List of energy resources
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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)
- 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
Spoked flywheel
- 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
- 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
