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The capture and use of waste heat; for example, using waste heat from a power plant to heat adjacent factories and other buildings |
Cogeneration |
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Changes out patterns of use or simply getting by with less |
Conservation |
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Refers to both the first-law, efficiency and second-law efficiency, where the first-law efficiency is the ratio is the actual amount of energy delivered to the amount of energy supplies to meet a particular need, and second-law efficiency is the ratio of the minimum available work needed to perform a particular task to the actual work used to perform that task. |
Energy efficiency |
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The principle that energy may not be created nor destroyed but always conserved |
First Law of thermodynamics |
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Use of a range of energy options that vary from region to region, including a mix of technology and sources of energy |
Integrated Energy Management |
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Refers to the time in the future when one-half of earths oil has been exploited (expected to occur between 2020 and 2050) |
Peak Oil |
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States that no use of energy in the real world can ever be 100% efficient |
Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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Type of energy management that provides for reliable sources of of energy while not causing environmental degradation and while ensuring that future generations will have a fair share of Earth's resources. |
Sustainable Energy Development |
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Force time the distance through which acts. When work is done we say energy is expanded |
Work (physics) |
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The ratio of the actual amount of energy delivered where it is needed to the amount of energy supplied in order to meet that need; expressed as a percentage. |
First-law efficiency |
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The ratio of the minimum available work needed to perform a particular task to the actual work used to perform that task. Reported as percentage. |
Second-law efficiency |
