Clean Fuels
Oil Shortage Facts
The New York Times ran a story yesterday, “Imagining Life without Oil” provoking fears about an energy crisis while leaving out the fact that oil shortageswould only affect modes of transportation, all other energy demands can be met with natural gas supplies, nuclear power and renewables. As for transportation, improving mileage efficiencies, while also relying [...]
Renewable Energy Options
BP’s oil spill in the Gulf may make you wonder about renewable energy options. How can clean energy become a viable option for consumers? One organization has taken the bull by the horns and developed the Renewable Energy Atlas, a user friendly web based application that locates renewable energy sources [...]
Trash to Gas to Electricity
Forget about EPA and government regulations. It just makes good business sense to implement innovative ways to improve waste management. Waste Management Inc. is taking the lead on this effort by converting landfill methane gas into usable natural gas to power utility electricity plants across the nation. Waste Management is producing domestic [...]
Nuclear Power Will Be A Great Source of Green Energy
Greenpeace may be against nuclear energy and Homer Simpson may be asleep on the job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant but splitting atoms creates significant amounts of energy while producing zero greenhouse gas emissions. For that reason, nuclear energy plays a significant role in disarming global warming threats and climate change. Nuclear [...]
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
Interested in driving a car that doesn’t produce any harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are the cleanest solution to global warming with zero emissions. The only substance produced while driving is water which is so clean you can water your plants with it and watch them grow. Hydrogen fuel [...]
Algae is the Answer to Global Warming
Yesterday I wrote about how seaweed (marine algae) can be used as a biofuel. The remarkable thing about seaweed is that it takes up a lot of carbon dioxide as it grows. Now, check out Ternion Bio Industries; a company that reuses harmful carbon dioxide emissions to grow algae and convert it to [...]
Seaweed is the new Biofuel
Seaweed is an algae and algaes offer promise as biofuel because algae pulls a lot of carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere when if grows and algae does not produce a lot of CO2 when combusted as a fuel. Biofuels are interesting alternative energy source for cars because they do not require significant [...]
Will Electric Cars stop Global Warming?
Nissan is about to introduce the “Leaf” an electric car that will not produce any greenhouse gases from its tailpipe. It can go up to 90 mph and “performs like a V6” but it will not use gas; you will charge it at soon to be developed charging station infrastructure where you plug the [...]
What is biogas and how can it decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?
When bacteria– not oxygen (combustion) — breaks down organic matter biogas is produced. Biogas is methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Municipal landfills, industrial waste lagoons and other structures currently produce biogas. Dairy and hog farms are notorious for it.
There is a way to harness this gas and use it [...]
What does hydrogen fuel technology have to do with global warming?
Hydrogen fuel technology produces energy from water (H2O) The technology introduces an electric current in water to separate hydrogen from oxygen. It is expensive to do but once the hydrogen is derived from water, or even biomass, it can power a fuel cell which is another word for a battery; this type [...]