Know It All Energy: The 50 Most Elemental Concepts in Energy, Each Explained in Under a Minute, Paperback

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As a phenomenon that resides everywhere and in everything, energy is best understood by example. Exploring energy shows how it cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed--and how plankton and other ancient ocean-dwelling organisms can be used to power your car. Reducing the subject to its essential areas, Know-It-All Energy charts fascinating and fundamental topics, from the nuclear fusion reactor at the heart of the sun and civilization's discovery of our first hands-on energy source in fire almost 400, 000 years ago, to the elusive dark energy which makes up most of the content of the universe.