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U.S. Department of Energy
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Any appliance that consumes power even when it is turned off. Examples of phantom loads include appliances with electronic clocks or timers, appliances with remote controls, and appliances with wall cubes (a small box that plugs into an AC outlet to power appliances).
Industry:Energy
Any coefficient used to calculate heat transmission by conduction, convection, or radiation through materials or structures.
Industry:Energy
Any device (or plant) that follows the sun's apparent movement across the sky.
Industry:Energy
Any device, such as lights, televisions, and power tools, which is plugged into your central power source and used only intermittently.
Industry:Energy
Any fuel that is in solid form, such as wood, peat, lignite, coal, and manufactured fuels such as pulverized coal, coke, charcoal, briquettes, pellets, etc.
Industry:Energy
Any gaseous, liquid, or solid fuel used for indoor space heating.
Industry:Energy
Any light source designed specifically to direct light a task or work performed by a person or machine.
Industry:Energy
Any machine capable of producing power to do work.
Industry:Energy
Any material that can be burned to make energy.
Industry:Energy
Any material that has a limited capacity for conducting an electric current. Certain semiconductors, including silicon, gallium arsenide, copper indium diselenide, and cadmium telluride, are uniquely suited to the photovoltaic conversion process.
Industry:Energy