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A power source is a source of power.
PowerSource may also refer to:
- PowerSource (phone brand), mobile phone that can make use of both Sprint-Nextel cellular networks
- PowerSource (musical group), a Christian music group of the 1980s
- PowerSource, a weekly print section, and a companion website of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, highlighting the Pittsburgh region’s diverse energy industry
Power source may also refer to:
- A source of primary energy, an energy form found in nature that has not been subjected to any conversion or transformation process
- Energy carrier, or secondary energy, a substance or phenomenon that contains energy that can be later converted to other forms such as mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes
- See Energy development for an overview of primary and secondary energy or power sources
- Electric power source
- AC power plugs and sockets, devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternating current (AC) power supply in a building
- Electric generator, a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit
- Engine, a machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion
- Fuel, a material that stores potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used for work
- Mains electricity or household power, the general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply
- Power station, an industrial facility for the generation of electric power
- Power supply, an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load