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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. It is the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States. Coal is also a nonrenewable energy source because it takes...
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Edward Alexander Bouchet
A profile of Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918), the first African American to graduate from Yale in 1874, and the first to earn a doctorate from an American university when he earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1876.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: David Nelson Crosthwait
A profile of David Nelson Crosthwait (1898-1976), an African-American electrical and mechanical engineer. He was considered an authority on heat transfer, ventilation and air conditioning.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: John Frederic Daniell
A profile of John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845) who was a British chemist and meteorologist. He invented the first reliable DC battery. His inventions included a hygrometer, a pyrometer, and several types of batteries.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Edwin Laurentine Drake
A profile of Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819 -1880), the first man to successfully obtain oil from the ground by drilling in 1859. His invention of the drive pipe stopped flooding and cave-ins, and revolutionized the oil industry.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: John Presper Eckert Jr.
A profile of John Presper Eckert Jr., an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Sebastian Ziani De Ferranti
A profile of Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti, who was an electrical engineer and an inventor. He lived from 1864 to 1930, and designed the first modern power plant using a system that is still in use today.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Smart Inventions
Describes the use of electricity and of solar energy to power a vehicle.
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Kids and Energy: Hydro Energy
Hydropower is a clean, renewable and reliable energy source which converts kinetic energy from falling water into electricity, without consuming more water than is produced by nature. Quite simply the oldest method by which renewable...
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Kinds and Energy: Wind Energy
Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface is made of various land and water formations, it absorbs the sun's radiation unevenly. When the sun is shining...
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Kids and Energy: Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy can be used as an efficient heat source in small end-use applications such as greenhouses, but the consumers have to be located close to the source of heat. Geothermal energy - heat from the earth (in most cases mineral...
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Kids and Energy: Biomass Energy
Biomass is organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. Biomass fuels include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugar cane, and many other byproducts from a variety of agricultural processes.
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Kids and Energy: Ocean Energy
Generating technologies for deriving electrical power from the ocean include tidal power, wave power, ocean thermal energy conversion, ocean currents, ocean winds and salinity gradients. Of these, the three most well-developed...
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Principles
Provides a basic explanation of what energy is, how the laws of thermodynamics apply, and how energy differs from work.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Examples
Explains the definition of energy and gives some examples.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy and Recycling
Explains what recycling is and lists interesting facts about it.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Efficiency
Explains why it is important not to waste energy, and provides tips for saving energy.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Work
Defines what work is, presents the formula for calculating the amount of work, explains what conservation of energy means to a scientist, and discusses energy efficiency.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Heat and Temperature
Explains the difference between heat and temperature and provides facts about each.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Wood Fuel
A brief explanation of the use of wood as a fuel in the past, followed by an unrelated timeline of the history of waste management.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Electricity
A brief history of electricity, a secondary energy source that is produced by converting primary energy sources, such as oil or nuclear power.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Coal
A short history of developments in the coal industry.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Oil
A short history of petroleum oil from 3000 B.C. to the present.
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Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Timelines: Nuclear
A timeline of the scientific developments in our understanding of nuclear energy.