• Direct energy conversion (DEC) or simply direct conversion converts a charged particle's kinetic energy into a voltage. It is a scheme for power extraction...
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    Energy transformation, also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another. In physics, energy is a quantity that...
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  • Direct conversion may refer to: Direct energy conversion (DEC), a scheme for power extraction from nuclear fusion, Direct-conversion receiver (DCR), a...
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    Energy conversion efficiency (η) is the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input, in energy terms. The input, as well...
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  • Atomics to use direct conversion to extract energy from fission reactions. Essentially, attempting [clarification needed] to extract energy from the linear...
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  • A direct-conversion receiver (DCR), also known as homodyne, synchrodyne, or zero-IF receiver, is a radio receiver design that demodulates the incoming...
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    magnetic mirrors, magnetic levitation, magnetic bearing design and direct energy conversion. Post was a winner of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma...
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  • Photon-intermediate direct energy conversion (PIDEC) is a scheme for direct conversion of nuclear power to electricity. PIDEC process is somewhat similar[citation...
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    Solar energy conversion describes technologies devoted to the transformation of solar energy to other (useful) forms of energy, including electricity,...
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  • target compressing fusion plasmas to 12 tesla (T). Energy is captured by direct energy conversion that uses the expansion of the plasma to induce a current...
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  • In electrical engineering, power conversion is the process of converting electric energy from one form to another. A power converter is an electrical...
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    hypothetical candidate for conversion into a directed-energy weapon, by focusing pulses of radar energy on target missiles. The energy spikes are tailored to...
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  • Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a renewable energy technology that harnesses the temperature difference between the warm surface waters of the...
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  • degrees. A third secondary α-particle is also emitted, of lower energy. Direct energy conversion systems for other fusion power generators, involving collector...
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  • Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion is a direct conversion process from heat to electricity via photons. A basic thermophotovoltaic system consists...
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  • debate Display Energy Certificate, a UK requirement to show a certificate rating energy performance in public buildings Direct energy conversion, a scheme...
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  • even a resistor, these methods dissipated the excess as heat; energy-efficient conversion became possible only with solid-state switch-mode circuits. DC-to-DC...
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    materials.:242 80% of the resultant energy is carried off by neutrons, which limits the use of direct energy conversion. It requires the radioisotope tritium...
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    methanol, an energy-dense yet reasonably stable liquid at all environmental conditions. Whilst the thermodynamic theoretical energy conversion efficiency...
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  • stories, a conversion reactor is any artificial device or process which can result in higher or complete conversion of matter into energy, or vice versa...
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  • treat chronic wounds. Magnetohydrodynamic power generation, a direct energy conversion method from a hot gas in motion within a magnetic field was developed...
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    radioactive materials and thermocouples suitable for the direct conversion of heat to electrical energy using polonium-210 as the heat source. RTGs were developed...
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    theoretical underpinnings of direct conversion, later demonstrated by Barr and Moir. They demonstrated a 48 percent energy capture efficiency on the Tandem...
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  • mechanical energy is derived from the wind's kinetic energy, then many options are available for using that mechanical energy: direct traction, conversion to...
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  • The electrical energy in the coil of the EMP system is translated to potential and kinetic energy through direct energy conversion. This results in...
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  • phonon drag, it may be beneficial in a thermoelectric material for direct energy conversion applications. The magnitude of this effect is typically appreciable...
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  • smaller percentage of the generated power. The efficiency of the direct energy conversion in MHD power generation increases with the magnetic field strength...
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  • the products obtained from the conversion of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 38: 594–608. doi:10.1016/j...
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    drowned. Energy portal Renewable energy portal Water portal Deep water source cooling Gravitation water vortex power plant Energy conversion efficiency...
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  • available. Nuclear batteries can be classified by their means of energy conversion into two main groups: thermal converters and non-thermal converters...
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