Archive for the ‘primary energy’ Category:
Primary Energy Sources
March 12th, 2009 1 Comment Posted in energy sources, primary energy
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PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCES
The traditional way of classifying primary energy sources is as follows:
Fossil fuels:
- Solid (coal, petroleum coke or petcoke)
- Liquid (petroleum fuels, gas liquids and derivatives e.g. condensate, methanol, ethanol)
- Gas (natural gas, LPG, hydrogen)
Nuclear fuels (uranium, plutonium)
Renewable energy (hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, ocean, biomass, wastes)
The California Energy Commission has a different way of classifying fuel and technology cycles:
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