List of energy resources explained
These are modes of energy production, energy storage, or energy conservation, listed alphabetically. Note that not all sources are accepted as legitimate or have been proven to be tappable.
- Fischer–Tropsch process
- Flywheel (storage)
- Fossil fuel
- Fossil-fuel power station
- Francis turbine
- Fuel – a substance used as a source of energy, usually by the heat produced in combustion
- Fuel cell
- Fuel efficiency
- Fusion power
- Gas turbine
- Gasohol
- Geothermal exchange heat pump
- Geothermal heating
- Geothermal power
- Grid energy storage
- High-altitude wind power – Energy can be captured from the wind by kites, aerostats, airfoil matrices, balloons, bladed turbines, kytoon, tethered gliders sailplanes
- Hydroelectricity
- Hydrogen economy
- Hydrogen storage, Underground hydrogen storage
- Hydropower-Energy from moving water
- Hygroelectricity
- Implosion
- Kaplan turbine
- Light crude oil
- Liquid fuel
- Liquid nitrogen engine
- Marine current power
- Magnetohydrodynamic, generator, MHD generator or dynamo transforms thermal energy or kinetic energy directly into electricity
- Methane clathrate
- Methanol
- Methanol economy
- Natural gas
- Natural gas field
- Natural gas vehicle
- Nuclear energy – energy in the nucleus or core of atoms[1]
- Nuclear fusion
- Nuclear reactor
- Nuclear reprocessing
- Oil drilling
- Oil platform
- Oil refinery
- Oil shale
- Oil well
- Osmotic power – or salinity gradient power – is the energy available from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water.
- OTEC – ocean thermal energy conversion
- Oxidation
- Peat
- Penrose Mechanism
- Petroleum
- Photovoltaics
- Piezoelectricity
- Pneumatics – compressed air
- Products based on refined oil
- Propellant
- Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
- Pyrolysis
- Quark matter energy
- Renewable energy
- Savonius wind turbine – wind
- Small hydro
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Education. National Geographic. Society. www.nationalgeographic.org.
