Dictionary of energy

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Other Authors Cleveland, Cutler J., Morris, Christopher G.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2006.
Edition1st ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080457239
9780080445786
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 502 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Dictionary of Energy
  • Special Essays on Important Energy Terms
  • acid rain (p. 4)
  • agriculture (p. 9)
  • alternative fuel (p. 14)
  • battery (p. 34)
  • biomass (p. 42)
  • blackout (p. 45)
  • boiler (p. 48)
  • bomb calorimeter (p. 49)
  • boom and bust (p. 50)
  • Calvin cycle (p. 61)
  • cap and trade (p. 62)
  • carbon (p. 64)
  • carbon sequestration (p. 67)
  • climate change (p. 79)
  • coal (p. 82)
  • combustion (p. 88)
  • DDT (p. 108)
  • distributed energy (p. 121)
  • ecological energetics (p. 129)
  • ecological footprint (p. 130)
  • elasticity (p. 134)
  • emergy (p. 139)
  • endotherm (p. 142)
  • energy (concept of) (p. 143)
  • energy conservation (p. 143)
  • energy-GDP ratio (p. 145)
  • energy transitions (p. 146)
  • entropy (p. 148)
  • environmental Kuznets curve (p. 150)
  • exergy (p. 156)
  • experience curve (p. 157)
  • fossil energy power plant (p. 172)
  • fuel cell (p. 176)
  • fuel economy (p. 177)
  • general circulation model (p. 184)
  • Ghawar (p. 188)
  • -Gibbs free energy (p. 189)
  • global warming (p. 191)
  • green certificate (p. 195)
  • greenhouse gas (p. 196)
  • heat (p. 202)
  • horsepower (p. 212)
  • Hubbert curve (p. 214)
  • hydrogen (p. 218)
  • industrial ecology (p. 226)
  • Industrial Revolution (p. 227)
  • input-output analysis (p. 229)
  • internal-combustion engine (p. 232)
  • IPAT equation (p. 234)
  • Jevons' paradox (p. 239)
  • Krebs cycle (p. 244)
  • Kyoto Protocol (p. 245)
  • levelized cost (p. 252)
  • light (p. 253)
  • longwall mining (p. 261)
  • lunar-solar power (p. 264)
  • market-based instrument (p. 270)
  • market failure (p. 271)
  • Mauna Loa curve (p. 273)
  • natural capital (p. 291)
  • natural gas (p. 292)
  • net energy (p. 295)
  • NIMBY (p. 298)
  • nongovernmental organization (p. 301)
  • ocean energy (p. 306)
  • oil crises (p. 309)
  • oil sand (p. 310)
  • oil spill (p. 311)
  • OPEC (p. 312)
  • Otto cycle (p. 316)
  • passive solar energy (p. 322)
  • peak oil (p. 324)
  • peat (p. 325)
  • -perpetual motion (p. 327)
  • photosynthesis (p. 332)
  • primary energy (p. 346)
  • quantum theory (p. 354)
  • radiation (p. 357)
  • recycling (p. 366&#