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Energypedia is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of knowledge regarding Energy. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.
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Energypedia&nbsp;is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of knowledge regarding Energy. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information. GTZ does not accept any liability or give any guarantee for the validity, accuracy and completeness of the information provided. GTZ assumes no legal liabilities for damages, material or immaterial in kind, caused by the use or non-use of provided information or the use of erroneous or incomplete information, with the exception of proven intentional or grossly negligent conduct on the side of GTZ. <br>
  
That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Energypedia; much of the time you will. However, '''Energy''''''pedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.''' The content of any given article may recently have been changed or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.
 
  
=== <span class="mw-headline" id="No_formal_peer_review">No formal peer review</span> ===
 
  
We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles.&nbsp;However, Energypedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review <font color="#0645ad">peer review</font>], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.
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That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Energypedia; much of the time you will. However, Energypedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.' The content of any given article may recently have been changed or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.  
  
'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with Energypedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''
 
  
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This site contains links to third-party web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of GTZ and GTZ is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.
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=== <span class="mw-headline" id="No_formal_peer_review">No formal peer review</span>  ===
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We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles.&nbsp;However, Energypedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review <font color="#0645ad">peer review</font>], they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.
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'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with Energypedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''
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=== <span class="mw-headline" id="No_contract.3B_limited_license">No contract; limited license</span> ===
  
 
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Energypedia contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project subject to your claims against them directly.  
 
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Energypedia contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in ''any way connected'' with this project subject to your claims against them directly.  
  
There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Energypedia''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License <font color="#0645ad">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License</font>] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License <font color="#0645ad">GNU Free Documentation License</font>] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Energypedia responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Energypedia or any of its associated projects.
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There is '''no agreement or understanding between you and Energypedia''' regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License <font color="#0645ad">Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License</font>] (CC-BY-SA) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License <font color="#0645ad">GNU Free Documentation License</font>] (GFDL); neither is anyone at Energypedia responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Energypedia or any of its associated projects.  
  
=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Trademarks">Trademarks</span> ===
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=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Trademarks">Trademarks</span> ===
  
Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Energypedia encyclopedia are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Energypedia articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated&nbsp;Energypedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Energypedia cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
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Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Energypedia encyclopedia are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Energypedia articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated&nbsp;Energypedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Energypedia cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.  
  
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=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Personality_rights">Personality rights</span> ===
  
Energypedia contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights <font color="#0645ad">personality rights</font>], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''
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Energypedia contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights <font color="#0645ad">personality rights</font>], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. ''You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.''  
  
 
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Energypedia is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of knowledge regarding Energy. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information. GTZ does not accept any liability or give any guarantee for the validity, accuracy and completeness of the information provided. GTZ assumes no legal liabilities for damages, material or immaterial in kind, caused by the use or non-use of provided information or the use of erroneous or incomplete information, with the exception of proven intentional or grossly negligent conduct on the side of GTZ.


That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Energypedia; much of the time you will. However, Energypedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.' The content of any given article may recently have been changed or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.


This site contains links to third-party web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of GTZ and GTZ is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.

No formal peer review

We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of articles. However, Energypedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with Energypedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

No contract; limited license

Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Energypedia contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project subject to your claims against them directly.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and Energypedia regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL); neither is anyone at Energypedia responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Energypedia or any of its associated projects.

Trademarks

Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Energypedia encyclopedia are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any other purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Energypedia articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Energypedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Energypedia cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.

Personality rights

Energypedia contains material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.