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energy

Energy is the ability to do work: move, give off heat, give off light, etc. Unlike coal or oil, atomic energy production creates little air pollution. Higher electricity prices should help promote energy efficiency. The amount of energy in 100g or 100ml of food is much higher for foods with a lot of sugar. She's all full of energy and she can't sit still. This problem has taken up most of her time and energy for over a year.

energy

(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs energy can take a wide variety of forms (= zip) forceful exertion he plays tennis with great energy he's full of zip enterprising or ambitious drive Europeans often laugh at American energy (= muscularity) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) his writing conveys great energy a remarkable muscularity of style any source of usable power the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy (= vim) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity jogging works off my excess energy he seemed full of vim and vigor

Energy

the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

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Energy Department Department of Energy DOE

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Simple sentences

We can cut down on our use of energy.
I spent all my energy on that project.
The President called on everyone to save energy.
I had bags of energy.
There will be an energy crisis in the near future.
Engineers are crazy about solar energy.
We are in the era of atomic energy.
We mustn't waste our energy resources.
What a waste of energy!
Our country is running short of energy resources.
The house is heated by solar energy.
We often hear about an energy crisis these days.
No matter how old I get, I'll still have the energy to play ping-pong.
You have more energy than I.
It is desirable that atomic energy should be used for peaceful purposes.
Children are full of energy.
We should make use of atomic energy.
We should make the most of solar energy.
We are exploring new sources, such as solar and atomic energy.
We must reduce energy demand.
Let us stop to think how much we depend upon atomic energy.
Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.
The Doppler effect is also observed with light and with radiant energy in general.

Movie subtitles

They'll say you need an energy source, you need oxygen, you need water, you need carbon, you need organic compounds, you need amino acids, you need all this stuff.
But the most important is its distance from our energy source - the sun.
We know liquid water plays a role, and we know life needs an energy source.
And for a long time, scientists believed that every single life form on Earth got their energy from our star.
Without sunlight, there was something else giving this life energy.
Europa sits well outside the Goldilocks Zone, but just like at the bottom of Earth's oceans, hydrothermal vents could be the energy source needed for life to emerge.
Do you think he even has the energy to worry about that?
Everytime she makes an attempt I lose so much of my energy.
It's your chi, your sexual energy.
There was, like, an energy - drawing us together, you know? - Yeah.
In the meantime, I'm sure it takes all your energy just putting one foot in front of the other.
A light snack in the first stages of labour can actually help build up some energy.
Why waste energy on someone with no intention of staying?
All of Los' brain power and energy has been devoted to one task. -the trip to Mars, and in his imagination he often pictures.
And in the first case the system has more energy than in the second case.
His mental energy has intensified.
The average lawyer puts his energy into his argument, but it's in the hands of his adversary.
I give all my energy to my duties, and what do I get?
I serve the people with all my thoughts, with all my energy. with all my dreams, waking and sleeping.
Isn't it a waste of energy?
Say, you don't mind if I save my energy and just become nothing for a while, do you?
You'd better save your energy.
If you think you can persuade me that a man of your energy and your ability possibly could quit at 30..
Young energy.
Because there's a tiny little engine in the green of this grass and in the green of the trees that has the mysterious gift of being able to take energy from the rays of the sun and store it up.
A few tools wouldn't take that much energy.
Seems like a frightful waste of energy.
There's an awful lot of energy wasted in the world these days.
If you crack each separate louse, think of all the energy you use up.
He saves his energy indeed. But he will never achieve anything.
We don't strain our muscles so we're not burning energy.
I'm bursting with energy and desire to work.
Well, we've been having lectures in atomic energy at school.
Because when you combine atomic energy with jet propulsion and radar and guided missiles, well, just think of the..
All this atomic energy and scientific efficiency.
You can't bottle up all that energy very long.
The thing we pay most dearly for, snatch from each other, fight for, the thing we only obtain by force of genius, or by luck, by meanness, by privation, by wild efforts, resolution, energy, audacity or work?
The idea seethes in 'Ntoni's head. Save your energy.
The energy that young people have. makes them want to point out injustice, like St. Thomas did.

News and current affairs

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran began enriching uranium at a pilot centrifuge plant last August, and is constructing larger underground enrichment facilities.
Iran proclaims that its programs are for peaceful generation of nuclear energy, but inspectors have already found traces of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium.
Countries that wish to develop nuclear energy but not nuclear bombs should be given international guarantees of fuel supply and disposal of spent fuel.
Such a resolution would also include a carrot by guaranteeing Iran access to the non-dangerous parts of the nuclear energy fuel cycle.
Moreover, the alternatives to nuclear energy - and to fossil fuels - are well known and technically much more advanced and sustainable.
Why, then, do the most advanced countries, in particular, take on the risk of a mega-catastrophe by seeking to create energy from radioactive fission?
This political power, not the requirements of energy policy, is what makes giving up nuclear energy so difficult.
Most importantly, price signals that show the true social costs of energy derived from fossil fuels will encourage innovation and conservation.
For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia's budget, and lack of investment in the country's energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
And global warming's impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.
While CFLs are more expensive to buy, they are much cheaper over their lifespan, because they use much less energy (even more so with the cost of CO2 factored into taxes on electricity).
For some people, energy-efficient bulbs can trigger epileptic seizures and migraines.
The answer, ultimately, doesn't lie with any civilian use of nuclear energy, but first and foremost with its military applications.
The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.
What, then, will a future risk assessment look like if significantly less organized and developed countries begin - with the active assistance of the nuclear powers - to acquire civilian nuclear-energy capabilities?
In a time of official lies, healthy investigative energy should shed light, not just generate heat.

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