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Global dimming is the reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface that has been observed since systematic measurements began in the 1950s.

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A gland is a general type of stuffing box, used to seal a rotating or reciprocating shaft against a fluid.

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Similar to the Darrieus wind turbine but employing straight vertical blades attached to the mast by horizontal supports ressembling a H.

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Electric power unit equal to one billion watts used per hour.

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Electric power unit equal to one billion watts

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In thermodynamics, the Gibbs free energy is a thermodynamic potential that can be used to calculate the maximum reversible work that may be performed by a thermodynamic system at a constant temperature and pressure.

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A geyser is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.

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A geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust.

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Geothermal power is power generated by geothermal energy.

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Geothermal heating is the direct use of geothermal energy for some heating applications.

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A heat pump that uses the earth as a heat exchanger to either cool or heat a building. It uses the earth as a heat source in the winter (heating) and as a heat sink (cooling) in the summer. Also known as a ground source heat pump.

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Geothermal gradient is the rate of temperature change with respect to increasing depth in Earth's interior.

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Geothermal resource exploration, development, and production draw on the techniques of both the mining and oil/gas industries.

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Geothermal Energy is the energy which is naturally available within the earths sub subsurface. For electricity generation higher geothermal temperatures are required.

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Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.

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American entrepreneur and engineer who introduced an AC-based power distribution network in 1886.

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Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis.

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Geophysical fluid dynamics, in its broadest meaning, refers to the fluid dynamics of naturally occurring flows, such as lava flows, oceans, and planetary atmospheres, on Earth and other planets.

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Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing is a system for defining and communicating engineering tolerances.

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Geology is an Earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.