A century ago, Henry Ford’s first car ran on alcohol, while Rudolf Diesel fired his namesake engine with peanut oil. But both inventors soon discovered that “rock oil,” when slightly refined, held far more bang per gallon than plant fuel, and was cheap to boot. Oil soon left plant fuels in the dust. Only in periods of scarcity—like the OPEC oil embargo of 1973—did the U.S. and other countries turn back to ethanol, mixing it into gasoline to stretch supplies.
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A century ago, Henry Ford’s first car ran on alcohol, while Rudolf Diesel fired his namesake engine with peanut oil. But both inventors soon discovered that “rock oil,” when slightly refined, held far more bang per gallon than plant fuel, and was cheap to boot. Oil soon left plant fuels in the dust. Only in periods of scarcity—like the OPEC oil embargo of 1973—did the U.S. and other countries turn back to ethanol, mixing it into gasoline to stretch supplies.
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Locations of the 400+ U.S. Wind-Related Manufacturing Facilities and Number of Wind Industry Jobs per State Source: (AWEA 2011) U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report, Year Ending 2010 Wind power is an affordable, efficient and abundant source of domestic electricity. It's pollution-free and cost-competitive with energy from new coal- and gas-fired power plants in many regions.
How Do Wind Turbines Make Energy? | eHow - 1 views
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A wind turbine gathers energy from the wind through the mechanical rotation of its blades. This is mechanically generated energy from kinetic energy that is then turned into electrical energy.
Ocean Wave Energy | BOEM - 0 views
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Waves are caused by the wind blowing over the surface of the ocean
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. Ocean waves contain tremendous energy potential. Wave power devices extract energy from the surface motion of ocean waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface.
Solar Energy Diagram | Complete Diagrams on Solar Energy Facts - 1 views
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Then we’ll present diagrams and discuss photovoltaic solar, solar hot water, and concentrated solar power. The easiest way to think about these is: am I using solar energy to heat water (solar hot water and CSP) or am I converting sunlight directly into electricity (photovoltaic cells)? Solar Energy Diagram #1 – Insolation
Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Sunlight is Earth's primary source of energy.
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The energy stored in petroleum and other fossil fuels was originally converted from sunlight by photosynthesis in the distant past.[119]
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Panels - 1 views
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yes but they will if you get enough of them they will outlast the fossil fuels but as this all burns out it can work as we will also by finding new planets we could find more and more fuels i expect this would . happen within a few decades of our time. as this might happen we could probably be able to live on other planets by then so when the sun actuly goes out we will be prepared
How Geothermal Energy Works - 0 views
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The amount with in the earth’s surface contains 50,000 times more energy than all the oil and natural gas resources in the world.
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To get that heat, water is pumped down an “injection well”. Then it filters through the cracks in the rocks where they are at a high temperature. The water then returns via the “recovery well” under pressure in the form of steam. That steam is captured and is used to drive electric generators.
Electrical Power Generation from Biofuels - 0 views
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Generating plant fuelled by biomass uses conventional steam turbine electricity generating plant as used in coal fired power stations with modifications to the combustion chamber and fuel handling systems to handle the bulkier fuel.
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