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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industrie: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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One million watts of electric capacity.
Industry:Energy
A passenger car with more than 120 cubic feet of interior passenger and luggage volume.
Industry:Energy
A group of man-made chemicals composed of one or two carbon atoms and varying numbers of hydrogen and fluorine atoms. Most HFCs have 100-year Global Warming Potentials in the thousands.
Industry:Energy
One thousand kilowatt-hours or 1million watt-hours.
Industry:Energy
A pickup truck weighing between 4,500-8,500 lbs gross vehicle weight (GVW).
Industry:Energy
The lightest of all gases, occurring chiefly in combination with oxygen in water; exists also in acids, bases, alcohols, petroleum, and other hydrocarbons.
Industry:Energy
An organic chemical compound that has a sulfur like odor that is added to natural gas before distribution to the consumer, to give it a distinct, unpleasant odor (smells like rotten eggs). This serves as a safety device by allowing it to be detected inthe atmosphere, in cases where leaks occur.
Industry:Energy
The distance on the earth's surface measured, respectively, north or south of the equator and eastor west of the standard meridian, expressed in angular degrees, minutes,and seconds.
Industry:Energy
An important chemical scavenger of many trace gases in the atmosphere that are greenhouse gases. Atmospheric concentrations of OH affect the atmospheric lifetimes of greenhouse gases, their abundance, and, ultimately, the effect they have on climate.
Industry:Energy
A coke plant where coke is produced primarily for sale on the commercial (open) market.
Industry:Energy