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A family of chemicals composed primarily of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine whose principal applications are as refrigerants and industrial cleansers and whose principal drawback is the tendency to destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer.
Industry:Energy
A facility that produces fuel or energy from municipal solid waste.
Industry:Energy
A door-like device located at the mouth of a fireplace chimney flue for controlling the direction and flow of the draft in the fireplace as well as the amount of oxygen that the fire receives.
Industry:Energy
A diagram that indicates the average percentage of time that the wind blows from different directions, on a monthly or annual basis.
Industry:Energy
A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material.
Industry:Energy
A device, or system of devices, that allows electrical current to flow through it and allows voltage to occur across positive and negative terminals.
Industry:Energy
A device where sunlight concentrated onto a absorber heats it to a high temperature, and the thermal radiation emitted by the absorber is used as the energy source for a photovoltaic cell that is designed to maximize conversion efficiency at the wavelength of the thermal radiation.
Industry:Energy
