May 28, 2010 / energy
Around the globe, many nations have already set bio-fuel targets: in the U.S., the Energy Security and Independence Act requires that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels be blended into gasoline by
April 21, 2010 / energy
Solar panel installation was once thought a high-tech home improvement that was more futuristic than realistic. The savings you could make on your utilities bills probably wouldn’t have been enough
April 18, 2010 / energy
Decades of tree and biomass research jointly conducted by Florida Statue University and Shell Energy have resulted in the planting of the largest single “Energy Crop Plantation” in the entire Unit
April 9, 2010 / energy
Alternative energy sources have many uses in society today. Many of them are also referred to as “green energy,” signifying environmentally friendly energy sources. Today, there has been a trend t
March 25, 2010 / energy
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) was conceived of by the French engineer Jacques D'Arsonval in 1881. However, at the time of this writing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is home to the o
March 22, 2010 / energy
Biomass is organic material made from plants and animals. Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb the sun’s energy in a process called photosynthesis. The chemical energy in plant
March 21, 2010 / energy
It has been documented that the Chinese were using coal as early as 1000 BC to bake porcelain. The ancient Greeks also wrote about it in their history. In the Western countries, many of the forests ha
March 21, 2010 / energy
Wind is one very usable energy resource that can be traced back thousands of years. the first mechanical device that was built to use the wind as a source of power was a sailboat. Larger ships and sai
Record high prices at American gas pumps and continued trouble-brewing in the Middle East, Nigeria, and other areas of importance to the oil-driven economy have made it clear to Americans that we are
We should be doing everything possible to develop geothermal energy technologies. This is a largely untapped area of tremendous alternative energy potential, as it simply taps the energy being natural
February 18, 2010 / energy
There is a lot of energy that we can harness if we only seek to research and develop the technologies needed to do so. We can get away from the fossil fuels and the old electrical grids by turning to
February 18, 2010 / energy
Many researchers believe that harnessing the power of the atom in fission reactions is the most significant alternative energy resource that we have, for the fact of the immense power that it can gene
February 18, 2010 / energy
Photovoltaic cells—those black squares an array of which comprises a solar panel -are getting more efficient, and gradually less expensive, all the time, thanks to ever-better designs which all them
February 13, 2010 / energy, global warming
A leading scientist has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age. While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet's biggest danger, reno
