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The environmental, social, and economic impacts of producing a good or service that are not directly reflected in the market price of the good or service.
Industry:Energy
The equivalent number of hours per day when solar irradiance averages 1 kW/m2. For example, six peak sun hours means that the energy received during total daylight hours equals the energy that would have been received had the irradiance for six hours been 1 kW/m2.
Industry:Energy
The factor, when multiplied by the monthly degree-days, that yields the monthly space heating load.
Industry:Energy
The fibrous material remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane; often burned by sugar mills as a source of energy.
Industry:Energy
The fine liquid or solid particles contained in combustion gases. The quantity and size of particulates emitted by cars, power and industrial plants, wood stoves, etc are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Industry:Energy
The fine particulate matter entrained in the flue gases of a combustion power plant.
Industry:Energy
The first law states that energy can not be created or destroyed; the second law states that when a free exchange of heat occurs between two materials, the heat always moves from the warmer to the cooler material.
Industry:Energy
The flow of air down a flue/chimney and into a house caused by low indoor air pressure that can occur when using several fans or fireplaces and/or if the house is very tight.
Industry:Energy
The flow of electrical energy (electricity) in a conductor, measured in amperes.
Industry:Energy
