Alternative Fuel World

News relating to alternative-fueled cars and negative environmental impacts of using coal for energy


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    Check out this guy’s video of his electric-powered 1975 Beetle. His electric Volkswagen Bug raises a simple question. What’s the answer?

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  • 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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  • Biomass is Organic matter available on a renewable basis. Biomass includes forest and mill residues, agricultural crops and wastes, wood and wood wastes, animal wastes, livestock operation residues, aquatic plants, fast-growing trees and plants, and municipal and industrial wastes.

    Now that you know exactly what biomass is, we’ll explain some different biomass techniques that’s been used for centuries and tell you the usefulness of biomass compared to other solutions and its shortcomings.

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