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Energy sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Energy.

Two houses showing different approaches to heating: heating people and heating spacesHeating people, heating spacesHump-Back Stations illustration: an above and below ground cross-section of an urban environment is shown, displaying the rise and fall of an underground transit tunnel as it approaches and departs a station platform - allowing gravity to play its part in slowing the train down, uphill as it comes into a station and accelerating it away, downhill on departure. Hump-back stationsWhat is Jevon's paradox in economics: fuel use tends to increase, not decrease, despite efficiency gains, with definition and example. Observation from William Stanley JevonsJevon’s ParadoxKoomey's LawKoomey’s LawThe fifth fuel — energy efficiency — the cheapest of them allThe Fifth Fuel: energy efficiency
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