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In physics, energy (from the Greek ἐνέργεια - energeia, "activity, operation", from ἐνεργός - energos, "active, working") is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of objects and...
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Energy storage media are matter that store some form of energy that can be drawn upon at a later time to perform some useful operation. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator. All forms of energy are either potential energy ...
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| Energy level |
A quantum mechanical system or particle that is bound, confined spatially, can only take on certain discrete values of energy, as opposed to classical particles, which can have any energy. These values are called energy levels. The term is most...
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| Energy-efficient landscaping |
Energy-efficient landscaping is a type of landscaping designed for the purpose of conserving energy. There is a distinction between the embedded energy of materials and constructing the landscape, and the energy consumed by the maintenance and...
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| Energy | Energy, Illinois |
Energy is a village in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,175 at the 2000 census.
Energy is located at 37°46′21″N 89°1′32″W / 37.7725°N 89.02556°W / 37.7725; -89.02556 (37.772398, -89.025519).
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| Energy economics |
Energy economics is a broad scientific subject area which includes topics related to supply and use of energy in societies. Due to diversity of issues and methods applied and shared with a number of academic disciplines, energy economics does not...
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An energy crisis is any great bottleneck (or price rise) in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In popular literature though, it often refers to one of the energy sources used at a certain time and place.
Market failure is possible when...
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In ecology,energy flow (calorific flow) refers to the flow of energy through a food chain.
In in an ecosystem, ecologists seek to quantify the relative importance of different component species and feeding relationships.
A general energy flow...
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Energy drinks are soft drinks advertised as providing energy to improve physical activity of the drinker, as compared to a typical drink. Rather than providing food energy (as measured in calories), these drinks are designed to increase a user's...
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ENERGY STAR is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products. It was first created as a United States government program in 1992, but Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union have also adopted the...
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In physics and engineering, including mechanical and electrical engineering, energy efficiency is a dimensionless number, with a value between 0 and 1 or, when multiplied by 100, is given as a percentage. The energy efficiency of a process, denoted...
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Energy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services....
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An energy bar is a bar-shaped snack food usually marketed to athletes or other physically active people who wish to maintain their calorific needs in light of their strenuous physical activity. Some brands of energy bars are also sold as dietary...
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| Energy value of coal |
The energy value of coal, or the fuel content, is the amount of potential energy in coal that can be converted into actual heating ability. The value can be calculated and compared with different grades of coal or even other materials. Materials of...
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Energy development is the effort to provide sufficient primary energy sources and secondary energy forms to fulfill civilization's needs. It involves both installation of established technologies and research and development to create new energy...
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| Energy spectrum |
An energy spectrum is a distribution energy among a large assemblage of particles. It is a statistical representation of the wave energy as a function of the wave frequency, and an empirical estimator of the spectral function. For any given value of...
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| Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy |
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Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) is an analytical technique used for the elemental analysis or chemical characterization of a sample. It is one of the variants of XRF. As a type of spectroscopy, it relies on the investigation of a sample...
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| Energy scale |
In physics, energy scale is a particular value of energy determined with the precision of one order (or a few orders) of magnitude. Different phenomena occur at different energy scales. The typical energies of all phenomena that occur at the same...
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| Energy carrier |
An energy carrier is a substance or phenomenon that can be used to produce mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes (ISO 13600).
It is any system or substance that contains energy for conversion as usable energy later or...
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| Energy Plaza |
Energy Plaza is a skyscraper located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) on the north side of Thanks-Giving Square at 1601 Bryan Street. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the building is 629 ft (129 m) and 49 stories tall,...
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| Energy blast |
An energy blast is a collection of power in the form of a projectile that has destructive effects when it strikes an object. It is a very common type of attack in various forms of fiction, although the phenomenon can occur in real life as well. For...
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| Energy amplifier |
In nuclear physics, an energy amplifier is a novel type of nuclear power reactor, a subcritical reactor, in which an energetic particle beam is used to stimulate a reaction, which in turn releases enough energy to power the particle accelerator and...
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| Energy-Maneuverability theory |
Energy Maneuverability theory is a model of aircraft performance. It was promulgated by Col. John Boyd, and is useful in describing an aircraft's performance as the total of kinetic and potential energies or aircraft specific energy. It relates the...
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| Energy Task Force | National Energy Policy Development Group |
The Energy Task Force, officially the National Energy Policy Development Group, was a task force created by then-president George W. Bush during his second week in office. Vice President Dick Cheney was named chairman. This group was intended to ...
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| EnergyMech |
EnergyMech is an IRC bot written in the C programming language and distributed according to the GNU General Public License.
History before 1997 is unclear but the current version was branched off the original EnergyMech written by Polygon....
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| Energy Policy Act of 1992 |
The Energy Policy Act (102th Congress H.R.776.ENR, abbreviated as EPACT92) is a United States government act. It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management (Title I), natural gas imports and...
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| EnergyAustralia Stadium |
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Newcastle International Sports Centre (sponsor name: EnergyAustralia Stadium) is a multi-purpose sports stadium located in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the home ground of the Newcastle Knights (National Rugby League) and the...
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Energy accounting is a system used within industry, where measuring and analyzing the energy consumption of different activities is done to improve energy efficiency. In a wider sense, energy accounting is used to describe thermodynamic aspects of...
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| Energy psychology |
Energy psychology is not a specific field of study but rather refers generally to a collection of techniques and therapies that are often classed as alternative medicine.
Energy psychology focuses on the interrelationship of emotion, behavior,...
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The energy tower is a device for producing electrical power. The brainchild of Dr. Phillip Carlson, expanded by Professor Dan Zaslavsky from the Technion. Energy towers spray water on hot air at the top of the tower, making the cooled air fall...
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| Energy harvesting |
Energy harvesting (also known as power harvesting or energy scavenging) is the process by which energy is derived from external sources (e.g., solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, salinity gradients, and kinetic energy), captured, and stored....
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In physics, the term energy describes the amount of work which may potentially be done by forces within a system. Changes in energy in systems can only be accomplished by adding or subtracting energy from them, as energy is a quantity which is...
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| Energy charge |
From Stryer: "Many reactions in metabolism are controlled by the energy status of the cell. One index of the energy status is the energy charge, which is proportional to the mole fraction of ATP plus half the mole fraction of ADP, given that ATP...
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| Energy policy |
Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (often governmental) has decided to address issues of energy development including energy production, distribution and consumption. The attributes of energy policy may include legislation,...
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| Energy transfer |
Energy transfer is the transfer of energy from one body to another.
There are a few main ways that energy transfer occurs:
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| Energy management system |
An energy management system (EMS) is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric utility grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the generation and/or transmission system. The monitor and control functions are...
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| Energy demand management |
Energy demand management, also known as demand side management (DSM), entails actions that influence the quantity or patterns of use of energy consumed by end users, such as actions targeting reduction of peak demand during periods when energy...
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Energy density is a term used for the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume, or per unit mass, depending on the context. The latter is more formally known as specific energy. In some cases it is obvious from...
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| Energy level splitting |
Energy level splitting occurs in physics when the degenerate energy levels of two or more states are split because of external fields or other effects. The term is most commonly used in quantum theory in reference to the electron configuration in...
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| Energy Tax Act |
The Energy Tax Act (Pub.L. 95-618, 92 Stat. 3174, enacted November 9, 1978) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress as part of the National Energy Act. The objective of this law was shift from oil and gas supply toward energy conservation; thus, to...
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| Energy Information Administration |
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The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is the independent statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA's mission is to provide policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses to...
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Energy intensity is a measure of the energy efficiency of a nation's economy. It is calculated as units of energy per unit of GDP.
Many factors influence an economy's overall energy intensity. It may reflect requirements for general standards of...
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| Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands |
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The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is the largest Dutch centre for study into energy. It is based in Petten and has about 700 employees (as of January 2008). The institute consists of 8 research areas:
300 employees work at the...
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| Energy dome |
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Energy Dome refers to the red terraced headgear first worn by Devo during their Freedom of Choice years. Other names include "power dome" and "flowerpot" (often used in a derogatory sense). Energy Domes have been a regular part of Devo's stage...
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| Energy-Quest |
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Energy-Quest (formerly The Hydrogen Expedition) is an organization that seeks to educate the public about the risks of an impending energy crisis due to the current worldwide dependence on fossil fuels and the benefits of energy conservation and the...
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| Energy-plus-house |
An energy-plus-house produces more energy from renewable energy sources, on average over the course of a year, than it imports from external sources. This is achieved using some combination microgeneration technology and low-energy building...
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| Energy ball |
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Energy balls are fictional bolts of concentrated electricity that form a kinetic sphere in the WB series Charmed. Energy balls can kill, stun, or irritate the target depending on what the user wishes to do to the target. Most beings can be destroyed...
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| Energy eigenstates |
The Energy eigenstates of a quantum system are the set of eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian operator corresponding to that system. This is equivalent to saying that the energy eigenstates are the solutions to the time-independent Schrödinger equation...
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| Energy Liger |
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The Energy Liger is a Lion-type Zoid, one of over 200 species of biomechanical lifeforms depicted by TOMY's Zoids model, toy, and media franchise.
Based on the Liger Zero, the Energy Liger was first released in 2003, and the Zoid plays a significant...
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| Energy and Environmental Research Center |
The Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) is a research facility at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The EERC is recognized internationally as a leader in clean energy research and development. It was...
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| Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-58) is a bill passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The act,...
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| Energy Policy Act of 2005 Vote |
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was voted on and passed twice by the Senate, once prior to conference committee, and once after. In both cases, there were numerous senators who voted against the bill. Below is a list of only those states that did not...
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In relativistic classical field theories of gravitation, particularly general relativity, an energy condition is one of various alternative conditions which can be applied to the matter content of the theory, when it is either not possible or...
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| EnergyAustralia |
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EnergyAustralia is a large Australian electricity supplier and retailer. A state government enterprise of the Government of New South Wales, it is primarily focussed on supplying the Sydney, Newcastle and Central Coast areas of New South Wales....
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| Energy production in Japan |
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Japan lacks significant domestic sources of fossil energy except coal and must import substantial amounts of crude oil, natural gas, and other energy resources, including uranium. In 1990 Japan's dependence on imports for primary energy stood at...
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| Energy inner product |
The energy inner product of two functions a(w,u), is, in simple cases, the inner product of the spatial derivative of w and u and, as such, is a bilinear form.
In the simple one-dimensional case with a domain of (a, b),
See also Lp space.
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| Energy–momentum relation | Energy-momentum relation |
In special relativity, the energy-momentum relation is a relation between the energy, momentum and the mass of a body:
where c is the speed of light, is total energy, is invariant mass, and is momentum.
For a body in its rest frame, the momentum...
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| Energy-momentum tensor |
The energy-momentum tensor (general relativity) is a tensor quantity that describes the matter-energy content of spacetime in Einstein's theory of general relativity, this theory of gravitation describing the matter-energy as curving the spacetime...
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| Energy Hog |
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Energy Hog is an energy efficiency campaign developed by the Ad Council and run by the Alliance to Save Energy that engages children and raises awareness of the benefits of energy efficiency. He is a villainous character who wastes energy in the...
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| Energy harvesting devices |
Energy harvesting devices generate electricity from their surroundings.
The history of energy harvesting dates back to the windmill and the waterwheel. People have searched for ways to store the energy from heat and vibrations for many decades....
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