Alternative Fuels This day in age‚ one of the world’s main concerns is energy. Currently‚ we rely on petroleum to run our cars‚ and household central heat‚ and electricity in our homes. Petroleum is not only limited‚ but it is also dirtying up the world’s air‚ and depleting the ozone layer as it is burned. Alternative fuels are one of the worlds most talked about issues‚ and many solutions have been brought forth‚ yet none of them have been sophisticatedly acted upon. Through the list of pros
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are solar power and biofuels. Firstly‚ solar energy has been widely used to generate heat and electricity recently. Moreover‚ it will show the benefits and also point out some drawbacks of solar energy. After that‚ the discussion will describe the second form of widespread renewable energy in the transport sector which is biofuels. Finally‚ it will reveal advantages and a disadvantage of this energy. This essay argues that renewable energies‚ which are solar power and biofuels have been extensively
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food shortage is becoming increasingly severe in this day and age. There are several reasons which led to the universal food shortage and they are interconnected to each other. Increasing world population‚ extreme weather and the wide spread use of biofuels are the main causes of worldwide shortage of food. These factors lead to food price rises rapidly. This essay will firstly discuss three major factors which have caused the world food crisis. Then it will examine how these factors affect the food
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Why Did Global Food Prices Rise? 1. Farmers in the United States and in Europe benefit from government policies to promote the production of ethanol because they receive government subsidies to produce crops that can be turned into biofuels and it gives the farmers an incentive to plant crops such as corn and soybeans. However‚ this policy harms foreign producers of these foreign crops. Since U.S. and European farmers have subsidies‚ they have lower costs than the foreign farmers and the foreign
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promises a reduction in smog of between 60 & 90% [3] and a reduction of carbon emissions of between 30 & 40% [3]. However‚ certain modifications need to be made on the cars and their tanks in order to use the fuel [4]. Ethanol Ethanol is a biofuel used to run engines that originally used petrol. There are a few modifications done to the vehicle so that it can run efficiently on Ethanol. A vehicle with these modifications is classified as an FFV or a Flexible Fuel Vehicle [5]. Brazil is one
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A PEST(LE) analysis of: By: Erik Bruun-Olsen & Simen Stockinger Statoil ASA is a Norwegian Renewable Energy‚ Oil and Gas company‚ where the government of Norway is the main shareholder with 67 % of the shares. Statoil was established as a wholly state-owned company on 14th of July in 1972‚ and it was ranked as the 13th biggest Oil and Gas Company in the world by Fortune Magazine. Statoil is today a considerable international company‚ with 22.000 employees in 36 countries all over the
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attractive source of energy because they are easily accessible and require very little to collect them and can be used to operate or provided constant power and heat for several applications. Some of the alternatives to fossil fuels are solar energy and biofuels are just a few. Solar energy through the use of solar panels converts energy from the sun into electricity. Some of the advantages of solar energy are they can do anything fossil fuel energy can do‚ with far less pollution involved and lower operating
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fuel‚ which is Jet A1 by burning this fuel there are impact on the global warming the researcher investigate what is the problem with fossil fuel (Jet A1). As solve the fuel problem there are several alternatives have tested‚ that some of them are biofuel‚ Liquid Hydrogen‚ Fracking for Natural Gas and scher-Tropsch (F-T) fuels from fossil feedstocks. However to fund out the alternative fuel is sustainable .firstly defined term sustainability. There are numerous definitions for the word sustainable
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110 Biofuels: Potential and Challenges Chapter - 6 IN VITRO REGENERATION OF JATROPHA CURCAS Pankaj Bhargava‚ S.K. Tiwari‚ Amit Pandey‚ M.P. Goswami and Shweta Mishra Forest Genetics‚ Plant Propagation and Biotechnology Division‚ State Forest Research Institute‚ Polipathar‚ Jabalpur E-mail- drsktiwari@rediffmail.com ABSTRACT Biofuels are renewable and environmentally safe and refers to a nonpetroleum based fuel obtained from the transesterification of vegetable oils or animal fats.
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World War III‚ Global Warming “People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that‚ once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives‚ it will be too late to prevent much larger‚ potentially catastrophic changes‚” Elizabeth Kolbert. For decades our world has been changing slowly‚ and we have felt the wrath of global warming. Recent hurricanes such as Ike‚ Wilma‚ Katrina‚ Rita‚ and now Sandy have caused many casualties‚ billions of dollars in
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