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Oil Prices are Not Likely to Go Down

China and India are emerging as Asia’s new powerhouses for gobbling up fossil fuels. Economists and experts agree that this will do nothing to bring down the price for oil any time soon. It has been noted that India and China can account for over 2/3 of the global growth in the demand for oil. […]

Questions Arising about Ethanol as an Energy Alternative

New questions are being asked about switching from oil as a source of energy to the grain needed to create ethanol. Two top publications are raising doubts about whether ethanol is really beneficial to the environment or if it will contribute further to global warming.
These findings will have a huge impact on the United States […]

Energy Mistakes that can Cost You Big

Because the cost of energy is so high these days, many consumers have taken it upon themselves to try and reduce energy waste in their homes. Their intentions may be good, but the plan in its execution is not. Check to see if you are making any of these common energy saving mistakes that do […]

Have Muscle Cars Made Their Last Appearance?

Muscle cars - they are a boy’s rite of passage. Boys rarely have a passion for anything the way they have a fascination for their race cars. It seems with the new emissions legislation as well as the pressure on carmakers to ensure that all cars manufactured in the future have energy efficiency of at […]

Why Don’t We Use Wind Power?

With all the focus on alternative energy sources, why are we not looking more into converting the wind into power? It is not as if it’s a new idea or has never been tried before. We know that you can successfully harness the wind in order to convert it into power.
Many feel the reason that […]

Tidal Energy

The ocean is one of the biggest sources of energy. Apart from the fossil fuels that dominate mainstream fuels, the ocean is also the provider of alternative energy sources like Wave energy, Tidal energy and Thermal Energy. Potentially the most powerful of these is Tidal Energy.
Tidal energy, sometimes also known as tidal power, is basically […]

BioFuel

Biofuel is sometimes referred to as agro fuel , reason being simple, the origin. It can be in any form, solid, liquid or gaseous however, Biofuel is generally a liquid or gaseous fuel.
Biofuel’s importance has gained topmost importance owing to increased greenhouse effect and reduction in the reserves of other fuels. The good news is […]

Low-Tech Solar Wall to lower heating costs

About an year ago there was an informative article about a Solar Heater priced at a mere $350, for its price and its ability to completely run off solar energy and  being highly effectiveness the Solar heater gathered a lot of interest from interest groups as well as builders.. after all collecting heat into an […]

Wave energy

The ocean is a source of vast amounts of energy; the water carries with it huge amounts of potential and kinetic energy which is harnessed can solve the world’s energy problems twice over. Wave energy is a concept where the energy from the ocean is meant to be utilized. The techniques developed are
1)    Open […]

Ground water recharge affected by climate change

There could be a serious setback to the ecological protection measures if the levels of carbon dioxide continue to rise at the rate it is currently. The carbon dioxide increase can adversely affect the weather, air and vegetation, that are common knowledge, but now another graver problem is coming to the fore, the increase in […]