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All the natural and living things around us. The earth, air, weather, plants, and animals all make up our environment.
Industry:Energy
The fine particulate matter entrained in the flue gases of a combustion power plant.
Industry:Energy
A chemical used as a preservative and in bonding agents. It is found in household products such as plywood, furniture, carpets, and some types of foam insulation. It is also a by-product of combustion and is a strong-smelling, colorless gas that is an eye irritant and can cause sneezing, coughing, and other health problems.
Industry:Energy
Fuels formed in the ground from the remains of dead plants and animals. It takes millions of years to form fossil fuels. Oil, natural gas, and coal are fossil fuels.
Industry:Energy
Those gases, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, tropospheric ozone, methane, and low level ozone that are transparent to solar radiation, but opaque to long wave radiation, and which contribute to the greenhouse effect.
Industry:Energy
A popular term used to describe the heating effect due to the trapping of long wave (length) radiation by greenhouse gases produced from natural and human sources.
Industry:Energy
A popular term used to describe the increase in average global temperatures due to the greenhouse effect.
Industry:Energy
A unit of power equal to 1 billion Watts; 1 million kilowatts, or 1,000 megawatts.
Industry:Energy
Energy produced by the internal heat of the earth; geothermal heat sources include: hydrothermal convective systems; pressurized water reservoirs; hot dry rocks; manual gradients; and magma. Geothermal energy can be used directly for heating or to produce electric power.
Industry:Energy
