A great amount of thermal energy (heat) is stored in the world’s oceans. Each day, the oceans absorb enough heat from the sun to equal the thermal energy contained in 250 billion barrels of oil. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Systems (OTEC) systems convert this thermal energy into electricity — often while producing desalinated water. […]
Fuel cells as the name suggest are devices which produce electricity. They are similar to battery in the way that the chemical composition in a battery is carried by a fuel cell too. The difference lies in the restructured pattern of a fuel cell and subsequently a modified chemical reaction, quite different from a conventional […]
Biomass connotes to living and off lately dead those biological material that are used for industrial production or as a fuel. It is inclusive of both plant and animal matter that are used for production of chemicals or fibers. It also includes biodegradable waste but excludes that organic material which has been transformed by geological […]
Alternative sources of energy, or renewable energy as they are better known as, seem to be an excellent choice for people building new home or who want to purchase a new automobile. However there are few disadvantages of alternative sources of energy as well that need to be considered realistically before investing in them.Alternative energy […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nobel Peace Prize win by Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel last week is seen as a major step forward to alternative energy technologies and research that are already into their best phase ever, experts said.
“It’s a quiet revolution,” said Sarah Emerson, the managing director of Boston-Based Energy Security […]
It might not be a revolutionary new idea that the Scientists of Columbia University are proposing, however it is definitely a new concept that they are trying to bring into existence. Shortage of farm lands is not news to anyone from this world. In countries like Japan farmlands are more of a luxury property […]
In August this year, the United States House of Representatives had passed a bill unanimously that required all the operational utility companies registered in the United States to produce at least 15 percentage of the total amount of their electricity from renewable resources such as the wind or the sun by the year 2020.
The bill […]
1. Saves you money
The most lucrative advantage of solar power is that it is free, just the initial investment is needed after which the whole energy that you consume is completely free. This reduces the recovery period of the installation of the equipment. There are many financial incentives also that are given by the government […]
The regions under the earth’s crust are hot and as we all know that is the very source if geothermal energy. The steam from these hot areas is used to drive the turbines which in turn power the electric generators.
Locations
The biggest disadvantage is that there are not many locations that are suitable for the geothermal […]
