heat sources
Things producing warmth
Heat sources are things that generate or supply thermal energy.
The term appears in contexts ranging from household to scientific: a stove is a heat source for cooking, the sun is Earth's primary heat source, and geothermal vents are heat sources for deep-sea ecosystems.
In survival contexts, finding or creating a heat source becomes urgent: We need to establish a heat source before nightfall.
- electric heatersPlug-in warming appliances
- space heaterPortable electric warming appliance
- combustion enginesFuel-igniting mechanical power sources
- forest firesUncontrolled woodland blazes
- warm bloodedInternally temperature-regulated
furnaces · central heating · friction · friction burn · radioactive decay · gas burners · wood stove · volcanic activity · sun · nuclear reactors · lightning · steam engines · geothermal vents · thermal vents · hot springs · microwaves · infrared lamps · cellular respiration
- Heat Sciencethermal equilibrium, thermal expansion, thermal radiation, conduction, convection
- planetary formationplanetesimals, protoplanet, solar nebula, planet formation, planetesimal
heat sourcescooling systems
Mechanisms that dissipate heat
air conditioners · air conditioning · heat sinks · coolers · chillers