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λ
307
13 amps
50
747
132
1698
6,
19
1769
6
1910
7
1979
20
2050
203
A380
132
AA battery
89
absolution
3
academics
293
accelerator-driven system
166
action
203
addiction
203
Adelman
40
advertisement
72,
154
advertising standards authority
126
advocating acts of consumption
4
aerodynamic efficiency
273
agricultural waste
206
air
- energy consumption
92
- hot
51
air changes
289,
296
air resistance
118
air travel
- neutralization
211
air-conditioning
52,
144,
151
- in vehicles
131
air-source heat pump
52,
151,
205,
212
Airbus
132
Aircar
129
aircraft
132
- turboprop
35
aircraft carriers
220
airship
280
albatross
272,
273
albedo flip
243
Albert Hall
332
alchemy
88
algae
284,
285,
288
- biofuel
285
- hydrogen
285
Algeria
177,
338
alkaline battery
- energy density
199
Alps
209
altitude
272
altruism
5
aluminium
89,
97,
325
- can
89
- embodied energy
94
- Iceland
183
always on
96
America
21,
93,
338
American
104,
234
Amonix
182
amplifier
70
amps
50
analogy
24
Andasol
178,
184
answering machine
70
any colour
122
apple
259
Aptera
137
Aquamarine Power Ltd
310
area
55,
332
- frontal
119
area per person
32,
338-
341
Arizona
182,
236,
285
arms exports
220
Artemis Intelligent Power
125
artificial trees
249
Atkinson cycle
136
Atlantic
73,
309
Atlantic Ocean
- tides
81
- waves
74
atmosphere
10
Atoms for Peace
133
Ausra
184
Australia
338
automobile, see car
average travel
30
average windspeeds
32
B&Q
66
Bad Thing
10
Baer
15
bag of crisps
80
bailing the Titanic
68
balloon
280
Bangladesh
338
bar fire
51
bar-tailed godwit
277
Barbados
230
barium titanate
199
barley
286
barrel of oil
331
bath
50,
51
bathymetry
61
battery
89,
137,
205
- efficiency
202
- energy density
199,
261
- lithium-sulphur
202
- nickel-cadmium
89
- rechargeable
94
battery charging
197
battery exchange
261
Bavaria
41,
48,
216
BBC
68,
71
beach
307
Beatrice
64,
66
Beaufort scale
263
Bedford
55
beef
77
Belgium
21,
208
Berlingo
127
Betz
264
bicycle
119,
128,
258,
264
billiard ball
81
billion
11,
217,
329
- nuclear decommissioning
175
biodiesel
42,
204
- from algae
285
bioethanol
205
- from corn
284
- from sugar beet
283
- from sugar cane
284
biofuel
42,
78,
283
- cellulosic ethanol
284
- from algae
285
- from corn
284
- jatropha
284
- power density
283
- production
205
- rape
283
- sugar beet
283
- sugar cane
284
biomass
38,
43
- cofiring
212
- plantation
212
- yields
48
biomethanol
204
bird
269
- formation flying
270,
278
- longest flight
277
- range
276
- speed
272
- theory of
269
birds and windmills
63
Birmingham
206
Blair
213,
222,
230
blimp
280
blob
181,
221
block
325
BMW
29,
260
- Hydrogen 7
130,
139
boat, see also ship
- energy consumption
92
- nuclear-powered
133
boats as planes
279
Boeing 747
128
Boltzmann
272
bomb
100,
101
Bombardier Q400
35
boron
19,
202,
209
boundary
30
BP
3,
27,
219
brakes
255
braking
125
breeder reactor
163,
165
brick
325
Brinkley
66
Bristol channel
84
Britain
21,
93
- electricity demand
186,
188,
342
- heights
55
- rainfall
55,
56
British Isles
83
British person
30
BritNed
197
Brooklyn windmill
264
Brown
21
BTU
331
building
- Cambridge University
298
- data
141
- energy-efficiency office
298
- heat consumption
140,
289
- heat-loss parameter
294
- Heatkeeper
297,
299
- leakiness
294
- Passivhaus
298
- regulations
291
- standards
144
- thermal mass
305
- typical house
140
bulb
58
- incandescent
58
- LED
58
- low-energy
58
bus
128
- electric
120
Bush
42
butter
29,
31
- calorific value
29
C3 plants
49
C4 plants
49
C5
66,
127
cable modem
68
Caithness
268
California
182
calm weather
186
Calorie
76,
330
calorie
330
calorific value
29,
31,
48,
213,
284
- butter
29
- coal
199
- DERV
199
- diesel
199
- ethanol
199
- firewood
199
- fuel
29,
199
- gross
31
- hydrogen
199
- kerosene
199
- methanol
199
- net
31
- propane
199
- waste
287
- wood
284
Caltech
2
Cambridge
44,
52,
91
Cambridge University
298
can
89
Canada
21,
235
capacity
33,
63,
267
capacity factor
33,
267,
268
capitalization
25,
328
car
29,
118,
255
- eco-car
119
- electric
127
- embodied energy
94
- fish
137
- hybrid
126
- lights
57
- manufacture
94
- recharging
261
carbohydrate
43
carbon capture
212
carbon capture and storage
157,
240
carbon dioxide
19,
20
- climate change
5
- data
6,
9
- equivalent
11
- greenhouse effect
5
carbon fuel cell
158
carbon intensity
322
carbon neutralization
3,
211,
226,
244
carbon offset
3,
226,
244
carbon price
211
carbon sequestration
157,
240
- by cofiring biomass
211
- cofiring
212
carbon tax
331
carbon-dioxide emissions
- electric car
131
cardboard
284
Cardiff
84
cargo vessel
- nuclear-powered
133
carnivore
77
Cars taken off the road
330
cartoon
203
- bicycle
259
- car
254
- flight
270
- train
260
- wind power
263
- windmill
264
cartoon Britain
115,
204
cartoon of flight
272
cartoon-Britain
116
- 2008
116
cassette-player
70
cat
63,
78,
103
catamaran
128,
280,
282
cavity-wall insulation
142,
295
CCS
157, see also carbon capture and storage
cellulosic bioethanol
205
cellulosic ethanol
284
Celsius
289,
328
cement
325
ceramics
88
Cessna
128,
274
Chancellor
3
charger
68,
69,
72
charging
197
cheese
76
chemical energy
26,
27,
31
chicken
77
chicken feed
77
chicken poo
42,
286
chimney
145,
157
- solar
182
China
5,
21,
321
CHP
145
circulation of oceans
242
Citroën Berlingo
127
civilization
50
Clarkson
126
clay
325
clean coal
203,
212
cliff
11
climate change
5,
10
- greater threat than terrorism
4
- is about energy
5
climate modelling
11
climate-change inactivists
8,
240
clock-radio
70
clothes dryer
51
clothes washing
50,
51
cloud cover
38
cloudy day
45
clutter
88
CO
2, see carbon dioxide
coal
8,
94,
206,
284
- British resource
6
- calorific value
199
- clean
203,
212
- contains uranium and thorium
175
- energy density
199
- nuclear radiation from
168
- power station closures
342
- UK
158
coal imports
343
coal mines
208
coal mining
158,
161
coal power station
5,
157,
330
coal production
6,
343
coal substitution
42
coalition of the willing
244
coastline
65,
74
coefficient of performance
147,
154,
292,
300
coffee
332
cofiring biomass
211
cogeneration
145
coke
89,
94
Colorado
285
combustion
31
commuting
30,
127,
136
compact linear fresnel reflector
184
computer
68,
69,
89
- manufacture
94
concentrating solar power
40,
178,
184
- parabolic trough
178
concentrator photovoltaics
182
concrete
325
condensation
296
condensing boiler
292
conductivity
303
confusion
- power and efficiency
47
- power and energy
24
congestion
124
congestion charging
135
conservation of energy
26
Conservative Party
114
consumption
22
- European
104
container
91,
332
container ship
91
continent
97
continental Europe
145,
329
continental shelf
82,
243
contraction and convergence
15
convective heat loss rate
290
conversion table
263
conveyor belt
242
cooker
50,
51
cooking
50,
207
cooling tower
145
CoP
147
copper
325
cordless phone
69
Coriolis force
82
corn
286
cornish pasties
91
Cornwall
91
Coronation Street
196
cost
214
- arms
221
- nuclear decommissioning
175
- offshore wind
66
- wind
66
counter-current heat exchange
296
countries
17,
105,
231,
336,
337
- civilized
50
countryside
208
cow
76,
77,
79
CPV, see concentrator photovoltaics
crisps
80
crock of manure
8
Croesor
202
crops
286
CRT (cathode ray tube)
70
Cruachan
191
crude oil
19,
206
- production
5
cruise-ship
88
crust
96
CSP, see concentrating solar power
cubic foot
334
cubic metre
334
cup
332
cup of tea
331
current
84
Curtis
130
CUTE
130
cv
333
cyclist
264
Czech Republic
21
dairy
76,
79
dam
55
damp
296
Darth Vader
68
data
- area
338
- bathymetry
61
- calorific values
284
- carbon intensity of electricity production
335
- carbon intensity of fuels
335
- CO
2 concentrations
6,
9
- coal imports
343
- coal production
6,
7,
9,
343
- commuting
30,
127,
136
- countries
338
- depths
61
- electric car
127
- electrical generation capacity
342
- electricity demand
342
- electricity production
342,
343
- emissions
15
- emissions of cars
136
- energy consumption
105,
231,
337
- energy gap
342
- fossil fuels
343
- freight
92
- G-Wiz
127
- gas consumption
343
- gas demand
200
- GDP
105,
231,
336
- greenhouse gas emissions
336,
337
- heat consumption
141
- height
55
- hydroelectricity
343
- Iceland
97
- imports
323
- incineration
207
- landfill
207
- nuclear power
343
- nuclear power by country
161
- offshore wind
64
- oil consumption
284
- oil price
5
- oil production
5-
7,
9
- photovoltaics
40
- population
9,
338
- power station closures
5
- pumped storage
201
- recycling
207
- rolling resistance
258
- sea depths
61
- straw production
286
- sunniness
38,
44,
238
- urban population density
152
- waste
207
- water depths
61
- wind
- Cairngorm
32
- Cambridge
32,
34
- Ireland
187
- wind power fluctuations
188
- wood
284
DD
172
decentralization
- microturbines
63
decommissioning
217
deep offshore wind
60,
66
definition
- sustainable
157
degree-day
291,
293
Delaware
47
deliberate inaccuracy
16
delivery vehicle
138
demand
- electricity
186,
188,
342
- gas
200
demand management
189,
196,
197
Denmark
26,
33,
34,
63,
197
density
31,
263
Department of Defense
102
depths
61
DERV
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
desalination
92,
93,
310
desert
178
deuterium fusion
172
Diamond
177
diesel
31
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
digital hydraulics
126
digital radio
70
Dinorwig
191-
193,
216,
329
direct carbon fuel cell
158
direct normal irradiance
180
dirigible
280
dishwashing
50,
51
district heating
145
diversity
207
DIY planet repairs
72,
154
do your bit
3
dog
78
door
294
double decker bus
332
double glazing
141,
294
double-decker bus
3
double-effect generation
311
Dounreay
163
drag
118
drag coefficient
137,
254-
256
drag-to-lift ratio
273
draught proofing
141,
289
Drax
330
drinks can
89
driving
79
DT
172
duck
309
DVD player
69
Dynamic Demand
202
dynamic demand
196
e
333
e500
137
eagle
63
earth
10,
81,
325
- area
332
easily turn-off-and-onable
186
EastEnders
196
Eco Cute
154
eco-boat
128,
130
Eco-Bollocks award
66
eco-car
119
economic costs
23
economics
66,
203,
211
- of wind
34
economies of scale
34
economist
2
economy
29
EdF
5,
342
EEStor
199
efficiency
115,
191,
201
- confused with power
47
- improvements
42
- more-efficient planes
37
- of incineration
44
- of plants
49
- of solar panels
47
- scope for improvement
23
efficiency legislation
153
Eggborough
330
EGS (enhanced geothermal systems)
234
Einstein
277
Eisenhower
100,
133
ekranoplan
281
Elean Power Station
288
electric bus
120
electric car
128
- CO
2 emissions
131
- data
127
- range
261
- recharging
261
- theory
261
electric fan heater
51
electric vehicle
197,
206
- battery cost
131
- in cold places
132
- in hot places
131
- lifetime
131
- RAV4
138
electric vehicles
189
electric vehicles and wind power
195
electrical energy
27
electricity
50,
69,
203
- demand management
196
- demand varies
186
- greening of
131
- grid
197
- hydroelectric
55
- mains
196
- supply
50,
131,
204,
342
- energy gap
5
electricity production
343
electrification
- of heating
205
- of transport
204
Elettrica
127
embedded
89
embodied
89
embodied energy
- aluminium
94
- building
326
- building materials
325
- car
94,
324
- glass
325
- metal
325
- paper
95
- PET
94
- rock
325
- steel
94
- water
95
- wood
325
emissions
- flight
16
- flying
16
- of electricity production
335
- of fuels
335
- travel
16
emissions trading
217,
226
enemy of the people
4
energy
24
- chemical
31
- conservation
26
- contrasted with power
24
- geothermal
96
- kinetic
28
- low-grade
39
- of vaporization
31
- spending
217
- wave
307
energy amplifier
166
energy conversion
103
energy crops
42,
283
energy demand variations
186,
200
energy density
29,
31,
284
- butter
29
- coal
199
- DERV
199
- diesel
199
- ethanol
199
- firewood
199
- fuel
29,
199
- hydrogen
199
- kerosene
199
- lead-acid battery
199
- lithium-ion battery
199
- methanol
199
- propane
199
energy efficiency
58
energy gap
5,
342
energy intensity
115
energy waste league
68
energy yield ratio
41,
42
- solar PV
41
- wind
42
engineer
31
England
55
England—France interconnector
183,
209
enhanced geothermal extraction
98
entertainment system
69
entropy
26,
92
environmental costs of renewables
23
equator
38
estimation
264
Estonia
21
ethanol
42
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
- from corn
284
- from sugar cane
284
Etheridge
19
ethical assertions
17
ethics
11
- breeder reactor
163
- pollution
14
Europe
43,
104,
108,
207,
233,
338
- continental
145,
146,
329
European Union
219
European Wind Energy Association
235
EV1
137
Evans
139
every little helps
3,
58,
68
evil
68
exchange rate
27
Exxon
219
factory
88
factual assertions
17
Fair Isle
197,
198
fallacy, see also myth
- Limits to Growth
174
farm
- solar
208
fast breeder reactor
162,
163
fat is 6000 metres per second
277
faucet
24
fertilizer
43,
48,
78,
80
fetch
73
Fetish
138
FEU
332
Ffestiniog
191
fibreglass
325
Fido
78
filling station
- role in electric transport
261
finesse
273
finger millet
49
Finland
208,
216
fire
- electric
51
fire
51
firewood
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
Fischer
177
fish
137
flight
- boats that fly
279
- emissions
16,
36
- formation
270
- future of
132,
211
- myth about going slower
269
- optimal speed
272
- optimum height
277
flight record
277
Florø
312
flow
24,
84
fluctuations
186,
205,
210
fluff
141
fluorescent bulb
58
flux
38
flywheel
198
fog
11
food
38
- waste
43,
219
food miles
91
food waste
48
football
197
foreigners
5
forest
205,
235
formation flying
270,
278
formula
- kinetic energy
30
- wave
307
Formula One
333
Fossett
277
fossil fuel
203
- backup for wind
187
fossil fuels
5
- peaking of
5
Foyers
191
fractal
65
France
21,
171,
208,
209,
211
freezer
50
freight
133,
324
- energy consumption
92
fridge
94
fridge-freezer
50,
69
Friends of the Earth
19
frontal area
119,
255
fuel
- calorific value
29,
199
- energy density
29,
199
fuel cell
- bus
130
- direct carbon
158
fuel efficiency
36
fusion reactor
172
g 307
G-Wiz
127
- data
127
gadget
69
Gaia
2
gallium arsenide
40
gallon
331
galvanised steel
325
garden
147
gas
206
- landfill
287
- methane
287
- national demand
200
gas consumption
343
gas mantle
166
gas meter
334
gas pipeline
62
gasoline
31
GDP
105,
231,
336
geese
278
General Motors
129,
137
genetic engineering
44
genetic modification
43,
49,
285,
288
geoengineering
240
geothermal
96,
237
- enhanced
98
- hot dry rock
99
- Iceland
183
- magma
99
geothermal energy
96
geothermal mining
96
geothermal power
26,
96
Germany
21,
33,
34
get building
250
GHG, see greenhouse gas
giant vacuum cleaner
244
gigaton
240
gigawatt
25,
188
gigawatt-hour
25
giggle
25
Giza
332
Glasgow
33,
56
glass
88,
325
glasswool
325
glazing
294
glazing
141
Glendoe
56
glide number
273
glide ratio
273
global warming
10
GlobalFlyer
277
glorification of travel
4
GM
129
GM EV1
137
gmt 252 [not available in html edition of book]
gnuplot 252 [not available in html edition of book]
godwit
277
good-against-evil
100
goods
88
Goodstein
2
Google
239
gown
293
grain crops
286
granite
301,
302,
325
grass
42
gravity
307
grazing
78
Great Yarmouth
268
green algae
285,
288
Green Party
210
greenhouse effect
5,
10
greenhouse gas
10
greening electricity supply
131
Greenland icecap
10
Greenpeace
4,
19,
161,
210,
235,
269
Gretar Ivarsson
97
gross calorific value
31
ground-source heat pump
205
Grubb
226
guerrilla physics
31
GW
25
GW(e)
333
GWp
333
gypsum
325
hair-dryer
88
Haishan
321
Hammerfest
84
Hansen
248
hardboard
325
hardwood
284,
325
hate
4
Hawaii
6
heat
10
- waste
145
heat capacity
50,
302
heat engine
145
heat exchanger
297
heat flow
97
heat loss parameter
297
heat pump
26,
52,
205,
300,
301
- air source
151
- winter
153
heat-loss coefficient
140,
141,
291
heat-loss parameter
294,
295
Heathrow Airport
217
heating
203
- efficiency
292
- under-floor
151
Heatkeeper
297,
299
Heaton
43
hectare
246
height
277
heights
55
helicopter
128
Heliodynamics
40,
48
heliostats
184
helium
280
Helm
322
Helston
91
Herne Bay
60
HEU
102
high heat value
31
high-enriched uranium
102
highland hydroelectricity
56
highlands
55
- rainfall
55
history
108
hockey stick graph
19
home
4,
329
Honda
31,
139
- FCX Clarity
130
- fuel-cell car
130
hoop
263
Horns Reef
61,
65
horse
78
horsepower
28
hot air
51
hot dry rock
98,
99
hot water
26,
50
hours of sunshine
44
house
293
House of Lords
228
Housebuilder's Bible
66
household waste incineration
43
hp
333
Hummer
129,
130
HVDC
178, see high voltage DC
hybrid cars
126
- compared
126
- misleading advertising
126
hydraulics
126
hydrocarbon
29,
31
hydroelectricity
55,
206,
235
- highland
56
- Iceland
183
hydroelectricity production
343
hydrofoil
279
hydrogen
130,
285
- and boron
202
- and wind power
195
- calorific value
199
- energy cost of
139
- energy density
199
- from algae
285
- from bacteria
42
- plane
277
- production by nuclear power
174
- storage efficiency
196
hydrogen car
128,
130,
139
hydrogen vehicles
195
HyperCar
139
i MiEV
137
ice cores
6
ice-breaker
133
Iceland
96,
97,
183,
185,
197
IKEA
155
imported power
206
imports
322
- coal
343
- energy
209,
211
imprecision
16
inaccuracy
16
inactivist
8
incineration
- efficiency
44
- waste
43
Independent
8,
20,
66
Indermuhle
19
India
21,
166
Industrial Revolution
6,
9
information systems
68
infrared
10
insulation
141,
205,
296
insurance
217
interconnector
- England—France
179,
183
- Iceland
183
- Norway
197,
207
intercontinental flight
- emissions
16
intermittency
62
internet
21
investment
217
IPCC
36,
169,
249
Iraq war
221
Ireland
73,
187,
201,
312
- wind output
187
irresponsible journalism
8
irrigation
43
Isaac Asimov
115
island
- nuclear
174
Islay
75
Isles of Scilly
83
ITER
172
J-Power
194
jack-up barge
63,
67,
208,
216
Japan
21,
144,
151,
173,
268,
338
- efficiency legislation
153
jatropha
284
Jersey
310
Jersey Police
138
Jersey Water
93
JET
198
jet fuel
31
jet travel
211
- emissions
16
jet-ski
128,
130
Jevons
19,
157,
158,
186
joule
25,
328
journalism
8
journalist
139
jumbo jet
273
junk mail
4
Jutland
65
Kazakhstan
177,
338
kcal
76,
330
Keeling
19
keeping the lights on
68
kelvin
289
Kemp
135
Ken
72,
154
Kentish Flats
60,
64,
67,
216
kerosene
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
kettle
50,
51,
197
Khrushchev
281
kilocalorie
330
kiloton
101
kilowatt
50
kilowatt-hour
24
kilowatt-hour per day
24
kinetic energy
28,
255,
263,
307
kinetic-energy storage
198
king coal
8
King
228,
248
Kinlochewe
55,
56
knot
84
kW(e)
333
kWp
333
λ
307
La Rance
84,
85
Labour
19
laminar flow control
275
laminated wood
325
landfill
43,
88,
206,
207
landfill gas
287
landlord
227
Langeled
62,
63,
219
laptop computer
70
Larry
227
laser-printer
69,
70
last thing
240
laundry
50,
51
laws of physics
- conservation of energy
26
Lawson
8,
20
layer (chicken)
77
LCA, see lifecycle analysis
LCD (liquid crystal display)
70
lead-acid battery
- efficiency
202
- energy density
199
leadership
230
leakiness
141,
291,
293,
294
Learjet
128,
275
LED
58,
205
Leggett
228
lego
88
LEU
102
Lexus
126
- misleading advertising
126
Liberal Democrats
210,
213
Libya
177,
338
life-cycle
- of stuff
88
life-cycle analysis
88,
131
lifecycle analysis
324
lifestyle change
141
lift-to-drag ratio
273,
278
lightbulb
58
- incandescent
58
- LED
58
- low-energy
58
Lightning car
137
lights
57
Limits to Growth
174
Limpet
75
liquid fuels
- from plants
283
liquid salt
- energy storage
178
litany
10,
21
lithium
139,
172,
176
lithium fusion
172
lithium titanate
137
lithium-ion
137
lithium-ion battery
- efficiency
202
- energy density
199
lithium-ion polymer battery
- energy density
199
lithium-sulphur
202
litre
332
little square
236
Livingstone
154
Llyn Stwlan
191
load factor
33,
64,
66,
267,
268
Loch Lomond
192,
193
Loch Sloy
56,
193
loft insulation
141
logarithmic scale
7,
9
Lomborg
2
London
72,
154,
206,
217
London Array
66
London Underground
135
Loremo
137
Los Angeles
3
love
4
Lovelock
2
low heat value
31
low-enriched uranium
102
low-grade energy
39
low-grade heat
97
lowlands
55
- rainfall
55
LPG
94
lumber
325
lumens per watt
58
Lun
281
lunar energy
82
Luxembourg
21
m
329
magic playing field
4,
171
magma
99
magnesium silicate
246
Magnus platform
63
mains electricity
196
maize
49
make-up
219
Malin Head
312
manufacture
94
manufacturing
68,
131
manure
8
Manzanares
183
map
11
Maplin
68
Marchetti
174
margarine
29
Mastrandrea
15
Mayor of London
72,
154
Mazda
131
McCarthy
66
McMahon
72
McNuggets
42
MDF
325
meat
77
meat-eating
78
Mega City
137
megaton
101
membrane
92
mercury
58
metal
88
metapost 252 [not available in html edition of book]
meter reading
334
methane
43,
206,
287
methane hydrates
243
methanol
209
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
metre
328
Mexican wave
307
Mexico
235
micro-CHP
145
micro-generation
268
micro-turbine
268
microgeneration
63
microturbine
63
microwave
50,
51
microwind
63
Middle Ages
108
middlehen
78
middlesow
78
migration
278
military
221
- aid
221
milk
76
milliard
329
million
329
millpond
74
mine
186
mini-SUV
138
mini-turbine
268
mining
- coal
158,
161
- geothermal
96
Mio
329
mirror
40
miscanthus
43,
48,
205,
283
misleading advertising
126
misleading presentation
171
MIT
98,
99
mixing
92
mobile-phone charger
68,
72
Modec
138
modem
68
molten salt
178
monazite
166
moon
81,
82,
96
Moore
161
mortar board
293
motivations
5
motorcycle
11
motorway
217
Mrd
329
Mt
329
Mtoe
329
Mühlhausen
41,
48
multinational chemicals
89
multiple-junction photovoltaics
47
municipal solid waste
207,
284
mutton
78
MW(e)
333
MWp
333
MyCar
137
myth
- car inefficiency
119
- carbon trading
226
- food
79
- hydroelectricity
56
- new planes far more efficient
132
- nuclear power build rate
171
- offsetting
3,
226
- planes should fly slower
269
- solar panels
45
- walking
79
- wind reliability
201
Nanosafe
137
Nant-y-Moch
55
National Academy of Sciences
20
national gas demand
200
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
285
natural gas
206,
287
- demand varies
200
- national demand
200
Nature magazine
129,
139
Nazi invasion
110,
112,
267
neap tide
81,
84
Neftel
19
net calorific value
31
Netherlands
201
neutralization
3,
226,
244
New Jersey
236
New Mexico
182
New Scientist
4,
19
New Zealand
264
Newbery
226
newspaper
94,
95,
284,
287
newsprint
95
newton
259,
328
Newton's laws
269
nickel cadmium battery
- energy density
199
nickel metal hydride battery
- energy density
199
nickel-cadmium
89,
94
NIMBY
208
nitrogen
272
nitrous oxides
36
nomenclature
328
North America
234
North Hoyle
64,
268
North Sea
73,
82,
83
- oil
5
Northern Ireland
85
Norway
63,
84,
136,
190,
197,
219,
312
nose
296
nostril
296
NS Savannah
133
nuclear
211
- capacity
342
- hydrogen production
174
- power station closures
5,
342
- reactor
- breeder
163
- energy amplifier
166
- fusion
172
- once-through
162
- weapon
100,
161
- testing
220
nuclear clean-up costs
175
nuclear decommissioning authority
167,
175
nuclear power
2,
4,
18,
19,
68,
206
- costs
165,
167
- data by country
161
- decommissioning
165,
217
- inflexibility
186
- station
162
- build rate
171
- construction
169
- fuel required
165
nuclear radiation
- from coal power
168
nuclear reactor
- fast breeder
163
nuclear stockpile
220
numbers
4
O'Leary
36
oats
286
ocean
81
- uranium extraction
165
ocean circulation
242
ocean conveyor belt
162,
242
ocean liner
128,
133
Ocean Power Delivery
309
offsetting
3,
226,
244
offshore wind
60,
64
- cost
66
- data
64
- deep
60
- jack-up barges
63,
208,
216
- load factor
268
- shallow
60
oil
206
- North Sea
5
- price
5
oil consumption
284
oil field
64
oil platform
64
oil power stations
5
oilrig
60
oilseed rape
283
oilspinner
10
Okinawa
194
olivine
246
Olkiluoto
216
on-site renewables
300
once-through
162
orange
96
Orkney
82,
268
Otto cycle
136
Out of Gas
2
outlet
50
oven
50,
51
overcast day
45
oxygen
272
Oxygen Cargo
138
Oyster
310
ozone
36
p
333
p-km
118
packaging
88
paddling pool
82
paint
325
paper
3,
89,
95,
284,
322
- embodied energy
95
parabolic trough
178
particleboard
325
passenger-kilometre
118
Passivhaus
298
pasties
91
patio heater
52
peak
267
peak nuclear
2
peak oil
2,
5,
19
peak power
63
pedant
31,
65
pee
92
Pelamis
74,
208,
309
perfume
219
period
307
PET
- embodied energy
94
petagram
329
petrol
31
petrol engine
136
petrol pump
333
petroleum substitution
42
Pg
329
Phoenix SUT
138
phone
68
phone charger
4,
68
photosynthesis
43,
285
- efficiency
49
photovoltaic
38,
39
photovoltaic panels
45
physicist
2
physics
30
- conservation of energy
26
- Newton's laws
269
pick-ups
196
pig
77
pig-iron
9
pilot
277
pint
331,
332
pipeline
219
plan
163
plan D
207
plan E
211
plan G
210
plan L
209
plan M
214,
216
plan N
208
plane
35
- efficiency improvements
37
- myth about flying slower
269
- turboprop
35
planes
- boats as an example of
279
planet
10
- destruction
68
planet Dorkon
29
plant yields
48,
283
plants
- C3
49
- C4
49
- more efficient
49
plaster
325
plasterboard
325
plastic
88,
325
plutonium
101,
102
plywood
325
politics
203
polluter pays
14
pollution
58
pool
82
poplar
205,
283
poppycock
171
population density
33,
177,
213
- urban
152
population growth
7,
9,
115
population reduction
4,
115
pork
77
Porritt
2
positive feedback
243
potential energy
307
power
24
- confused with efficiency
47
- definition
24
- of sunshine
38
- standby
155
power density
41
- all renewables
112,
177
- biofuel
283
- concentrating solar power
178,
184
- highland hydroelectricity
56
- hot water panels
39
- hydroelectricity
55,
56
- miscanthus
43
- offshore wind
60
- photovoltaics
47
- plants
43
- rape
283
- sunshine
38
- wind
263
- wind farm
32
power meter
68
power per unit area, see power density
power per unit length
- tide
83,
312
- wave
74
power station
5,
26,
103,
330,
342
- closures
5
- coal
330
Powergen
342
ppm
248
presentation
4,
171
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
100,
133
Prestatyn
64
printer
70
Prius
126,
136
Process Energy Requirement
324
projector
70
pronunciation
25
propane
- calorific value
199
- energy density
199
ps
333
PS10
184
public negativity
250
public transport
204
pumped storage
86,
189,
191,
192,
210
- efficiency
191,
201
Punch and Judy show
250
PVC
325
pyramid
332
Qatar
21
QE2
128
quad
331
quart
331
quartz
302
Queen's University Belfast
310
quilt
10
radiator
51
radio
70
radioactive decay
96
rail
119,
258-
260
- energy consumption
92
- freight
92
rainfall
55
Rance
85
ranch
42
range
- electric car
261
- of bird
276
Range Rover
128
rape biodiesel
283
Rapley
115
Rau
19
RAV4
138
reactive power
72
reactor
167
- fast breeder
163
rechargeable battery
89,
94
recharging
261
record
277
recycling
88,
206
- data
207
refrigeration
26
refrigerator
50,
147
- manufacture
94
refrigerators
- and demand management
196
regenerative braking
125
religion
197
renewable energy
- research and development
221
renewable obligation certificate
66
renewables
186
reporters
68
research and development
221
REVA
127
reverse osmosis
92,
93,
196,
310
Rijndam
133
river
145
- uranium
165
River Deben
82
road freight
91
roadmap
203
ROC, see renewables obligation certificate
rock
96
Rocky Mountain Institute
139
rolling resistance
258
Rolls Royce
37
Rosemanowes
98
rotor
267
Royal Albert Hall
332
rubber
258,
325
Rubbia
166
rubbish
88
runaway feedbacks
243
Russia
21,
133,
237
Ryanair
36
Sahara
178
Saint-Malo
85
salinity
242
salt water
92
salt
178
Salter
135
- duck
309
San Francisco
120
Sandia National Laboratories
99
Saudi Arabia
6,
177,
220,
338
Saudi oil
9
sausage
270,
272
Sauven
19
Savannah
133
SAX-40
37
saying no
108
Scaled Composites
277
sceptic
6,
8
Schwarzenegger
130
Scotland
64,
83,
192,
198
- rainfall
56
screen
69
Scroby Sands
268
sea depths
61
sea snake
309
sea-level rise
10,
17
SeaBus
120
seawater
93,
162,
166,
172,
174,
176
- uranium extraction
165,
174
second
328
security of energy supply
5,
111
- wind
187
SELCHP
216,
287
separative work unit
102
sequestration
157,
240
servant
24
set-top box
68
Severn barrage
85
Severn Estuary
84
Seville
184
sexy personalities
205
Shadowfax
78
shallow offshore wind
60
shallow water
310
sheep
78
Shell
66,
219
Shell UK
60
Shetland
268
ship
9
- container
91
- cruise-ship
88
- energy consumption
92
- nuclear-powered
133
- painting
3
shipping
91,
95,
133
Shockley—Queisser limit
47
shop
88
short-rotation coppices
49
shower
50,
51
SI
328
Siberia
243
Siegenthaler
19
silent aircraft
37
simplification
16
Sinclair C5
66,
127
Sizewell
167
sleep
69
slew rate
188
slime
285
small is beautiful
161
Smart Car
136
Smith
60
Smola
63
snow
243
Snowdonia
191,
192
social costs
23
softwood
284,
325
solar
- farm
208
solar chimney
182
solar farm
41
solar heating
39
solar heating panels
301
solar hot water
205,
238
solar panels
39
- on cloudy day
45
solar photovoltaics
39
- biggest plant in world
48
- world total
41,
48
solar power
38
- concentrating
40
- parabolic trough
178
- in vehicles
131
solar power station
178
solar thermal electricity
184
solar updraft tower
182
solar warrior
40
Solarcentury
228
Solarpark
41,
48,
216
Solartres
184
Solúcar
184,
216
sorghum
49
South Africa
197
Southampton Geothermal District Heating Scheme
98,
99
space shuttle
219
spaceship
29,
255
Spain
178,
183
- wind
201
spark plug
44
speed
263,
307
speed-boat
130
spelling
328
spring tide
81,
84
square in desert
178,
236
stack
22
stadium
307
stainless steel
325
standby
69
standby power
155
STE
184
steak
77,
79
steam engine
6,
9
steel
89,
94,
325
- embodied energy
94
steel production
62
stereo
69
Stern review
221,
230
Stiglitz
221
Stirling engine
184
stockpile stewardship
220
stop-gap
96
stop-sign
255
storage
- kinetic energy
198
- molten salt
178
stove
50
Strangford Lough
85
Strathclyde University
202
straw
96,
288,
325
straw-burning power station
286
streamlined
255
street-light
59
stuff
13,
68,
88
submarine
281
subsidy
219
Sudan
177,
338
sugar beet
283
sugarcane
49
sun
96
sunlight
243
sunniness
38,
44
sunroof
131
sunshine
38
- data
238
superjumbo
132
sustainable
- definition
157
sustainable coal
158
Sustainable Development Commission
2,
106
sustainable energy
- environmental costs
23
- social costs
23
SUV
138
sweater wearing
205
Sweden
190,
197,
208
swimming pool
332
swirling air
255
switchgrass
49,
284
SWU
102,
173
t-km
118
tap
24
tax
219
taxman
3
tea
50,
332
Team Crocodile
119
teaspoon
69
technology
115
telephone
68
television
68,
103
temperature
50
temperature demand
292
tenant
227
tepid
26
terrorism
4
Tesco
219
Tesla Roadster
127
TEU
95,
332
Texas
182,
187,
201
th
333
Thames Estuary
64,
82,
83
The Skeptical Environmentalist
2
thermal conductivity
302
thermal fly-tipping
301
thermal mass
305
thermal solar
238
thermal transmittance
289
thermal
38
thermohaline circulation
242
thermostat
4,
141,
154
thin air
240
Think
136
thorium
166,
174
- in coal
175
- reserves
166
- resources
166
thorium oxide
166
three-wheeler
138
thrust
273
tidal barrage
206
tidal friction
96
tidal lagoon
86,
206,
211,
321
tidal power
82,
86
- two basins
320
tidal stream
206
tidal wave
83
Tiddles
78
tide
82,
237
- as waves
311
- compared with wind
86
- explanation
81
- in oceans
81
- two-way generation
311
- UK resource
321
tide is like wind
315,
316
tide speed
82
tide-pool
82
timber
325
Tina
227
tinyURL 344 [not available in html edition of book]
Titanic
68,
69
TNT
101
toaster
50
toe
329,
333
ton
331
ton-km
118
tonne
331, see ton
Toyota Prius
136
Toyota RAV4 EV
138
toys
68
traffic congestion
124
traffic lights
59
train
118-
120,
128,
258-
260
- freight
92
transformer
69
translation
370
transmission
209
transmission lines
211
transport
203
- efficiency
79
- bicycle
119,
134,
259
- catamaran
282
- eco-car
119
- electric car
127
- electric scooter
138
- freight
92
- plane
36,
274
- train
119,
134
- efficiency measures
119
travel
30
- average
30
- emissions
16
trees
43,
49,
284
- artificial
249
TREV
138
Trident
221
triple glazing
141
trolleybus
120
tropics
49
truth
68
Tsukuba City
268
tsunami
83,
311
tube of air
255
tumble dryer
51
turbine
145
turboprop
35,
128
turn down
154
turn-off-and-onable
186
TV pick-ups
196
Two-Seater Renewable Energy Vehicle
138
two-way generation
311
tyre
258
U-value
289,
294
UK
21
UK coal
6,
7,
9
UK electricity production
342,
343
UK territorial waters
61
uncertainty
11
under-floor heating
151
understanding
16
underwater windmill
83
unit conversion
334
United Kingdom
17, see UK
units
24,
329
- speed
263
- translation
370
University of South Australia
138
unplug
72
untrustworthy foreigners
5
updraft tower
- solar
182
uranium
101,
166,
206
- cost
165
- depleted
163
- extraction from seawater
165,
174
- in coal
175
- reserves
2,
162
URL, see web pointer
US military
102
USA
99,
234
- crops
49
USS Akron
280
vacuum cleaner
71
vacuum cleaner
244
Vader
68
Valentia
312
vampire power
155
Vancouver
120
Vectrix
138
vegan
77
vegetarian
4,
77
vegetarianism
78
vehicle
- electric
127
vehicle to grid
198
ventilation
289,
296
Venturi Fetish
138
Vestas
64
vicious cycle
243
Virgin
277
Virgin Trains
330
Viridian Solar
39
viscosity
309
VLS-PV, see very large scale photovoltaics
Volkswagen
255
volt
50
volume
24,
331,
332
- units
332
vortex
270
VRB power systems
200
W(e)
333
Wales
55,
60,
64,
78,
191,
268
Walkers crisps
80
walking
79
wall
294
war
100,
221
- Iraq
221
- on drugs
219
Wartsila—Sulzer
262
washing
51
waste food
43,
48,
219
waste heat
145
waste incineration
26,
43,
206,
207,
212
- efficiency
213
water
24,
36,
50
- cost of
92
- desalination
92
- embodied energy
95
- hot
50
- pumping
92
- shallow
310
water depths
61
water power
55
water vapour
73
watercraft
279
waterwheel
56
watt
68,
328
Watt
6,
9,
328
wave
73,
307,
308
- deep-water
307
- Mexican
307
- production by boats
92
- shallow-water
312
- source of
73
- tides as waves
311
wave speed
82
wave-farm
74
Wavegen
75
wavelength
307
we should have a plan that adds up
163
weapons
221
web pointer
Weetabix
42
Weier
72
weight
259
Wellington
264
Wembley
332
wheat
286
White
60
white-tailed eagles
63
Whitelee wind farm
33
Whitstable
60
Whorf
19
Wicks
111
willow
205,
283
wind
32,
210,
235,
307
- arguments against
187
- compared with tide
86
- cost
66
- data
32,
34,
187,
265
- deep offshore
61,
66
- intermittency
187
- Irish
188
- micro-wind
63,
66
- offshore
60
- cost
66
- jack-up barges
63,
208,
216
- London Array
66
- power density
60
- origin of
73
- Spain
201
wind farm
32,
214
- Whitelee
33
wind power and electric vehicles
195
wind turbine
34
Windermere
192
windmill
267
- underwater
83
window
294
Windsave WS1000
66
windspeed
- Cairngorm
32
- Cambridge
32,
34
- data
265
wing
270
winter
- heat pumps
153
wood
43,
49,
95,
284
Woodbridge
82
woolly jumper
141
world
17,
105,
221,
231,
336-
338
world coal
6,
7,
9
world coal production
7
world oil consumption
284
world solar power
41,
48
Wp
333
Xebra
137
Yamal
133
Yes Minister
228
yield
48
you can have only one row
315,
316
Ze-0
137
zeppelin
280