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Global Warming

If you’re able to use a computer and can read this newsletter, you’ll have no doubt heard about global warming. You’ve probably heard different stories about what could be causing global warming and what it’ll do to us, ranging from the effect that CFC gases have on the ozone layer to global warming being nothing [...]

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Alternative Energy – Affordability and Availability

Energy analysts can often jump on the bandwagon and scare people into thinking that we are running out of oil. The only effect this has is to raise oil prices as people become concerned at the perceived threat of a reduce supply increases demand and so opportunists push up prices. But we are not running [...]

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Green Fuels – The Facts

Have you heard about cars that run on peanut oil? Well when Rudolph Diesel invented his engine — the ones we now run on what has become known as ‘diesel’ (Named after him)— he ran his on peanut oil. Nowadays all sorts of vegetable oils are being used to replace traditional diesel and, not least, [...]

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Alternative Energy: Ethanol

As people look to fuel alternatives, one of the considerations is ethanol. There are many types of bio-fuels out there (that is, fuels that don’t rely on limited natural resources), and ethanol is one of the most likely to turn into mainstream fuel. Hydrogen may be one of the best sources because of how much [...]

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Alternative Energy

Electrical Automobiles: This technology is still in the growth stage and continues to be considered a viable alternative to fossil fuel consumption. Let’s face it, if your auto runs on electricity exclusively, then you are not emitting any gases at all. Environmentally speaking, this is terrific. But wait a minute – how do electric vehicles [...]

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Alternative Energy – Biodiesel

Efforts to find affordable replacements to current vehicle fuel choices, biodiesel has quickly become one of the leading alternatives. Biodiesel is considered a renewable eco-friendly resource derived from vegetable oil or animal fats. Once the vegetable oil or animal fat is processed, it becomes a combustible material, like the petroleum-based diesel currently used today in [...]

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Algae Blooms

Is it a plant? Is it an animal? Algae are very unusual! Algae are microscopic organisms, and are usually considered to be just simple aquatic plants. Pond scum, really. But it may surprise you to learn that some algae display characteristics we would normally associate with an animal. Characteristics like motility and a cell structure [...]

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