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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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Coal is a combustible black sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. Its the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States. The carbon is compressed over millions and billions of years in the Earths soil.
Coal is a non-renewable energy source because it takes millions of years to create and we’re consuming more [...]

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Fossil fuels such as coail, oil, and natural gas are non-renewable source of energy. The fossil fuels are formed from animals and plants that lived up to 500 million years ago and have been covered over time in the Earths soil deep below the surface.
The fossil fuels are burned to release their chemical energy that [...]

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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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A nuclear reactor is a man made device in which nuclear chain ractors are initiated, controlled, then sustrined at a steady rate. As long as the nuclear reactions are maintained at a steady rate the risk for explosion is realtively small. Unlike a nuclear bomb whose explosion comes from the chain raction, and being uncontrolled [...]

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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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