Posted on 07 July 2008
According to Japan’s business news source, Nikkei, Toyota is planning a Prius with solar panels by Kyocera Corp. Toyota has not unveiled any design plans for the solar panels. The solar panels will power the air conditioning on the Prius. If the solar panels on the Prius are only used to power the car’s air [...]
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Posted on 22 June 2008
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom’s oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. and other oil consumers to increase its crude output to help slow the [...]
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Posted on 20 June 2008
Rising gas prices have consumers pinching their wallets where they aren’t used to. Still most consumers are not driving less, and oil consumption is rising higher every day.
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Gas prices have gone up so dramatically in recent months that people are understandably nervous. One way they’re dealing with that is buying hybrid vehicles like the Prius. The Prius is virtually synonymous with hybrid, but maybe there’s a better choice? Check out this video from Edmund’s on YouTube. You might be suprised!
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Alternative Fueled Cars
Posted on 27 June 2008
Put quite simply, an alternative-fueled car is one that runs on non-traditional gasoline or diesel. In other words, it is powered by something other than just petroleum, which would include the standard plug-in electric cars, gas-electric hybrids or those which are solar powered. Now the compressed-air-powered piston engine cars with zero admissions are gaining mainstream [...]
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Fueling Methods
Posted on 21 June 2008
Now that you know what methanol is, one limited use for methanol is in automotive fuel. Internal combustion engines, mainly by virture of the fact that is it not nearly as falmmable as gasoline.
Pure methanol is required by rule to be used in USAC sprint cars, midgets, modifieds, etc etc, other dirt track series and [...]
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Non-Conventional Oils
Posted on 21 June 2008
Nuclear power is any nuclear technology that can produce extractable energy sources and uses. Most the time this nuclear reaction is taken out in a controlled and sustainable environment called “Nuclear Reactors“.
The most commonly used method for nuclear energy today is fission, other methods like fussion, and radioactive decay also exisit today. All current methods [...]
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Other Fossil Fuels
Posted on 21 June 2008
Natural gas is a gaseious fossil fuel consisiting primarily of methane and including amounts of ethane, propane, butane and pentane. Natural gas is also discussed under the “Geothermal Energy” article.
Natural gas can be found in oil fields, dissolved or isolaed natural gas fields, and in coal beds. When methane rich gases are produced by the [...]
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Renewable Energy
Posted on 20 June 2008
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. In windmills, wind energy is directly used to crush grain or to pump water. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatt’s.
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