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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
Segment revenues both from sales to unaffiliated customers (i.e., revenue from customers outside the enterprise as reported in the company's consolidated income statement) and from intersegment sales or transfers, if any, of productand services similar to those sold to unaffiliated customers, excluding equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates; dividend and interest income; gain on disposition of property, plant, and equipment; and foreign currency translation effects.
Industry:Energy
Materials left over from making nuclear energy. Radioactive waste can destroy living organisms if it is not stored safely.
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 be powered by solar photovoltaic systems.
Industry:Energy
The most common method of underground mining in which the mine roof is supported mainly by coal pillars left at regular intervals. Rooms are places where the coal is mined; pillars are areas of coal left between the rooms. Room-and-pillar mining is done either by conventional or continuous mining.
Industry:Energy
Company that operates a coal mining operation and is owned by another company (i.e., the parent company).
Industry:Energy
The spontaneous emission of radiation from the nucleus of an atom. Radionuclides lose particles and energy through this process.
Industry:Energy
The apparent angle of the sun north or south of the earth's equatorial plane. The earth's rotation on its axis causes a daily change in the declination.
Industry:Energy
A unit that is in operation at the beginning of the reporting period.
Industry:Energy
A radioactive isotope.
Industry:Energy
The radiant energy of the sun, which can be converted into other forms of energy, such as heat or electricity.
Industry:Energy