Photo credit:
NASA/
TRACE
Plasma being channeled by the
magnetic field loops of a
sunspot.
Photo credit:
Charliebrown7034
Skyglow over
New York City, one form of
light pollution.
Photo credit:
United States Department of Energy
The fireball created as energy is released in a
nuclear explosion.
Photo credit:
Luc Lviatour
Electricity
ionizing the gas in a
plasma lamp.
Photo credit:
Postdlf
Lightning is a highly visible form of
energy transfer.
Photo credit:
NASA
A
Saturn V rocket launches
Apollo 11, burning 3,580
U.S. gallons (13,552 liters) of
kerosene per second.
Photo credit: Senior Airman Joshua Strang,
United States Air Force
An
aurora, caused by the release of energy as
charged particles collide with atoms in the Earth's
upper atmosphere.
Photo credit:
Johnson Space Center/
NASA
Tropical cyclones feed on the
heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor condenses.
Photo credit: From an image by
Wolfgang Beyer
Strombolian volcanic eruptions can eject
incandescent
cinder,
lapilli and
lava bombs to altitudes of tens to hundreds of meters.
Photo credit: From an image by
Arnold Paul
Coal-fired power stations
transform
chemical energy into 36%-48%
electricity and 52%-64% waste
heat.
Photo credit:
Andreas Tille
Geysers erupt periodically due to surface water being heated by
geothermal heat.
Photo credit:
Björn Appel
A
solar furnace can be used to
generate electricity,
melt
steel or make
hydrogen fuel.
Photo credit: Stephen Codrington
Wood is an important
fuel in many
developing countries.
Photo credit:
Flickr
The 11 MW
PS10 solar power tower near Seville in Spain.
Photo credit:
United States Department of Agriculture
Fire is a rapid
oxidation process that creates
heat and
light, together with
smoke and other
products of combustion.
Photo credit: Jon Sullivan
Photosynthesis is a complex
energy transformation process in which
sunlight,
carbon dioxide and
water are converted to
chemical energy by living organisms.
Photo credit:
United States Air Force
The
IPCC estimates that
aviation will account for 4% of all
carbon emissions released by human activity by
2050.
Photo credit:
User:Minesweeper
The use of fuels for
transport accounts for around 14% of world
greenhouse gas emissions, but over 25% of emissions in some countries.
Photo credit:
Cooldude110
Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods through a pipe, most commonly liquid and gases such as
crude oil and
natural gas.
Photo credit: From an image by
Contributor
This
waste-to-energy plant is one of several that provides
district heating in
Vienna.
Photo credit: From an image by Jonas Jordan,
USACE
Oil wells in
Kuwait were
set alight by retreating
Iraqi forces during the
1991 Gulf War.
Photo credit: From an image by Grétar Ívarsson
Geothermal power, the harnessing of
geothermal heat to generate
electricity, is used in over 20 countries.
Photo credit:
During the 2011
Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan, three
nuclear reactors were damaged by explosions.
Photo credit:
Greenpeace
Oil shale is a source of
unconventional oil, which combustion and thermal processing generate atmospheric emissions. Pictured is oil shale being mined by the
Viru Keemia Grupp.
Photo credit:
BDS2006
Wind farm is a group of
wind turbines in the same location used for production of electric power.
Photo credit:
A. Lepik
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines.
Photo credit:
George Louis
Electric power transmission is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, a process in the delivery of
electricity to consumers
Photo credit:
Diliff
An
electrical grid is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from generation facilities such as wind farms to consumers.
Photo credit:
Diliff
The
Empire State Building is being transformed into a more
energy efficient and eco-friendly structure, at a cost of $120 million.
Photo credit:
kallerna
Andasol Solar Power Station is a 150-
megawatt (MW)
concentrated solar power station and Europe's first commercial plant to use
parabolic troughs.
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