4). Likewise, in the same article, Kay Martin of the Ventura County, California public works agency is quoted as saying, "From a macroeconomics or macro-environmental perspective, it just makes sense." The need to build an infrastructure for product Continue Reading...
An acre of corn will yield roughly 5,500 dry pounds of stover, enough to produce about 180 gallons of ethanol" (Baker & Zanier 2006). But once again, such intensive farming methods could result in depletion of the soil and ultimately hamper the Continue Reading...
In addition, large quantities of natural gas are required to produce fertilizers which are needed for growing corn. It is estimated that an average of 135 pounds of nitrogen (a potent-greenhouse-gas) per acre is used in growing corn in most U.S. far Continue Reading...
This growth has attracted the attention of major industry leaders such as General Electric and Cascade Investment LLC, which has invested $84 million into Pacific Ethanol. Despite the favorable outlook and the generally accepted need for renewable Continue Reading...
The downside to E15 is that it can only be used by some vehicles manufactured after 2007 (AFDC Ethanol, 2009) and that it's not as widely available as standard gasoline. E15 fuel is considered to be an alternative fuel source. Ethanol is a renewabl Continue Reading...
In the drive to discover new fuels and cheaper alternatives to driving the fact of the matter is that roads will still have to be maintained, and if the consumer is purchasing less fuel by driving fuel efficient cars, then other taxes will have to Continue Reading...
Such biodegradable batteries have the ability to last 3 to 4 times longer than the lithium ion batteries in use today. It is not just the average consumer who is interested in these products but the military is also extremely interested in using suc Continue Reading...
Fossil Fuels & Their Impact on the Environment Impact of Fossil Fuels on Environment Fossil fuels are formed by anaerobic decomposition of organisms over a period of millions of years. When burnt, they produce significant amounts of energy per Continue Reading...
Reasoning for Alternative Fuels All other things being equal, the energy source with the lowest cost will always be pursued after in the cargo transportation world. The supremacy of petroleum-derived from fuels is an outcome of the comparative ease Continue Reading...
Alternative Fuel cars The best way that we can approach this complex subject is by differentiating the different types of fuels that the cars use since each fuel requires a different type of car and each fuel, accordingly, has its particular advant Continue Reading...
According to these airlines, the public can help by contacting their Congress people. According to the airlines in question, there are in fact (or have been) regulations in place in order to discourage the phenomenon of uncontrolled speculation and Continue Reading...
" All of this experimentation eventually led to new alternative fuel technologies which in today's world is one of the fastest growing commercial industries, due to the ever-rising need for coal and oil and the continuing rise in oil prices which are Continue Reading...
Conclusions Whether it is solar power, used vegetable oil, turds, wood, or hydrogen research and experimentation is the way forward. These cheap resources have already been proven effective in various ways and manners. The need of the day is to de Continue Reading...
VI. Ethanol: Ethanol may be made from straw, agricultural waste, corn or sugar by using enzymes (Ljunggren, 2005). CONCLUSION "Free energy" fuels have many benefits, one of them being that they do not deplete the earth's fossil fuel, another is th Continue Reading...
Synthetic Fuels are liquid or gaseous fuels that are used as an excellent alternative to gasoline and natural gas. They are derived from a variety of sources like coal, tar, biomass etc. As the demand for fuel is increasing there is more extraction f Continue Reading...
By studying this history, one can quickly understand fossil fuels are in such short supply. Although they have been around for millions of years, they have been in use for thousands. Fossil Fuels' Uses While it is common knowledge that fossil fuel Continue Reading...
Ending The Nation's Dependence on Fossil Fuels There are many options available for reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels. From the use of biofuel subsidies to foster research & development (R&D) of new fuel forms and technologi Continue Reading...
This helps to establish the case that a gap exists between that which science accepts about biofuels and that which politicians present on the subject. This is complimented by Thornton's (2006) concise detraction of ethanol, this article serves as Continue Reading...
For an industry that is fast becoming a verifiable and sustainable model of energy development, the labor that supplies the demand will likely get its fair share of attention (Goldemberg, 2007). On the marketing end of the industry, there is the au Continue Reading...
These continued high fossil fuel prices has made development and production of alternative fuels, like biofuels, a cost-effective alternative. Another economic factor that has resulted in biofuel being a popular choice of alternative fuels, is the Continue Reading...
I do that every day. But I've never done that with a car. I buy what I need to look successful. Besides, how would I ever calculate a payback when I have no idea what gasoline will cost in the future?" A few said with apparent certainty, "one year" Continue Reading...
A similar method, called gas-to-liquids (GTL), which also uses the FT process, is receiving a lot of attention these days. In this method, natural gas is used as the feedstock. Waste or natural gas that cannot be marketed is partially oxidized into Continue Reading...
Concerns about the availability of fuel also slows adoption. In a simulation representing California, entrepreneurs opened alterative fuel stations in urban areas but not in less-populated rural areas where demand is initially lower. According to Sc Continue Reading...
Lotus Rental Car Company and Alternative Fuel Vehicles Approximately three weeks ago California won a major victory in the fight to lessen greenhouse-gas emissions when voters defeated Proposition 23 -- an effort to block the landmark AB 32 Emission Continue Reading...
Because of the wide variety of feedstocks ethanol offers great opportunity for economic growth and can help generate jobs outside traditional system. There are many benefits of using ethanol as an alternative fuel. Most importantly the manageabilit Continue Reading...
Business Economics - GM545 Academic Term: May 2012 Session Email ID: Factors affecting the price of Gasoline: It is an established fact that market forces of demand and supply are responsible for fluctuation in prices of commodities. Where demand Continue Reading...
Environmental Issues Faced in 21st Century Aviation Reducing Communication and Coordination Tools and Metrics Technology, Operations and Policy Demand Aviation and the Environment Effects on the health Local Air Quality Climate Change Total Continue Reading...
Geology Water is an important resource of earth and an inevitable requirement of life. There is no life without water; regardless it is human life, animal life or plant life. Water is mandatory for all kinds of life and it is no exaggeration to ment Continue Reading...
economic and quantitative analysis topics, roughly six in total. Those topics, in order, are focus on a non-core variable (and model) for the country of Nigeria, analysis of the World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) model, comments on regres Continue Reading...
2010 World Cup The Environmental Impact of the 2010 World Cup In 2009, long before the FIFA World Cup in South Africa was scheduled to begin, the South African chief director of planning and coordination for the Department of Environmental Affairs Continue Reading...
The economy may be strong in some areas but weak in others as the fuel industry seeks to deprive the culture of traditional food bearing crops, in exchange for fuel bearing ones, and decreases the biodiversity of the nation in the process. "... with Continue Reading...
This presents challenges because neither high-pressure compressed hydrogen gas nor cryogenic liquefied hydrogen can easily be handled at home." (Panasonic, p. 1) This underscores the reality noted by this proposal and cast to further examination in Continue Reading...
Why the huge disparity in viewpoints when the science has been empirically established for twenty years or more? Journalist Bryan Walsh references sociologists from Michigan State and Oklahoma State Universities (Riley Dunlap and Aaron McCright, res Continue Reading...
" The wildlife result of raising the usual row crops such as corn is well-known. The greatest impact of enhanced corn ethanol would be that much more land would be converted to agricultural use as well as the additional erosion and fertilizer applica Continue Reading...
Biofuel The search for alternative energy has been a major issue over past 30 years. In recent months there has been an increased amount of urgency concerning reliance upon fossil fuels. The purpose of this discussion is to examine biofuel as a sour Continue Reading...
Conclusion As all these studies show, ethanol is not exactly the environmental darling that many seem to think it is. It is actually helping to raise food prices, it is adding to world hunger, and producing it may be actually adding to global poll Continue Reading...
In developing countries, consumers are more affected for two reasons. One is that consumers are more likely to buy raw ingredients. Without manufacturing entities to absorb some of the commodity price increases, consumers are left to absorb almost Continue Reading...
The feedstocks that are considered include going back on coal Gasification, and coal liquefaction, stranded natural gas and oil which was heavy and available from the 'oil shale' or 'tar sands', and biomass. Because of its eco friendly nature and su Continue Reading...
Many of its advocates have proposed corn ethanol as a fuel source capable of running an automobile engine or a warehouse of machinery. Indeed, according to Holt-Gimenex, "biofuel champions assure us that because fuel crops are renewable, they are e Continue Reading...
Biofuel from corn is, at presently, relatively inefficient. Surveys indicate that at best biofuel generates 1.3 times the energy it costs to product (Jaffe, 2007); several studies indicate it generates less than what it costs to produce (Wald, 2007) Continue Reading...
