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Principles of Energy

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction




Contributors




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




Glossary




Organizations