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An introduction to energy resources
An introduction to energy resources

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2 Energy, work, power and efficiency

In everyday speech we often refer colloquially to the powerful politician, the energetic child, the working mother and the efficient administrator. We use these terms imprecisely, and often wrongly, compared with their scientific definitions.