- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A device that converts a heat, chemical or mechanical energy into electricity.
Industry:Energy
The liquified petroleum gases propane and butane, contained under moderate pressure (about 125 pounds per square inch and 30 pounds per square inch respectively), in cylinders.
Industry:Energy
A heating system in which electric resistance is used to produce heat which radiates to nearby surfaces. There is no fan component to a radiant heating system.
Industry:Energy
A means to increase the thermal efficiency of a steam electric generating system by converting some waste heat from the condenser into electricity rather than discharging all of it into the environment.
Industry:Energy
A unit of electromagnetic wave frequency that is equal to one cycle per second. It is named after Henrich R. Hertz.
Industry:Energy
A device that produces heat through electric resistance. For example, an electric current is run through a wire coil with a relatively high electric resistance, thereby converting the electric energy into heat which can be transferred to the space by fans.
Industry:Energy
A nuclear reactor that produces more fuel than it consumes. The breeder, invented in the United States, is used as a power source in several European countries.
Industry:Energy
