Coal and fuel oil are still the most common fuels for powerplants and factories!!! I have read the amount of fossil fuels needed to manufacture ethanol outweighs the benefits.I am a huge believer in the use of alternative fuels and though politically unpopular believe in the increased use of nuclear power plants for our energy [...]
Serious discussion here. How feasible is the idea of communities, towns, even whole cities being powered by solar energy? At the most, how about these communities being fractionally powered by solar energy; 40% Solar/ 60% Fossil fuels? We’re not getting all George Jetson, here. We have practical means by which to make something like this [...]
You’ve heard about hybrid cars from everywhere, including the news and the papers. People talk about them in chat rooms and the internet has information on the too. You know that hybrids have many features that conventional cars just can’t match up to. One of those features is the fact that hybrid cars get great [...]
Fuels are the energy-boosters for vehicles. Without it no automobile can run on the road. But these fuels have always been a major factor in pollution problem. That is why alternative fuels or eco-friendly fuels have been discovered.Biodiesel is one of them. It is equivalent to diesel, which is derived from biological sources. It is [...]
Ever curious how exactly hybrid cars became the economic revelation they are today? Well, it definitely didn’t start in the 1990s, that’s for sure. In fact, alternative-fuel vehicles and transportation were being developed as far back as 1665, which Flemish inventors used to experiment with steam-power in order to power unmanned cars, and, moving forward [...]
Solar energy is energy that is harnesses from the Sun. The technologies harness the sun’s incredible energy for practical ends. Solar power plants use a variety of methods to collect sunlight and convert this energy into electricity.While the use of solar energy has been used for millennia, it’s potential has only been recognized within the [...]
Buying a new car is big and expensive decision for most people, and with the ever rising oil price it is becoming a more and more expensive affair to own your own car too. With an oil price that works in a way so that a rain in north America raises the price people in [...]
ticle that follows, we will explain in how a residential solar (PV) cell converts photons of sunlight into household electrical currents. This process is called the photoelectric effect. We will also explain the physical characteristics of how silicon moves electrons through various states to produce household solar electric power.Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in [...]
In order to calculate how much corn you would have to grow to produce enough ethanol to fuel a trip across the country, there are a couple of basic factors we have to consider: Let’s assume that you drive a Toyota Camry, the best-selling car in America in 2000. We know that the Toyota Camry [...]
Call it an electric vehicle (EV) or call it a battery electric vehicle (BEV), but a rose by any other name would still smell sweet if it utilized green technology. Electric cars flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but limitations like low top speeds helped seal their fate. Advances in manufacturing processes of [...]