Brian Turner Turner 1 Professor Dimon English 091 November 5‚ 2006 "Oil Dependency: Increase Research Funds" America’s dependency on foreign oil is slowly crippling the average citizen’s hard-earned income with outrageous fluctuation in gas prices. The American government seriously needs to step it in gear and start taking action on possible supplemental energy sources to replace foreign
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whole concept of “Going Green”‚ the fact that there is a limited amount of the earths’ oil left and that landfills are emitting tons of greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere. No one knew about clean alternatives to petroleum such as palm oil and Biodiesel‚ which is produced from waste cooking oils instead of using gas or diesel or that just having a compost garden in your backyard could reduce the world’s garbage even just a fraction which is helping. This paper will go over ways to lower the consumption
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systems. 4 It can also be used as fuel for transportation such as specially designed cars with engines that run on biogas. 1 Biodiesel is an alternative fuel‚ similar to regular diesel‚ which can be used in vehicles- there is a benefit of using biodiesel in vehicles and that is you don’t need to alter the vehicle very much for it to be able to run on biodiesel. 2 Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils or animal fat 1 Ethanol can be burnt as fuel. It’s a cleaner fuel than petrol or diesel‚ producing
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Electric Cars Are Going To Be the Future Nearly every household in America owns a gas powered vehicle‚ which pollutes our environment daily. Our society needs to consider furthering its knowledge and use of electric cars. Pollution of our environment must come to a halt in every situation possible in order to save the future of our atmosphere. I believe that the switch from gas-powered cars to electric cars is a very necessary and reasonable approach to save the environment. Several different
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MICROECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT Demand & Supply of Lauric Oil TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 What is lauric oil? And what are its applications? Page 3 2. Factors affecting demand 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Population and food demand Crude oil and biodiesel Prices of palm and other vegetable oil Important events of Year 2011 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 3. Factors affecting supply 3.1 3.2 3.3 Climate Incremental supply forecast for 2011 – 2012 New policy highlights Page 8 Page 8 Page 10 4.
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Will Biofuels solve global warming? Global warming is caused by greenhouse gasses; these trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere that should escape from the earth. Global warming is causing sea levels to rise and ice caps to melt this could lead to coastal cities flooding‚ droughts in area’s which usually get rain and less crops to list only a few affects. The cause of global warming is “greenhouse gasses” these gasses include nitrous oxide carbon dioxide and water vapour. Cars produce CO2‚ H20 and
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Vehicle market enabling them to manufacture cars like the Brazilian Fiat 147 [7]‚ the first modern automobile that could run on pure-unblended ethanol followed by Volkswagens‚ Chevrolets‚ Toyotas and Nissans just to name a few [6]. Biodiesel Like ethanol‚ biodiesel is a renewable alternative fuel for cars. This is because it is made from
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natural resources are being used in excess and supply is starting running short. A. Alternative options pro’s and con’s. 1. Biodiesel can be mixed with any level of standard diesel fuel but the most common is B20 or 20% biodiesel and 80% standard diesel fuel (Hess‚ 2003). 2. Unlike most other alternative energy sources almost all newer diesel engines can run on biodiesel with little or no engine modifications (Hess‚ 2003). 3. Nearly all gasoline from the gas stations has some ethanol mixed in
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this ethanol we can obtain energy that we can then use as a fuel. Biofuels have had a great impact in the world already. In the year 2011 the Ethanol consumption was over 25 billion of gallons‚ however‚ getting society to use Biodiesel hasn’t been very successful. Biodiesel is a less environmental damaging substitute for petroleum diesel fuel. It is made out of vegetable oil‚ it doesn’t matter what condition the vegetable oil is in‚ it could have already been used for cooking‚ etc. This vegetable
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Sheethal Mathew Professor Moton English 1 A 7 May 2012 Gasoline Impact on Environment The quote “while the United States consumes nearly 25 percent of the world’s petroleum‚ as a country it maintains only 2 percent of the world’s petroleum reserves” itself should describes this country’s over consumption of petroleum (energy.ca.gov). Gasoline is refined crude oil which is formed inside the earth from fossils that died thousands of years back. There is only so little of the material left that
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