Biofuels have been around as long as cars have.

A biofuel is a fuel that contains energy from geologically recent carbon fixation. These fuels are produced from living organisms.

Generating Electricity from Wing Waves.

Wind turbines, like windmills, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy. At 100 feet (30 meters) or more aboveground, they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind.

Producing electricity from solar energy.

Solar energy is a free, inexhaustible resource, yet harnessing it is a relatively new idea. The ability to use solar power for heat was the first discovery.

Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades.

A blade acts much like an airplane wing. When the wind blows, a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind side of the blade.

Solar energy may have had great potential

Solar technology advanced to roughly its present design in 1908 when William J. Bailey of the Carnegie Steel Company invented a collector with an insulated box and copper coils.

We have been harnessing the wind's energy for hundreds of years.

For utility-scale sources of wind energy, a large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to form awind plant.

Biofuels are produced from living organisms.

In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials.

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth.

Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings.

A geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building.

In the future, civilization will be forced to research and develop alternative energy sources.

Possession of surplus energy is, of course, a requisite for any kind of civilization, for if man possesses merely the energy of his own muscles, he must expend all his strength - mental and physical - to obtain the bare necessities of life.

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Monday, March 17, 2014

Benefits Of Solar

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Benefits Of Solar

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Our environment needs us now more than ever. The ozone is being depleted by toxic fumes created by our daily use of energy, taken from fossil fuels that are rapidly depleting as well. Every day that limited supply of energy becomes less and less and the cost to our environment has taken a toll. Polluted skies, smog, filthy water, and tainted oceans are becoming an increasing threat to our quality of life and in the future it will affect our children. We have a burden to the planet that we call home.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE


We have a chance to make a difference. It may seem that the damage has become too significant or that one home or business cannot possibly make a difference, but there is a growing trend by people everywhere to take ownership of this planet and to start treating it a little bit better. As more people begin to find sustainable sources of energy -of living- the weight and burden of our existence on our planet lessens and we are able to provide a prosperous environment for year to come.

THE GREEN REVOLUTION


You have a chance to lead the revolution that is charging to take care of this Earth that allows us the plentiful existence we so enjoy. Many people have shown an interest in solar power, but few know how much solar energy can really help ourselves in terms of easing financial burdens over the long term, how every individual who invests in solar energy is helping to maintain a cleaner, purer environment, and how over the long term and with the efforts of a growing community of Earth-friendly individuals that solar power can help all of humanity to not only sustain itself beyond the current dwindling resources, but to give us the opportunity to flourish in the future while taking care of the world we live in.

Right now, momentum is building for individuals to be more mindful of the impact of our lives on the long term quality of life that is available on our planet. Our daily existence is powered by Earth's once-abundant resources. One day, those resources that we take for granted may not be available. Now is the time, to do your part towards creating a future that is unconcerned with running out of resources, because with every individual, we do have the power to make a difference.

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