Clean Sources Of Energy To Avoid Contributing To Global Warming
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Yes eventually fossil fuels should be reserved for the rich and famous, music and movie stars. The rest of us should settle down to changing our light bulbs sorting our trash, winding up our rubberband cars and paying even bigger energy costs and taxes for GW.
What are your activities, endeavors and dedications in mandating the use of renewable clean sources of Energy?
The foregoing is drafted to enhance awareness in the promotion and mandate to all the people in the world to use renewable and clean sources of Energy.
This is likewise meant to prohibit the utilization of Fossil sources of Energy as the same is proven harmful to our Environment.
You are not quite right. We should not have cap and trade at all. The only thing it will do is make a few people who sell carbon offset credits very rich while for the rest of us the cost of living goes up and our standard of living goes down. When did it become the government’s place to artificially raise prices on energy. Our quality of life has been possible because of cheap energy but the government control freaks don’t seem to care. Do your duty to help all Americans and contact your senators to encourage them to vote against cap and trade. Also contact your congressman and tell him how you feel about the way he voted on this issue. Then, beginning with the primaries next year let’s vote every incumbent out of office. A new inexperienced congress and senate couldn’t screw things up any worse than the morons who are there now.
I want information about “Green and Clean energy sources” !?! Help.?
I want to present a seminar regarding “Art of Science : Green and Clean Energy Sources” related with Electrical Engineering. If u know some websites where I would get information regarding this, plz post the link. Any .ppt or .doc or .pdf will also be appreciated.
Thank you.
Algae as rightly pointed out by many contains near about 30% oil and it can be harvested. The rest of the material can be recycled to the ground as fertilizer for the plant. Algae actually converts sunlight energy to chemical energy with the help of carbon dioxide. Both are available plentiful. Only problem is the area required for the growth. This is being addressed by technology. There was an article on this some times ago. Algae is being grown on land in an smaller area with vertical stands. The verticals stands are irrigated with water and the algae they report grows well. The harvest is reported to be economical as well. The consumption of water is still a concern but with drip irrigation they say it can be overcome. Probably genetic modification can help in this area. With all these developments I am pretty sure that algae has a bright future and it is good for the human race.
Hydro has impacts downstream as well as upstream, so it is not a perfect solution, and is competing with enviromental groups for acceptability.
Photovoltaics use numerous metallic materials that are hazardous if mishandled, Cadmium and Nickle are major components, in some cases Selenium, .and then the subtrate that they are put on to can have their own hazardous or non-hazardous materials as well. And they can create a micro climiate where they are used. Sharp, Toshiba, Power Film, Honda and a number others make PV panels.
Solar steam plants create micro climates beneath the reflectors. There may be some links for a global construction contractor.
Wind has a lot of impact visually, audibly and in their construction as well. Small wind manufacturers such as Airex, Pac Wind, Southwest Windpower, Winco, Wincharger, and Aermotor are some of them. Big wind, you have Vestas, and a few others.
Nothing is truly “no-impact,” the “savings” these technologies create is not without costs in human and environmental terms, but they do reduce the use of other fuel sources for energy production. Ultimately they can produce more energy than they consumed in their life cycle and can ultimately be recycled as well.
As for sources of information, there are multitudes. One thing you can do is contact the manufacturers of the various products, There are many, and you would be expected to be able to present a list of them to attendees and sponsors as well. Other sources as well are the American Wind Energy Association, Department of Energy, Sandia, There are several European and Canadian agencies with good publications as well and links to manufacturers and organizations that collaborated with them on research.
There are many new technologies in end use and production as well. Cree manufactures LED lighting modules used by other manufacturers as well, Lumex is another. There are numerous power generation dynamos/generators, motors, motion control and power supply manufacturers utilizing new technologies from Texas Instruments, Fairchild, ON semiconductors, Zetex, MagnaTek, etc, To get list of some of these manufacturers take a look at the “Line Card” of manufacturers that Digikey carries. http://www.digikey.com
There are ceramics finding myriads of uses, Owens Corning is one of the largest. They also make foam and fiberglass insulation. Reflectix makes radaint barrier products, there are others as well. If you narrow your focus, you can find many manufacturers names and websites by simply walking through a large home center and seeing the materials up close, many have the corporate website information on the product itself even.
At what point is something NOT green? Once you decide that, it helps narrow the feild because many green technologies actually have very hazardous compounds or characteristics in and of themselves. Eurethane foams for example are often compared to solid gasoline due to their flamability, yet are among the best and most versatile insulation products. Eurethane uses an IsoCyanate compound in it’s catalyst typically. When burned it releases Cyanide gas and other compounds. There are some Soy based foams out there with similar potential and less toxicity.
Many of these items are aspects of energy production as well.
One site with a good bibliography and numerous links is http://www.builditsolar.com
There is also ethanol and soy diesel, hydrogen, Compressed natural or manufactured gas, and electric for motor vehicles. Ethanol has a high water consumption rate per gallon with most technologies. ADM and Genral Motors and some cooperatives are the big players in Ethanol, and to some extent Soy fuel technologies. There are the organization for Soy Producers.
Many of these will yield corporate or organization links when done as a web search.
What is the future of algae as a source of clean energy?
Where do you think we will be in regards to the development of tapping algae as an energy source in the next 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?
CLEAN ENERGY SOURCES?
d. What are some promising new sources of “clean” or “green” energy?
e. Explain how 2 of these energy sources could be used to help the world meet its energy?
Thank you!
Yet another homework question…
d. nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, tidal, wave, hydrogen. Anything that does not involve burning carbon-based fuels such as coal, oil, gas, and wood can be considered clean and green.
e. I’m not doing your homework for you, but if you put your thinking cap on it should be obvious.
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Shouldn’t we wait to have enough alternative clean sources of energy before placing Cap N Trade?
And shouldn’t the government provide guidelines as to how Businesses can also save on energy without cutting back on production, losing profit or cutting losses?
Because otherwise wouldn’t Cap N Trade just become extra tax burden on Businesses? How do they figure it will cut back on carbon emissions?