Specialized Dictionary of Energy
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Focusing on Terms about Energy, a Vital Resource for Global Survival
Due to its overarching macroeconomic importance, energy is now a precious commodity in global financial markets.
- Energy issues pervade global geopolitics, and will continue to do so in light of the increasing concentration of oil supplies in the Middle East coupled with rising global energy demands.
- Energy is central to global environmental changes as emissions from energy usage contribute significantly to the human component of climate change.
- Finally, and most importantly, access to modern energy services is a fundamental prerequisite to alleviating poverty from the lives of the three billion people who are living below subsistence levels.
In education, since energy is the common link between the living and non-living realms of the universe, it is therefore an integrator across all fields in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
Virtually every discipline investigates some aspect of energy, including history, anthropology, public policy, international relations, human and ecosystem health, economics, technology, physics, geology, ecology, business management, environmental science, and engineering.
The concept of energy is applicable at all levels of formal education and life long learning.
Consumers are increasingly confronted with decisions about the cost and availbility of different forms of household energy, while diverse groups in civil society organize around political, social, and environmental ramifications of the energy system.
There is a wealth of information about energy, but it is spread across many books, journals, websites, disciplines, ideologies, and user communities.
Information about energy tends to target either a particular form of energy or a specific audience.
A commonly agreed upon set of terms and definitions is essential to build communication among disparate groups, and to improving the general public's understanding of energy issues.
This is especially true as new words are generated, and old ones are discarded, and as technoloies, institutions, and behaviors change.
An authoritative dictionary is important for an area in which identical words mean very different things; for example, "efficiency" and "elasticity" mean different things to an economist and an engineer.
Definitions in the Dictionary
The definitions follow the principle that a term should not be defined using terminology that is more difficult to understand than the term itself, so that the reader will not have to look up other terms in order to fully comprehend the original definition.
Even beyond this, the compilers say they have tried to make sure that all definitions provide scientific accuracy within a context that is concise and understandable.
This Word Info site includes many words that are used in our modern age, especially those from "Latin and Greek sources".