LIST OF ENERGY RESOURCES

The sources and methods by which energy can be tapped can be listed as follows:
These are modes of energy production, energy storage or energy conservation, listed alphabetically. Note that not all sources are accepted as legitimate or have been proven to be tappable.

★ Abiogenic petroleum origin

★ Alcohol fuel

★ Anaerobic digestion

★ Animal energy

★ Atomic energy

★ Banki turbine - hydro power, like overshot

★ Battery (electricity)

★ Beer battery

★ Bioalcohol

★ Biodiesel

★ Biodiesel production

★ Biofuel

★ Biogas

★ Biomass

★ Bio-nano generator

★ Bitumen

★ Bubble fusion - a nuclear fusion reaction hypothesized to occur during sonoluminescence, an extreme form of acoustic cavitation.

★ Coal

★ Coal mining

★ Cold fusion

★ Combustion

★ Compound turbine - two axle, steam

★ Deep lake water cooling

★ Diesel

★ Dyson sphere

★ Energy tower

★ External combustion engine


★ Fast breeder reactor

★ Fischer-Tropsch process

★ Flywheel (storage)

★ Fossil fuel

★ Francis turbine

★ Fuel - A substance used as a source of energy, usually by the heat produced in combustion.

★ Fuel cell

★ Fuel efficiency

★ Fusion power

★ Gas turbine

★ Gasohol

★ Geothermal exchange heat pump

★ Geothermal heating

★ Geothermal power

★ Green building

★ Green power

★ Grid energy storage

★ Heavy crude

★ Heliostat - device that tracks the movement of the sun

★ Helium-3

★ Hot-Dry-Rock - method to produce geothermal power in places where there is little underground water

★ Human energy

★ Hydrocarbon

★ Hydroelectricity

★ Hydrogen economy

★ Hydropower

★ Implosion

★ Kaplan turbine

★ Light crude

★ Liquid fuel

★ Liquid nitrogen economy

★ Methane clathrate

★ Methanol

★ Methanol economy

★ Natural gas

★ Natural gas field

★ Natural gas vehicle

★ Nuclear energy

★ Nuclear fusion

★ Nuclear reactor

★ Nuclear reprocessing

★ Oil drilling

★ Oil exploration

★ Oil platform

★ Oil refinery

★ Oil shale

★ Oil well

★ OTEC - Ocean thermal energy conversion

★ Oxidation

★ Peat

★ Petroleum

★ Photovoltaics

★ Piezoelectricity

★ Pneumatics - compressed air

★ Products based on refined oil

★ Propellant

★ Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

★ Pyrolysis

★ Renewable energy

★ Savonius wind turbine - wind

★ Small hydro

★ Solar box cooker

★ Solar cell

★ Solar chimney

★ Solar panel

★ Solar power

★ Solar power satellite

★ Solar thermal energy

★ Solar updraft tower - large version of the solar chimney concept

★ Solid fuel

★ Sonoluminescence - the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.

★ SSTAR

★ Steam turbine

★ Stirling engine

★ Straight vegetable oil (SVO)

★ Stranded gas reserve

★ Sulfur-iodine cycle

★ Sustainable design

★ Synfuel

★ Syngas

★ Tar sands

★ Tesla turbine

★ Thermal depolymerization

★ Thorium

★ Tidal power

★ Transmutation

★ Turgo turbine impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications

★ Tyson turbine - for river flow harnessing


★ UASB

★ Uranium

★ Vacuum energy

★ Vibration energy scavenging

★ Vortex energy

★ Water turbine

★ Wave power

★ Wind energy

★ Wind farm

★ Wind turbine

★ Wood fuel

★ Wood gas

★ Zero-point energy