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Energy Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of energy, from coal, oil and nuclear power to solar, wind and the technologies that convert, move and store them. Search any source and follow its threads through the technology, the facility and the pioneer that built it.

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Concepts

Soiling (solar energy)

Soiling is the buildup of material such as mineral dust, bird droppings, fungi, lichen, pollen, engine exhaust or agricultural emissions on the light

Energy Projects

Tengger Desert Solar Park Project

The Tengger Desert Solar Park Project was built on the edge of the Tengger Desert in China's Ningxia region as part of the country's push to expand ut

Energy Sources

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

A renewable technology that uses the temperature difference between warm surface seawater and deep cold water to run a heat engine and generate steady

Technologies

Sagebien Wheel

The Sagebien wheel is a type of water wheel invented by the French hydrological engineer Alphonse Sagebien, a graduate of the Ecole Centrale des Arts

Power Stations and Infrastructure

Larderello Geothermal Field

The Tuscan field where geothermal electricity began: Prince Piero Ginori Conti's generator of 1904 produced ten kilowatts and lit five bulbs, and the

Agencies and Organizations

World Nuclear Association

World Nuclear Association is the international organization representing the global nuclear industry, with members drawn from every part of the nuclea

Pioneers

Willis R. Whitney

Willis Rodney Whitney was an American chemist, born in 1868 in Jamestown, New York and died January 9, 1958 in Schenectady, New York, known as the fat

Milestones

Chernobyl Disaster

On 26 April 1986 reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, the worst nuclear accident in

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Nuclear engineering and geology, together with energy policy

When will deep geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste become operational at scale?

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