Contributor
Renneboog, Richard, editor.
ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Imprint2021
Descriptionxvii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Note:Aerobic cellular respiration -- Air conditioning -- Alternative energy -- Ampère, André-Marie -- Animal power -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Batteries -- Biodiesel -- Biomass energy -- Boilers -- Breeder reactors -- Building envelope -- Capacity (Electricity) -- Cellulosic ethanol -- Chernobyl -- China syndrome (nuclear meltdown) -- Clausius, Rudolf -- Climate and weather -- Climate neutrality -- Coal and energy production -- Cogeneration and electricity generation -- Cold fusion -- Communication to garner support for energy development -- Computers and energy use -- Corn ethanol -- Dams -- Daylighting -- Demand-side management (DSM) -- Diesel, Rudolf -- Einstein, Albert -- Electric grids -- Electric potential -- Electricity energy transmission, Secondary -- Embodied energy -- Energy and power -- Energy conservation -- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 -- Energy intensity -- Energy payback -- Energy policy -- Energy poverty -- Energy storage techniques -- Enthalpy -- Entropy -- Exergy -- External combustion engine -- Faraday, Michael -- Flex-fuel vehicles (FFV) -- Flywheels -- Fossil fuels -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frequency -- Fuel cells and energy efficiency -- Fundamentals of energy -- Gas energy transmission -- Gasoline and other petroleum fuels -- Geothermal and hydrothermal energy -- Geothermal energy -- Gibbs, Josiah Willard -- Green buildings -- Green energy certification -- Greenhouse gases and human industry -- Heat transfer -- Helmholtz, Hermann von -- Hertz, Heinrich -- High-intensity light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and energy conservation -- Hybrid vehicles and energy security -- Industrial revolution and machine power -- Internal combustion engine -- Isotopes, Radioactive -- Isotopes, Stable -- Joule, James -- Kinetic energy -- Liquid fluid energy transmission -- Mechanical energy transmission -- Natural energy flows -- Natural gas -- Nuclear power plants -- Ocean current energy -- Ocean thermal energy conversion -- Ocean wave energy -- Oil and petroleum -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Otto, Nikolaus -- Photovoltaics (PVs) -- Potential energy -- Propane -- Rankine, William -- Renewable energy -- Renewable energy resources -- Rotational power -- Sadi Carnot -- Solar concentrator -- Solar energy -- Solar thermal systems -- Steam and steam turbines -- Steam engines -- Stirling, Robert -- Sugar beet ethanol -- Sugarcane ethanol -- Sun day -- Tesla, Nikola -- Thermochemistry -- Thermodynamics and energy -- Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) -- Thomson, Joseph John -- Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) -- Tidal power generation -- Units of measurement -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- Volta, Alessandro -- Waste heat recovery -- Watt, James -- Watt -- Wave properties -- Wavelength -- Westinghouse, George -- Wheat ethanol -- Willis Carrier and air conditioning -- Wind energy -- Work and energy -- Work-energy theorem.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-404) and index.
Note:Energy, the capacity of an object to do work, is one of the most fundamental principles, affecting nearly every aspect of life on this planet. This volume in the Principles of Science series provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to energy, covering basic concepts, possibilities, ethical issues, and potential consequences of energy. -- Provided by publisher.
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