Dictionary of Energy
Covering all aspects of energy and its role in society, this unique text provides a comprehensive and organized body of knowledge on what is certain to become an increasingly vital area of scientific study in the 21st century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Dictionary of Energy
Q: quad quintessence
quad quintessence
quad
Measurement. a unit of energy equivalent to 10 15 British thermal units, or approximately 1.055 10 18 joules.
Quadricycle
History. an early self-propelled car developed by Henry Ford (1896); a four-wheeled vehicle built on a steel frame with no body, steered by a tiller. [So named because it ran on four bicycle type wheels.]
quadrupole
Electricity. a characteristic distribution of charges or magnetic poles formed by placing two electric or magnetic dipoles in close proximity to each other, usually in an alternating-pole arrangement.
qualifying facility
Electricity. a cogenerator or small power producer that has the legal right to sell its excess power output to a public utility.
quantitative risk analysis
another term for PROBABILISTIC RISK ANALYSIS.
quantity-based
Policy. describing a policy that specifies a quantity outcome (as opposed to a price-based policy such as an environmental tax or subsidy); e.g., the renewable portfolio standard policy, which requires production of a specific quantity of electricity.
quantize
Physics. to restrict the magnitude of a given physical quantity to that of a single member of a discrete set of values; these are typically integral multiples of some fundamental unit, or quantum. Thus, quantization.
quantum
Physics. plural, quanta; the fundamental unit of electromagnetic energy that is absorbed in integral multiples of E = hv,...
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