Portal talk:Energy

How you can help Suggest future content You might like to suggest or comment on a future: "did you know" fact on the "did you know" subpage selected article on the selected article sub page selected biography on the selected biography subpage selected picture on the selected picture subpage. quotation on the quotations subpage. Other ideas Browse through the energy categories, energy stubs or the list of energy topics and improve one of the articles Create an account and start an energy-related article Help with one of the specific tasks identified here on the portal If you are a Wikipedian Add a news item Can you add a news story of international or regional interest to the energy portal news section? Perhaps starting the article yourself in response to a news event? If you're unsure about suitability, you could ask for comments on the energy news subpage. Help more generally Join one of the energy-related WikiProjects that are listed on the portal. Watch the portal pages for changes and vandalism Paste the tag {{EnergyPortal}} (or {{Portal|Energy}}) on energy-related pages to generate the portal link icon (See the discussion on how and where it's appropriate to do this here) Show your support Show your support - and add yourself to the list of Wikipedians plugged into the Energy Portal - by pasting one of these user boxes onto your user page (according to your colour preference!): Paste this text... ...to get this tag {{User energy portal blue}} This user is plugged into the Energy Portal. {{User energy portal red}} This user is plugged into the Energy Portal. {{User energy portal blaze}} This user is plugged into the Energy Portal. Help maintain this portal This portal is popular[1] and deserves to be improved! So why not come back and help more regularly? In particular your help is needed to: Add news stories Add good quality pictures and captions to the 'selected picture' pool Add facts to the 'Did you know?' section Add quotations to the 'Quotations' section Update the 'Things you can do' section Update the archived 'selected articles' and biographies ready for reuse Add the portal pages to your watch list and correct editing errors or vandalism This page may give you some further ideas for improvements. In return, why not reward yourself with this extra user box? Paste this text... ...to get this tag {{User energy portal maintenance}} This user helps maintain the Energy Portal.

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Wikipedians who maintain the Energy Portal

Category:Wikipedians who maintain the Energy Portal, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.

Infobox dam

There is a discussion concerning usage of flag icons within template:Infobox dam, similar we had for template:Infobox power station. There was earlier consensus that in case hydroelectric power station has also a dam, it uses template:Infobox dam instead of template:Infobox power station as power generation information is integrated into dam infoboxes. Therefore, the discussion is relevant also for this Portal. Your comments are welcome. Beagel (talk) 08:07, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Categories for Pipelines (Oil & Natural Gas)

Please see my proposal to rationalise and separate the listing of oil and natural gas pipelines by country, access discussion via Category:Pipelines in Germany. Hugo999 (talk) 14:29, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Nuclear power by country

Category:Nuclear power by country has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Beagel (talk) 07:35, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Sustainability, sustainable development, and engineering emerging technologies

Due to a potential appearance of conflict of interest concerns[2] I have started a Request for Comments on engineering sustainable development. Tim AFS (talk) 06:21, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Ion thruster

In the second paragraph article: "Ion thrusters' exhaust velocity are often in the range of 15–50 kilometres per second (1,500–5,100 s), and will have a specific thrust usually below a newton per tonne. Thruster efficiency may reach 60–80%."

But Input power: 1 to 7 kilowatts Exhaust velocity: 20 to 50 kilometers per second Thrust: 20 to 250 millinewtons Efficiency: 60 to 80 percent. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 00:56, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

@Vyacheslav84: I suggest you either edit the article again yourself, or post at Talk:Ion thruster. Not many editors will see messages left on this "portal talk" page. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:10, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion for "Explore topics & categories" section of portal

The Environmental Impacts section seems to be under the Fossil Fuels section. This seems to me to be somewhat misleading. Dams used for hydro-power can change the course of rivers or other water sources and negatively affect the nearby environment, and places downstream. Making bio-fuels requires cutting down plants, which would otherwise have helped with reducing carbon levels. Windmills can hurt many birds that fly though the area they are in. And these are just some environmental impacts with renewable power sources that I can think of off the top of my head. I am definitely pro-renewable power, but I still think that placing environmental impacts right beneath fossil fuels only is misleading. I wanted to say this in case someone has any objections, and also because I'm not really good with behind-the-scenes stuff. :) JonathanHopeThisIsUnique (talk) 19:44, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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Contrast is hard on the eyes

Could we possibly change the color scheme for this portal? The supersaturated indigo combined with the white in regular intervals is an eyesore. Is this just me? It's almost unreadable. Josprien (talk) 21:19, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done. @Josprien: Check it out now; changed the background color in the headers to a light yellow, with black text. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:41, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Looks great, thanks! Josprien (talk) 01:41, 3 May 2021 (UTC)