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• Energy Technology
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  Energy conservation

  Energy conservation is the practice of reducing the use of energy in order to increase national security, personal security, save money, be more comfortable and/or help clean the ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Nature of Water
  Sports Science
  Natural Disasters
  Quantum Physics
  Tsunamis
   
  

  Pumice

  Pumice is a highly vesicular pyroclastic igneous rock of intermediate to siliceous magmas including rhyolite, trachyte and phonolite. Pumice is usually light in colour ranging from white, yellowish, ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Environmental Science
  Energy Technology
  Sustainability
  Solar Energy
   
  

  Renewable energy

  Renewable energy (sources) or RES capture their energy from existing flows of energy, from on-going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, flowing water, biological processes, and geothermal heat ... > more
• Alternative Fuels
  Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Fuel Cells
  Energy Technology
  Petroleum
   
  

  Ethanol fuel

  The use of ethanol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long-term ... > more
• Electricity
  Energy Technology
  Solar Energy
  Wind Energy
  Fuel Cells
  Batteries
   

  Distributed generation

  Distributed generation is a new trend in the generation of heat and electrical power. The concept permits the "consumer", who is generating heat or electricity for their own needs, to send their ... > more
• Renewable Energy
  Energy and the Environment
  Sports Science
  Nuclear Energy
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Medicine
   
  

  Chernobyl disaster

  The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the ... > more
• Astrophysics
  Galaxies
  Cosmology
  Physics
  Black Holes
  Astronomy
   
  

  Redshift

  In physics and astronomy, redshift is an observed increase in the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation received by a detector compared to that emitted by the source. For visible light, red is the ... > more
• Aviation
  Vehicles
  Fuel Cells
  Fossil Fuels
  Petroleum
  Alternative Fuels
   
  

  Internal combustion engine

  The internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which combustion occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. Combustion of a fuel creates high temperature/pressure gases, which are ... > more
• Construction
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Sports Science
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Civil Engineering
   
  

  Collapse of the World Trade Center

  On September 11, 2001, the two main towers of the World Trade Center complex were each hit by hijacked commercial aircraft as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks. 2 WTC collapsed to the ground at ... > more
• Fossil Fuels
  Petroleum
  Energy Policy
  Sports Science
  Fuel Cells
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  Coal

  Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (strip mining). It is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. Often associated with ... > more

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