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  • Alternative Fuel Cars And Alternative Fuels Tips
    By: rham | - In the simplest form, an alternative fuel is one that is not produced by using crude oil. They are simply fuels that replace conventional gasoline as a means of powering vehicles. Alternative fuels have desirable energy efficiency and pollution reduction features. The 1990 Clean Air Act encourages development and sale of alternative fuels. Basically, alternative fuels include methane, propane, ethanol, and compressed gas among others. The use of alterative fuels informed people that they shoul ...
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  • Find Out Where You Can Buy Biodiesel
    By: Mike Hirn | - Biodiesel has been recommended by those people which are sincerely supporting the preservation of the environment. The environment is shared by the entire population. The key factor in preserving the Earth is the ability to put petty power trip differences aside and work together. There is no room for personal conflicts, in order to restore and preserve the Earth for the future existence. Unfortunely, where to buy biodiesel is extremely limited right now.

    Just because the recipe i ...
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  • Fuelling The Future With Alternative Energy
    By: Thanate Tan | - The current dominant conventional fuels that are used include fossil fuels, petroleum, uranium, coal and propane. There has been growing concern about these conventional fuels, thus leading to the increasing demand for, and interest in alternative fuels.

    People in general are becoming acutely aware of the degradation of the earth and that they have to make drastic changes in order to keep our world from being destroyed. The effects of conventional fuels such as fossils fuels are ...
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  • Alternative Energy: Consultants For Alternative Energy
    By: Sunny Tan | - Consultants on alternative energies have predicted that shifting from an economy reigned by petroleum fuels to an economy based on alternative fuels will not be that easy. Even so, the amounts of novel technologies that are constantly changing have had a definite impact so far on how we perceive economy to be. For instance, take the example of Germany who gets ten percent of the total amount of energy from wind turbines, solar arrays and other innovative technologies that other states might envy ...
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  • Hybrid Cars - Which Is The Best ?
    By: Bercle George | - Which is the best hybrid car ever made so far? Who can point to a hybrid vehicle and say this is the best hybrid car? Well, if you really want to make a difference, let me tell you this is something very difficult to do. Just think about the competition in the car industry. Each and every car maker has one important goal in their range of activity, namely to create better green vehicles, and hopefully the best hybrid car.

    Several factors indicate the candidates for the title of " ...
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  • Hybrid Cars - Toyota Motor Corporation
    By: Bercle George | - Toyota hybrid cars were the first to hit the market. After decades of quality gas-fueled vehicle manufacturing, Toyota Motor Corp. redirected its creative efforts in an environment friendly direction. The first model from the Toyota hybrid cars was Prius that made a true revolution in the world of automakers. The design of the Toyota hybrid cars is considered superior to all the other similar models available on the market: the engine, the mph rate it gets within a few seconds and all the road c ...
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  • Biofuels Creates Investment Opportunities In Alternative Energy
    By: Sara Nunnally | - Barack Obamas ambitious American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will invest $150 billion in alternative energy over the next 10 years. But the biofuels market could double in three years. If youre thinking ethanol, think again

    Jaws hit the floor CEOs of major oil companies stand, shaking their heads, praying the ambitious goals of our new president are not met.

    It could mean their jobs.

    Exxon Mobils (XOM:NYSE) CEO ...
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  • The 9 Types Of Alternative Fuels - Moving Away From Oil
    By: Darryl Power | - The continuing problem in oil price hike is troubling the world today. More people have become smarter car owners have looked into the possibility of using other types of alternative fuels.

    Naming the types of alternative fuels are Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Liquefied Natural Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, Biodesel, Ethanol, Methanol, Electricity, Pure Plant Oils, and Hydrogen.

    1. A Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG is composed of hydrocarbons and propane; that is why it i ...
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  • Global Warming And Americas Addiction To Oil
    By: Todd Ash | - Global warming is caused by the build up of co2 in the earths atmosphere. This build up causes the heat from the sun to be retained inside of our atmosphere thus increase the global temerature. 70 million tons of co2 are being released into the atmosphere daily.At this rate you will see that in the next 50 years that global warming will have caused the polar caps to melt causing an the ocean levels to rise by 20ft.

    An example: If all of the ice were to melt in Greenland, ocean le ...
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  • The Hybrid Cars Great Advantages
    By: suegold | - The cost of fuel and the damage it brings to our environment has become very rampant, and because of that, hybrid cars are presently considered as very beneficial to the preservation of the environment. The reason behind this is that hybrid cars do not depend mainly on fuel for it to have power, but it also makes use of electricity that results to a smaller amount of fuel consumption and less emitted air pollution.



    A hybrid car combines an electric motor and gasoline e ...
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  • Five Major Types Of Alternative Fuels To Save Money And The Enviroment
    By: Richard Lee | - Many different types of alternative fuels are being developed currently and this is a very exciting innovation in the automobile industry. The use of alternative fuels are the wave of the future as researchers try to develop cleaner burning fuels that will not damage the environment and also provide great advantages to the vehicle owner. Several alternative fuels have been developed with great promise.

    The most well known of all the alternative fuels is ethanol. Ethanol is often r ...
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  • Tesoro Fuel Refiner Sues To Block Ethanol Increase In California
    By: MattHartwig | - More often than not, the phrase frivolous lawsuit is somewhat redundant. Such is the case with San Antonio-based fuel refiner Tesoro, which has filed a lawsuit in California to block a regulation that would boost ethanol consumption in the state by 2010.

    The company, which operates refineries in Los Angeles and the city of Martinez, says the new fuel specifications could conflict with the state's push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and could have ramifications for the ...
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  • Improvements In Ethanol
    By: MattHartwig | - America's Ethanol Producers Cut Energy Consumption

    Efficiency Gains Add to Ethanol's Green Footprint

    More efficiently using our natural resources is at the core of this nation's efforts to secure a more sustainable energy future. America's ethanol producers are at the forefront of that effort, developing the technologies and processes that are constantly improving the already green footprint of this domestic renewable energy industry.

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  • Poet Continues To Open Ethanol Production Plants
    By: MattHartwig | - Apparently POET is too busy building and opening ethanol plants to read the headlines and know that the financial world as we know it is coming to an end.

    The world's biggest ethanol producer just keeps getting bigger, opening a new plant today in Fostoria, Ohio and announcing another plant opening in the same state at the end of October.

    In fact, POET may be looking to get even bigger through acquisitions, according to this story from the Ottawa Citizen, whic ...
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  • Ethanol And Animal Feed?
    By: MattHartwig | - Just how much animal feed does the American ethanol industry produce each year? According to a new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association, Americas ethanol producers delivered 23 million metric tons of livestock and poultry feed to the world last year, or nearly three times the amount of wheat, sorghum, barley and oats fed to U.S. livestock in the 2007/08 marketing year. Put another way, the amount of feed produced by the ethanol industry in 2007/08 is roughly equivalent to the combined ...
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  • International Views On Biofuels
    By: MattHartwig | - I am just back from spending a week with 250 agricultural journalists from all over the world. The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists congress is an annual event that meets each year in a different country. This year we visited Austria and Slovenia - next year the congress will come to the United States and we will entertain the group in Fort Worth, Texas.

    It is always interesting to get perspectives on agriculture from other countries. Biofuels production was a ...
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  • High Energy Costs Driving Force Behind Changes
    By: MattHartwig | - A study released earlier this year by the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M found that higher energy costs are the driving force behind changes in the agricultural industry.

    As Jeff Broin, CEO of leading ethanol producer POET, points out in an interview with blog Earth2Tech, the answers we need can be found with a little simple arithmetic.

    A study from the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M said, The underlying force driving c ...
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  • Ethanol And The Us Corn Crop
    By: MattHartwig | - The American farmer and the American ethanol producer have been under attack, criticized for seeking to capitalize on the productivity and bounty of American agriculture to help solve this nations energy crisis. In particular, critics often misrepresent the impact of ethanol production on American corn and total grain supplies, contorting facts and reporting statistics completely out of context.

    In advance of the USDAs September World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates ...
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  • Ethanol Producer Icm In Kc Star
    By: MattHartwig | - Dave Vander Griend, CEO of ethanol producer ICM (based in Colwich, KS), has a fantastic op-ed published in the Kansas City Star today.

    Vander Griend begins with talking about the recent manufactured food or fuel argument.

    In the past, the ethanol industry has been blamed for high food prices and environmental damage.

    Last month, the EPA along with several major universities corrected those misconceptions, stating that ethanol is not the roo ...
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  • How To Convert Gasoline Car Into An Electric Car?
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - If you own a gas guzzling vehicle and are interested in making the conversion of it over to an electric car, believe it or not, you can actually do it. There are conversion kits that can make a gasoline powered vehicle into an electric car, but doing it is not an easy job. You will want to find the services of an experienced mechanic to help you make the conversion over to an electric car.

    You see, there are many components of a gasoline powered car that can be modified to allow ...
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  • Will Ford Produce A Fully Electric Car Instead Of Hybrid Cars In The Near Future?
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - While the Ford Motor Company is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world, they have long been reluctant to get into the electric car market. However, they did manufacture, market, and sell an electric car in an attempt to meet the consumer demands for a cleaner car that will produce less pollution and emit no greenhouse gases. Ford responded with their own version of the electric car.

    The Think City electric car was produced by Ford several years ago, and many people to ...
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  • The Unknown History Of Electric Cars
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Believe it or not, the electric car was invented a long, long time ago. In 1900, electric cars outsold both gasoline and steam vehicles because electric cars did not have the vibration, noise and dirtiness associated with gas vehicles.

    But soon afterward with the discovery of Texas crude oil that reduced the price of gasoline, the invention of the electric starter in 1912 that eliminated the need for a hand crank, and the mass production of internal combustion engine vehicles by ...
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  • Do You Have The Proper Tools To Build An Electric Car?
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - There are many places that you can find electric car conversion kits. What is an electric car conversion kit? Well, it is a set of equipment and parts that will allow you to make your gasoline powered car into an electric car. Many specialty car places carry electric car conversion kits or you can find them readily available online.

    You will first have to make sure that having an electric car will fit your needs. Before you go out and spend a lot of money on an electric car co ...
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  • The New Generation Of Electric Car Batteries
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Electric cars run on batteries anywhere from 12 to 24 of them underneath the hood. When it comes time for new batteries, they are actually readily available. The batteries used to run an electric car are similar to those used to power cell phones and even those little vehicles that kids like to drive around the yard. Getting new batteries for your electric car should not be a problem when the time comes.

    The reality is that electric car batteries last for quite a long time, so ...
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  • Electric Cars And The Unexpected Speeds
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - When it comes to one of the newest developments in the vehicle industry electric cars the facts about them are plentiful and easy to come by. This new alternative to regular gasoline powered cars has many people very excited about being able to have reliable transportation without damaging the environment. So what are the facts about electric cars?

    First, there are many types of electric cars you can choose from, but all of them use an electric motor that runs on batteries that ...
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  • The Unknown Facts About Electric Cars
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Believe it or not, electric cars have been around for a very long time. In the early 1900s, there were more electric cars than there were gasoline powered cars. Back in the early 1920s when vehicles were becoming more popular, gasoline was very expensive. It also was hard to start a gasoline engine, you had to turn and turn and turn a crank in front of the car to get it to start. There was no key to start the car like we have today.

    Gasoline vehicles were also noisy and put out ...
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  • Know The Different Types Of Alternative Fuels
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - There are many different types of alternative fuels that are being developed these days which is an exciting innovation in the vehicle industry. Alternative fuels are the wave of the future as scientists look for cleaner burning fuels that will not damage the environment while providing great advantages to the vehicle owner. They have come up with several.

    Probably the most well known type of alternative fuel is ethanol. Ethanol is often called grain alcohol as it is made from ...
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  • Will Hummer Use Alternative Fuels?
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Ever since the military allowed the design of the hummer to be made public, people have gone crazy over its design. General Motors acquired the brand name and marketing rights of the hummer and now that alternative fuels have begun to grow in popularity, they are also beginning to make an alternative fuel hummer.

    Classically, the hummer has been a non-favorite vehicle for environmentalists because it gets horrific gas mileage and uses more gas than a regular vehicle. That is why ...
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  • Can Bio Diesel Be Used In Conventional Diesel Engine Vehicles?
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Many vehicles run on diesel fuel, but with the growing push toward environmentally safer fuels for vehicles, do diesel vehicle owners have any alternative other than diesel fuel? Yes they do. It is called biodiesel and it is making a big splash in the fuel industry.

    Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel ...
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  • The Future Of Alternative Fuel Vehicles
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - There is a growing trend toward pushing people to use new alternative fuels to power their vehicles. Alternative fuel burns cleaner, is better for the environment, and, in many cases, can be cheaper than gasoline. But not just any car will run on alternative fuels. The engine must be constructed in a different way to adapt to the new substance that it will be running on.

    Almost all major car companies have jumped right on to the alternative fuel bandwagon by manufacturing a var ...
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  • The Unexpected Expansion Of Alternative Fuels
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - The expansion of the alternative fuel business has exploded these days as people are looking more and more toward improving the environment and perhaps even saving some money in the process. As gas prices continue to skyrocket, gasoline companies know that they must start considering an expansion of their companies to compete in the alternative fuel race if they want to stay afloat.

    Alternative fuels are simply those that are not made with any oil products. They are manufactu ...
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  • Learn How To Save Your Money By Alternative Fuels
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Right now in the United States, there is a huge push for people to use alternative fuels as opposed to gasoline. There are many reasons for this push. Generally, it is because alternative fuels are kinder to the environment and can help to combat the ever-growing problem of global warming.

    The price of driving a car is rising at an alarming rate. It has become very expensive to drive a car, so people are looking out for ways to save money on their fuel. Scientists are developi ...
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  • Pros And Cons Of Alternative Fuel
    By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Just like with any new, slightly controversial subject, there will always be pros and cons to talk about and that is no different with the new drive toward the use of alternative fuels to power our vehicles. People who support alternative fuels the pros could list a hundred ways that alternative fuel helps. On the other hands those who oppose it the cons could also list a hundred ways we should use alternative fuels.

    To begin with, alternative fuel is cleaner burning than gasolin ...
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  • Will Our Leaders Follow?
    By: Barb Miller | - WILL OUR LEADERS FOLLOW?

    While politicians argue about how to solve America's energy problems, the ethanol industry is actually developing new technologies to help reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

    For example, the Irvine, California-based company BlueFire Ethanol will soon be producing fuel from cellulosic material such as wood chips, non-recyclable paper, construction debris, grass clippings and other "green" municipal waste. This is waste that wo ...
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  • 8 Ways To Declare Your Energy Independence
    By: Barb Miller | - The summer months are upon us. For most American families this means family vacations, summer sports leagues and barbeques in the back yard are in full swing. However, with high gas prices, many families are being forced to cut back on some of these activities. In fact, the latest trend is staycations, or vacations taken in your hometown or nearby. There is relief on the horizon though, if Americans are willing to fight for it!

    Did you know America's current domestic gasol ...
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  • Alternative Fuels... What Are They?
    By: Shawn Milano | - The alcohol found in alcoholic beverages is ethanol. However, the ethanol used for motor fuel is denatured, which means poison has been added so people can't drink it. Some people believe that producing ethanol takes more energy than it gives back and for the most part, this is true.  However, technologies have evolved in such a way that it is possible to increase the efficiency of producing ethanol.

    Right now in the United States, there is a huge push for people to use alter ...
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  • Electricity Is Not Always The Best Home Fuel Option
    By: Kenneth Scott | - When most people think of fuel for home furnaces, electricity immediately comes to mind. But there may very well be cases where electric is not the best option for fueling home furnaces.

    Consider these situations and the alternatives to electric. While electricity is a clean fuel in many ways, it may also be the most unreliable in some areas. For people in rural areas, electric power is often at the mercy of nature. Storms notoriously knock out power sometimes for days or weeks. ...
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  • Converting Your Vehicles To Use E85 - Ethanol Fuel
    By: Vidar Lura | - I and many others have converted their gasoline car to run on E85 (ethanol fuel). This is a guide on how to do the same thing.

    First of all, what is E85?:
    E85 consists of 85% ethanol and 15% additives. The additives vary a lot depending on where you live and time of the year. But roughly, the 15% additives is mostly made up of gasoline, additives that helps the engine to make a complete burn, additives that helps the engine start when its cold and additives to color the fue ...
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  • Biodiesel Making Course Review - Must Read Now!!
    By: Charles Hamel | - Gas prices continue to rise during the holiday shopping
    season. The national average as of December 1st 2006 is
    $2.27 regular, $2.28 diesel. With the popularity of Hybrid
    cars and the approaching re-interest in Electric cars the
    public is clearly fed up with not only the prices of fuel
    but also the dependency on foreign countries for our energy
    sources. Depending on foreign countries for our fuel source
    is not only ridiculous but unnecessar ...
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  • Unique Fuel Conversion System For Ethanol Power Cars
    By: Vidar Lura | - It is a product of sugar metabolism in certain species of yeast in the absence of oxygen. The process of culturing yeast under conditions to produce alcohol is referred to as brewing. Yeasts can grow in the presence of up to only about 14% alcohol, but the concentration of alcohol in the final product can be increased by distillation.

    Ethanol contains oxygen that provides a cleaner and more efficient burn of the fuel. When used in ethanol power cars, it reduces carbon dioxide, a m ...
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  • How To Improve Air Quality With Alternative Fuels!
    By: Vidar Lura | - The market of alternative fuel sources is larger today than it has ever been before. Alternative fuels are materials that are rich in energy and that can be used instead of traditional gasoline. Biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, methanol and propane can be used as alternative fuels as they contain much less harmful substances.

    Using various types of alternative fuels can also help to reduce dependence on imported gasoline and improve air quality.

    Alternative Fuel Conver ...
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  • How Reduce Our Foreign Oil Dependency While Saving Money At The Pump
    By: Robert Riley | - If you watch or listen to the news, discussions come up all the time about the price of a barrel of oil and the cost of fuel at the gas pump. The sale of large SUV's has plummeted and manufacturers have been giving huge rebates to manufacturers just to get rid of them. With gas prices climbing, people are seeking other ways to save on fuel such as buying small or mid-size SUV's, smaller cars or Hybrids. When listening to the news, you may also hear about alternative fuels such as E85, Hydrogen ...
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  • Don't Forget To Wash (your Biodiesel, That Is)
    By: Mike Cubert | - Some makers of biodiesel are satisfied to let their newly produced mixture simply sit untouched for about a week to allow the bulk of the soap residues settle to the bottom before running the product through a filter and into their fuel tank. But for a cleaner biodiesel that burns better, runs better, gets better mileage, and minimizes wear and tear on your engine, you may wish to consider taking this stage of the process a step further.

    There are numerous ways to wash biodiesel, ...
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  • Geothermal Energy: Energy From The Earth
    By: Mike Batta | - The simplest way to get energy is to use what is already there. The heat in the earth is already there and we just need to dig into it to tap it as a source of energy.

    On the surface, we can stand the heat of the earth, but deep below, immense power is stored as tremendous heat.

    The core of the earth is over 60 times hotter than boiling water. This heat creates pressure that is just below the surface of the earth. In other words, we don't have to go to the center o ...
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