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The use of devices to limit or prevent the release of pollution into the atmosphere.
Industry:Energy
The use of direct, diffuse, or reflected sunlight to provide supplemental lighting for building interiors.
Industry:Energy
The use of mechanical heat pipes or pumps to transport heat by circulating heat transfer fluids.
Industry:Energy
The use of solar thermal energy or solar electricity to power a cooling appliance. There are five basic types of solar cooling technologies: absorption cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to vaporize the refrigerant; desiccant cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to regenerate (dry) the desiccant; vapor compression cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to operate a Rankine-cycle heat engine; and evaporative coolers ("swamp" coolers), and heat-pumps and air conditioners that can by powered by solar photovoltaic systems.
Industry:Energy
The use of two or more different fuels (e.g. wood and coal) simultaneously in the same combustion chamber of a power plant.
Industry:Energy
The vacancy where an electron would normally exist in a solid; behaves like a positively charged particle.
Industry:Energy
The value of a personal portfolio, product, or investment after depreciation and interest on debt capital are subtracted from operating income. It can also be thought of as the equivalent worth of all cash flows relative to a base point called the present.
Industry:Energy
