Energy History
the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
the energy that it possesses due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
What is a fossil fuel?
the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
What is energy efficiency?
Main element used as nuclear fuel in today's nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?
Main energy source in the US before 1870.
What is biomass?
the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.
What is potential energy?
the use of a heat engine or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time.
What is cogeneration?
an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers.
What is the electrical grid?
a theoretical form of power generation in which energy will be combining Hydrogen atoms.
What is fusion power?
Main US energy source from 1870-1940.
What is coal?
a form of energy related to the structural arrangement of atoms or molecules.
What is chemical energy?
a filtration device that removes fine particles, like dust and smoke, from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge minimally impeding the flow of gases through the unit.
What is an electrostatic precipitator?
generates solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area. Electricity is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat, which drives a heat engine (usually a steam turbine) connected to an electrical power generator
What is Concentrated solar power?
Nuclear power plant that nearly melted down after the Japanese tsunami in 2011.
What is Fukushima?
Main US energy source from 1940-today.
What is petroleum/oil?
the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium
What is radiation?
Device in which a polluted gas stream is brought into contact with a scrubbing liquid, by spraying it with the liquid, by forcing it through a pool of liquid, or by some other contact method, so as to remove the pollutants.
What is a wet scrubber?
Car combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain). The presence of the electric powertrain is intended to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle or better performance.
What is a hybrid electric vehicle?
the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States"
What is proliferation?
Most rapidly growing fossil fuel in use today.
What is natural gas?
Process to powers the Sun.
an exhaust emission control device that converts toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction (an oxidation and a reduction reaction).
What is a catalytic converter?
Energy source that does NOT originate from the Sun.
What is geothermal or tidal?
a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus. It is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. As of 2016, it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.[1]
What is a tokamak?