NALT

Preferred term

primary energy

Topic

Primary energy should be used to designate those sources that only involve extraction or capture, with or without separation from contiguous material, cleaning or grading, before the energy embodied in that source can be converted into heat or mechanical work.

energy accounting

embodied energy

upstream energy

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

71979

Spanish

energía primaria

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/198472

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Created 4/3/13, last modified 12/6/13