unavailable energy

unavailable energy
Energy that is converted by an irreversible process into a form that is unavailable to do work

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  • unavailable energy — noun : energy that is incapable of doing work under existing conditions compare available energy, degradation of energy, entropy …   Useful english dictionary

  • Other unavailable capability —   Net capability of main generating units that are unavailable for load for reasons other than full forced outage or scheduled maintenance. Legal restrictions or other causes make these units unavailable.   U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy… …   Energy terms

  • available energy — noun physics : that part of the energy of bodies or systems which exists under such conditions that work may be theoretically derived from it compare degradation of energy, entropy, unavailable energy …   Useful english dictionary

  • available energy — noun All energy that could somehow be converted to mechanical work See Also: unavailable energy …   Wiktionary

  • World energy resources and consumption — In order to directly compare world energy resources and consumption of energy, this article uses SI units and prefixes and measures energy rate (or power) in watts (W) and amounts of energy in joules (J). One watt is one joule per second. In 2005 …   Wikipedia

  • Environmental impact of the energy industry — Rate of world energy usage in terawatts (TW), 1965 2005.[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Intermittent energy source — An intermittent energy source is any source of energy that is not continuously available due to some factor outside direct control. The intermittent source may be quite predictable, for example, tidal power, but cannot be dispatched to meet the… …   Wikipedia

  • Convective available potential energy — A skew T plot showing a morning sounding with a large hydrolapse followed by an afternoon sounding showing the cooling which occurred in the mid levels resulting in an unstable atmosphere as surface parcels have now become negatively buoyant. The …   Wikipedia

  • dissipation of energy — a physical process (as the cooling of a body in the open air) by which energy becomes not only unavailable but irrecoverable in any form compare conservation of energy, degradation of energy * * * dissipation of energy (physics) Degradation of… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Outage —   A discontinuance of electric power supply.   Time during which service is unavailable from a generating unit, transmission line, or other facility.   ***   The period during which a generating unit, transmission line, or other facility is out… …   Energy terms

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