (Launching Oct. 22, 2005)
- [Pure Eneryg Systems News] - Exclusive news stories and press releases regarding clean, renewable, inexhaustible energy-source technology. Average volume: three per week.
- [Renewable Energy Access] - Mainstream renewable energy news. Average volume: Ten per day.
- [Odysen] - Mainstream clean energy news. Includes tabulation of grid outages. Average volume: six per day.
- [This Week in Free Energy(tm)] - Weekly energy show (7 min) in tradition of Paul Harvey.
Energy-Related Categories
By country
See also
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