BASIC NEEDs Inventions
 Fuels Power Heat
electric solar renewable
POWER SOURCEs
Year
.
.
POWER SOURCEs
Year
.
Renewable WIND WATER
CE
Place - Person
.
ELECTRIC
CE
Place - Person
windmill
600
Afghanistan
.
Leyden Jar
1745
.
tide mill
1200
europe
.
Voltaic Cell
1800
.
cogeneration
1882
US -Thomas Edison
.
Direct Current
?
.
municipal steam
82
US -New York City
.
Dynamo
31
.
.
.
.
.
Electrolysis
34
.
geothermal
1904
Italy
.
Transformer
55
.
solar water heating
20
US -flat plate collectors
.
Tesla Coil
91
.
Ocean thermal energy convert
30
OTEC -Cuba
.
Photo Electric Cell
93
.
.
.
.
.
Alternating Current
95
.
Non-Renewable FUELs
BCE
Place - Person
.
Hydro-electric
.
.
Whale Oil
?
.
.
.
.
.
Tallow
?
.
.
Battery
Year
.
Bees Wax
?
.
.
Voltaic Cell
1800
.
coal
?
.
.
Wet Cell
1860
.
.
CE
.
.
Dry Cell
1866
.
Methane
1500
.
.
Lead Acid
1880
.
Crude Oil
1859
.
.
.
1900
.
Kerosene
60
.
.
Alkaline
49
.
Naphtha
60
.
.
Ni Cad -nickel cadmium
46
.
Paraffin Wax
67
.
.
NiMH -nickel metl hydride
87
.
Diesel
92
GR -Rudolf Diesel
.
Li-ion -lithium ion
91
.
Acetylene
1900
.
.
.
.
.
Gasoline
10
.
.
Solar
.
Place - Person
Propane LPG
13
US -Walter Snelling
.
solar cell
1846
US -Russell Ohl
Ethyl gasoline
22
.
.
1% efficient cell
83
US -Charles Fritts
biofuels
37
Belgium
.
solar water heating
1920
US -flat plate collectors
Paraffin wax- Synthetic
45
.
.
5% efficient cell
46
US -Russell Ohl
Carnuba Wax
?
.
.
6% efficient cell
54
US -Bell Labs
Candelilla Wax
?
.
.
8% efficient cell
57
US -AT&T
Nuclear
45
.
.
14% efficient cell
60
US -Hoffman
neuclear power plant
51
US -Idaho
.
10% thin film cell
80
US -U of Delaware
.
.
.
.
20% efficient cell
85
US -U New S Wales
HEATING SYSTEMs
Year
.
.
refective solar concentrator
89
.
Water
.
.
.
30% efficient cell
94
concentrator -NREL
Radiator
?
.
.
42% efficient cell
2007
US -U of Delaware
Under Floor
?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Fuel Cell
.
.
Air
.
.
.
phosphoric-acid
1838
GER -Friedrich Schönbein
Hot Air Gravity
1839
.
.
Proton exchange membrane
1966
US -GE
Hot Air Fan
1930
.
.
solid oxide
2003
GER -BMW
Swamp Cooling
1935
.
.
Molten carbonate
06
GER -MTU
Air Conditioning
?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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