Energy Resources
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- Nuclear Power
- Energy that is harnessed from reactions among radioactive isotopes
- Renewable Engegry
- Any source of energy that can be continually produced and ios in exhaustible given current conditions
- Energy
- the capacity for vigorous activity; available power
- Hydropower
- The use of the kinetic energy in moving water such as rivers or tidal currents to generate electricity
- Hydrogen Fuel
- Hydrogen gas or the chemical mixture of hydrogen and oxygen used to produce electricity
- Biomass Fuel
- Disposed materials or renewable resources used to create energy or agricultural products
- Samuel Brown
- created an internal combustion engine and demonstrated the potenital of fossil fuels to power vechicles
- Solar Power
- The use of sunlight to generate electricity
- Geothermic Engergy
- Energy generated from the heat beneath the earth's mantle; usually in reference to the use of subterranean steam to drive engines tha tproduce electricity
- Fossil Fuels
- Combustible materials such as oil, coal, and natural gas that are composed of the remains of formerly living material