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The term "thermal energy" is used loosely in various contexts in physics and engineering, generally related to the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding atoms in a substance. It can refer to several different physical concepts. These include the internal energy or enthalpy of a body of matter and radiation; heat, defined as a type of energy transfer (as is thermodynamic work); and the characteristic energy of a degree of freedom, , in a system that is described in terms of its microscopic particulate constituents (where denotes temperature and denotes the Boltzmann constant).
The term "thermalenergy" is used loosely in various contexts in physics and engineering, generally related to the kinetic energy of vibrating and colliding...
Thermalenergy storage (TES) is the storage of thermalenergy for later reuse. Employing widely different technologies, it allows surplus thermal energy...
Ocean thermalenergy conversion (OTEC) is a renewable energy technology that harnesses the temperature difference between the warm surface waters of the...
Solar thermalenergy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermalenergy for use in industry, and in the...
are in thermal equilibrium if there is no net flow of thermalenergy between them when they are connected by a path permeable to heat. Thermal equilibrium...
Seasonal thermalenergy storage (STES), also known as inter-seasonal thermalenergy storage, is the storage of heat or cold for periods of up to several...
transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermalenergy (heat) between physical systems...
conserved. To account for slowing due to friction, Leibniz theorized that thermalenergy consisted of the motions of the constituent parts of matter, although...
occupants' thermalenergy longer. Scientifically, thermal mass is equivalent to thermal capacitance or heat capacity, the ability of a body to store thermal energy...
electricity, solar thermalenergy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture. It is an essential source of renewable energy, and its technologies...
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to...
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Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermalenergy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in...
potential energy is converted into thermalenergy, which is then transferred to the home's air to raise its temperature. Conversions to thermalenergy from...
primary method by which the Sun transfers heat to the Earth is thermal radiation. This energy is partially absorbed and scattered in the atmosphere, the latter...
opposing external driving energy source, within a body or between bodies, temperature differences decay over time, and thermal equilibrium is approached...
Renewable thermalenergy is the technology of gathering thermalenergy from a renewable energy source for immediate use or for storage in a thermal battery...
k) is the proportionality factor that relates the average relative thermalenergy of particles in a gas with the thermodynamic temperature of the gas...
thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy vertically. Thermals are...
Geothermal energy is thermalenergy extracted from the Earth's crust. It combines energy from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay....
is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat (solar thermalenergy), which drives a heat engine (usually a steam turbine) connected to...
Infrared thermography (IRT), thermal video and/or thermal imaging, is a process where a thermal camera captures and creates an image of an object by using...
A solar thermal collector collects heat by absorbing sunlight. The term "solar collector" commonly refers to a device for solar hot water heating, but...
massive, thermalenergy is readily borne by mobile conduction electrons. Additionally, because they're delocalized and very fast, kinetic thermalenergy conducts...
A thermal reservoir, also thermalenergy reservoir or thermal bath, is a thermodynamic system with a heat capacity so large that the temperature of the...
A nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a...
counts raw energy and not usable energy and fails to account well for energy losses, particularly the large losses in thermal sources. It therefore generally...