Conservation of Energy Sent Science in a New Direction

This year is the 200th anniversary of the confirmation of the conservation of energy, marked by the publication of British engineer Peter Ewart’s paper “On the Measure of Moving Force” in 1813.  Of course, the consequences of this are enormous.  For one, we’re no longer on the hunt for perpetual motion machines.  What we are looking for, however, are economically feasible means of taking enormous quantities of energy, e.g., that which has come from the sun, and harvesting them into useful work, by converting one form of energy into another.

Here’s an infographic on energy that readers may find useful.