energy conservation - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Annihilation: Encyclopedia - Annihilation
Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of a particular object. Annihilation of an atomic or subatomic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic
The Conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Business Action On Climate Change: Encyclopedia - Business Action On Climate Change
Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to combatting global warming, and to influencing political deci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation
Technological escalation describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition, each side tends to employ continuing technologi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicycle: Encyclopedia - Bicycle
A bicycle, or bike, is a pedal-driven land vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. First introduced in 19th-ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time
Daylight saving time (also called DST) is the North American term for a system intended to "save" daylight (the British observe summer ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canonical: Encyclopedia - Canonical
Canonical is an adjective derived from canon. It essentially means "standard", "generally accepted" or "part of the back-story." basic, c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia - Butter
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is an everyday food in many parts of the world. Butter co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Job Training Partnership Act Of 1982: Encyclopedia Ii - Job Training Partnership Act Of 1982 - Provisions
The purpose of this act is delineated into five main programs requiring federal funding. Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 - Adult an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy-quest: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy-quest - The Aurora Expedition
The Aurora Expedition will involve an around-the-world voyage in a powerboat which, at 20 ft, will be the smallest vessel of its kind to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Economics: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy Economics - Energy Efficiency
According to Brian Czech, "Most modern economics has defined 'efficiency' in terms of output per personhour instead of output per unit of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Policy Act Of 2005: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy Policy Act Of 2005 - Provisions
The Act was intended to establish a comprehensive, long-range energy policy. It provides incentives for traditional energy production as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Transformity And The Rationalization Of Quality
Like the emergy concept, the concept of transformity was first introduced by Dr.D.M.Scienceman in collaboration with the late Howard T. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Firm-specific Infrastructure: Encyclopedia Ii - Firm-specific Infrastructure - Types Of Infrastructure
Firm-specific infrastructure - Information technology. Special terminology has evolved to deal with infrastructure that is devoted to i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - In General Relativity
The relations given above do not uniquely define the tensor. In general relativity, the symmetric form additionally satisfying Tab = Tba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schoolhouse Rock!: Encyclopedia Ii - Schoolhouse Rock! - Origins
Schoolhouse Rock was a commercial advertising venture by David McCall. The first song recorded was Three is a Magic Number, by Bob Doroug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Escalation - History Of Technological Escalation As Indicator Of Success
Technological escalation has been one of the most often-cited factors for the dominance of one civilization over another: those with flin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schoolhouse Rock!: Encyclopedia Ii - Schoolhouse Rock! - Origins
Schoolhouse Rock was a commercial advertising venture by David McCall. The first song recorded was Three is a Magic Number, by Bob Doroug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kenmore Square: Encyclopedia Ii - Kenmore Square - The Boston Citgo Sign
Citgo refers to its logo as the "trimark." A large, double-faced sign featuring this logo overlooks Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Citgo: Encyclopedia Ii - Citgo - History
The company traces its heritage back to the early 1900s and an oil entrepreneur named Henry Latham Doherty. After quickly climbing the la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydraulic Ram: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydraulic Ram - History
In 1772 John Whitehurst of Cheshire in England invented a manually controlled precursor of the hydraulic ram called the "pulsation engine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mitigation Of Global Warming: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitigation Of Global Warming - Technology
Mitigation of global warming - Electricity generation. Main articles: Renewable energy and Renewable energy development One means of r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - History Of Biological Conservation
The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature: The Torah...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Daylight Saving Time - Usage And History By Location
Daylight saving time - Africa. Egypt switches to DST on midnight of the last Thursday of April, since the weekend holiday for most Egy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Resource Base Of Communist Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Resource Base Of Communist Czechoslovakia - Minerals Oil And Power Plants
Resource base of Communist Czechoslovakia - Minerals and Mining. Czechoslovakia had significant quantities of coal and lignite. Hard c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Mobility Agenda: Encyclopedia Ii - New Mobility Agenda - Terminology
To appreciate fully what "new mobility" means, it is useful to see how it differs from "Old Mobility" (often defined as being stuck in tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - Types Of Butter
Before modern factory butter making, cream was usually collected from several milkings and was therefore several days old and somewhat fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Business Action On Climate Change: Encyclopedia Ii - Business Action On Climate Change - Energy Industry
Business action on climate change - ExxonMobil. Image:StopEssoleaflet.jpg ExxonMobil has been a leading figure in the business world's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Energy Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Energy Policy - International Use Of Nuclear Energy
(see also energy development, future energy development and renewable energy development) Nuclear energy use has been growing steadily si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Route-dependence: Encyclopedia Ii - Route-dependence - Spatial Route-dependence
If we place two observers (A and B) on opposite sides of a rotating black hole, both on the rotation plane, with the hole directly betwee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Transformity And The Rationalization Of Quality
Like the emergy concept, the concept of transformity was first introduced by Dr.D.M.Scienceman in collaboration with the late Howard T. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicycle - Technical Aspects
Bicycle - Legal requirements. The 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic considers a bicycle to be a vehicle, and a person controlling ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canonical: Encyclopedia Ii - Canonical - Mathematics
Mathematicians have for perhaps a century or more used the word canonical to refer to concepts that have a kind of uniqueness or naturaln...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Energy Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Energy Policy - Nuclear Power Phase-out
A Nuclear power phase-out was introduced in Sweden (1980), in Italy (1987), in Belgium (1999), and in Germany (2000) and has been discuss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - The Einstein Field Equations
In General Relativity, the stress tensor is studied in the context of the Einstein field equations which are often written as where R�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schoolhouse Rock!: Encyclopedia Ii - Schoolhouse Rock! - Factual Trivia
The short "The Preamble," set to highly infectious music, has a slightly abridged wording of the Preamble of the United States Constituti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - Relativistic Stress Tensor For An Idealized Fluid
For an idealized fluid, with no viscosity and no heat conduction, the stress tensor takes on a particularly simple form: Tαβ = (ρ + p)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Energy Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Energy Policy - Discussion Of Nuclear Energy
(see also: Nuclear power and Nuclear power phase-out#Pros and cons of the phase-out) Nuclear energy policy - Arguments against nuclear e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - The Various Stress-energy Tensors
There are a number of inequivalent stress-energy tensors out there. Stress-energy tensor - Canonical stress-energy tensor. This is the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Route-dependence: Encyclopedia Ii - Route-dependence - Spacetime Route-dependence
Some gravitational arguments also suggest that the gravitational potential between two points in space, measured along an agreed spatial ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Mobility Agenda: Encyclopedia Ii - New Mobility Agenda - In Brief
The New Mobility Agenda looks for and coordinates a complex bouquet of overlapping mobility arrangements in an attempt to offer a high qu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Economics: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy Economics - Issues
This section will review some of economic ideas and techniques that relate directly to energy economics. Energy economics - Peak Load Pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Energy Memory Energy In A Body
Scienceman's inclusion of the term energy memory in the definition of the word emergy implies that the properties of physical-biological-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Development
Ten years after proposing the emergy nomenclature in 1987, D.M.Scienceman wrote that his suggestion came as a consequence of studying H.T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Job Training Partnership Act Of 1982: Encyclopedia Ii - Job Training Partnership Act Of 1982 - Purpose
The law was enacted to establish programs to prepare youth and unskilled adults for entry into the labor force and to provide job trainin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Mathematical Definition
To understand the concept of emergy is is first necessary to understand Exergy: the real proportion of the energy that can drive mechanic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Empower And Maximum Empower
Empower refers to the flow rate of emergy: "The time rate of change of emergy is empower, analogous to the time rate of change of energy,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Emergy Accounting And Emergy Analysis
Emergy accounting is a GLOBAL method of accounting concerned with the input of solar energy equity at the global level. The emergy accoun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Definition In Words
Emergy can be defined as the total solar equivalent available energy of one form that was used up directly and indirectly in the work of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Citgo: Encyclopedia Ii - Citgo - The Boston Citgo Sign
Citgo refers to its logo as the "trimark." A large, double-faced sign featuring this logo overlooks Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Emergy Controversy And Value Theory
A controversial application of the concept is with respect to Value theory. For H.T.Odum, “embodied energy is a measure of value, in on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Schoolhouse Rock!: Encyclopedia Ii - Schoolhouse Rock! - Trivia
The short "The Preamble," set to highly infectious music, has a slightly abridged wording of the Preamble of the United States Constituti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Citgo: Encyclopedia Ii - Citgo - Sponsorships
Citgo was a sponsor of the Wood Brothers racing team in NASCAR for many years, winning races with drivers such as Kyle Petty, Neil Bonn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Escalation - Paradigms Or Worldviews
There is a philosophical difference of opinion on what constitutes the advancement of civilization, and technological progress lies at th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - Storage And Cooking
Normal butter softens to a spreadable consistency around 15 °C (60 °F), well above refrigerator temperatures. The "butter com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - Worldwide
India produces and consumes more butter than any other nation, dedicating almost half of its annual milk production to making butter or g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - History
Since even accidental agitation can turn cream into butter, it is likely that the invention of butter goes back to the earliest days of d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - Health And Nutrition
According to USDA figures, one tablespoon of butter (14 grams) contains 100 calories, all from fat, 11 grams of fat, of wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canonical: Encyclopedia Ii - Canonical - Religion
This word is used by theologians and canon lawyers to refer to the canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, adopted by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Daylight Saving Time - Origin
It is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris. (Read the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canonical: Encyclopedia Ii - Canonical - Physics
In theoretical physics, the concept of canonical (or conjugate) variables is of major importance. They always occur in complementary pair...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canonical: Encyclopedia Ii - Canonical - Computer Science
Some circles in the field of computer science have borrowed this usage from mathematicians. It has come to mean "the usual or standard st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Butter: Encyclopedia Ii - Butter - Butter Making
Unhomogenized milk and cream contain butterfat in the form of microscopic globules, each of which is surrounded by a membrane made of pho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicycle - History
No single time or person can be identified with the invention of the bicycle. Its earliest known forebears were called velocipedes, and i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicycle - Types Of Bicycle
There are many different types of bicycle. See also Category:Cycle types. Mountain bicycles are designed for off-road cycling, and incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicycle - Social And Historical Aspects
Bicycle - Economic and social implications. Bicycle manufacturing proved to be a training ground for other industries. Building modern ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Business Action On Climate Change: Encyclopedia Ii - Business Action On Climate Change - Overview
In 1989, the oil and automotive industries and the National Association of Manufacturers created the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) to op...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - Introduction
To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide variety of motiva...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - History Of Biological Conservation
The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature: Taoist an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - Usage Of Term
In common usage, the term refers to the activity of systematically protecting natural resources such as forests, including biological div...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Daylight Saving Time - Observation Of Dst
Daylight saving time is generally a temperate zone practice; day lengths in the tropics do not vary enough to justify DST. Hawaii, the on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Daylight Saving Time - Rationales For Dst
One of the major reasons given for observing DST is energy conservation. Theoretically, the amount of residential electricity needed in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Escalation - Technological Escalation In War
Human history is frequently divided into the ages where specific military technology was used. Hand-to-hand combat, clubs, axes, spears, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mitigation Of Global Warming: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitigation Of Global Warming - Mitigating The Effects Of Global Warming
Mitigation of the effects of global warming (often referred to as "adaptation" in climate change circles) focusses on defending against r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mitigation Of Global Warming: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitigation Of Global Warming - Personal Choices
Individual actions can include: supporting political candidates who have a plan to convert to wind power and electric vehicles. avoiding...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Escalation - Motives
Motives for technological escalation go far deeper than simple desire to triumph in the "necessary evil" of conflict between states. For ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Technological Escalation: Encyclopedia Ii - Technological Escalation - Effects
Technological escalation has occurred in many wars, and been key to victory in some of their battles — the longbows at the Battle of Ag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - Examples
Here we will present some specific cases: T00 This represents the energy density. T0i This represents the flux of energy across the x...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - Definition
The Stress-energy tensor is defined as the tensor Tab of rank two that gives the flux of the a th component of the momentum vector across...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mitigation Of Global Warming: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitigation Of Global Warming - Encouraging Technology And Use Changes
See also: Kyoto Protocol Mitigation of global warming - Carbon emissions trading. Main article: Carbon emissions trading The European U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mitigation Of Global Warming: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitigation Of Global Warming - Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Globally, the majority of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions arise from fuel combustion. The remainder is accounted for largely by "f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Mathematical Definition
To understand the concept of emergy is is first necessary to understand Exergy: the real proportion of the energy that can drive mechanic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Definition In Words
Emergy can be defined as the total solar equivalent available energy of one form that was used up directly and indirectly in the work of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daylight Saving Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Daylight Saving Time - Criticism Of Dst
DST is not universally accepted; many localities do not observe it. Opponents claim that there is not enough benefit to justify needing t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Development
Ten years after proposing the emergy nomenclature in 1987, D.M.Scienceman wrote that his suggestion came as a consequence of studying H.T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Energy Memory Energy In A Body
Scienceman's inclusion of the term energy memory in the definition of the word emergy implies that the properties of physical-biological-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Emergy Accounting And Emergy Analysis
Emergy accounting is a GLOBAL method of accounting concerned with the input of solar energy equity at the global level. The emergy accoun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Emergy - Empower And Maximum Empower
Empower refers to the flow rate of emergy: "The time rate of change of emergy is empower, analogous to the time rate of change of energy,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stress-energy Tensor: Encyclopedia Ii - Stress-energy Tensor - As A Noether Current
The stress-energy tensor satisfies the continuity equation . The quantity over a spacelike slice gives the energy-momentum vector. T...   » Read the article