Alternative Energy

The Alternative Energy Revolution Starts In Your Own Home

Whether you are concerned about global warming, or whether you are concerned about the national security implications of our dependence on imported oil, getting our civilization un-hooked from its addiction to fossil fuels is an issue that everyone should be able to agree on. And it should also be clear to anyone who is awake that waiting around for government …

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Heat Your Living Space with A Trombe Wall, Water Wall, or Roof Pond

[widget:ad_unit-1248729112]Indirect solar gain is one of three methods of passive solar heating, in addition to isolated and direct gain. When solar heat is collected in one area and transferred to another through the process of convection, this is the indirect method. Here’s a rundown of how it works. As with most passive solar heating systems that don’t require the use …

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Oil and Power Prices on a Slippery Slope

European energy company E.ON has reported losses this month so far, due to the falling prices of crude oil. With all the panic at the beginning of the year are we finally seeing some much needed price drops for energy? More: continued here

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Oil Sands From Athabasca

Northern Alberta, Canada is the location of a very large, rich oil sand field. The Athabasca oil sands are named for the Athabasca River, where the oil sands are easily seen from the river banks. One third of the world’s oil sands are found here in Alberta, Canada and in Venezuela. The Athabasca oil sands field is unique in that …

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Monitoring Your Hydro Bills

Working in an industry where saving hydro means big bucks, I’ve come to realize the importance of regularly reviewing your hydro bills and at the same time how many of us don’t. A small mistake for a residential customer paying only a couple hundred dollars a month doesn’t add up to much and probably isn’t worth the effort to fix. …

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John McCain – Energy Policy for 2008 Election

John McCain’s Energy Policy – Campaign 2008 John McCain Commerical John McCain talks about Ethanol * FactCheck: Oil independence will take 25 years, not 5 years. (Dec 2007) * Climate change is real; nuclear power is solution. (Oct 2007) * Public pressure on oil industry to invest in alternatives. (Oct 2007) * FactCheck: nuclear plants do emit no GHGs, but …

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Barack Obama – Energy Policy for 2008 Election

Barack Obama’s Energy Policy – Campaign 2008 * Energy ANWR: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in northern Alaska that contains substantial supplies of oil and gas. Conservatives favor drilling ANWR to extract the oil, while liberals favor maintaining its protected status. * Deregulation Crisis: California suffered ‘rolling blackouts’ in 2001 due to insufficient energy supplies. California …

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Put Your Job to Bed Before You Leave Work

It is good for business and good for the environment to put your job to bed before you leave work. We need to put our work places into low energy mode when we are done, just like putting your home into energy saving mode at bedtime. Giving the electric meter a break when we take a break saves money and …

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Unique online textbook company’s program to save and plant trees

We all feel guilty at times buying books and paper products when we don’t need them to be physical products or if we really want to save some dough and buy used textbooks for classes and cannot find them. Well leave it to the internet and some innovation. iChapters is a an online book store that sells used textbooks, ebooks, …

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New Year Brings About Gas And Electricity Price Hikes

It hasn’t been a happy new year for most this year, the celebrations have been overshadowed by incredible rises in energy prices. Increases of 15% in some cases have left many bill payers wondering why and how they are having to pay for gas and electricity. More: continued here

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Price of Oil Rising Makes Gas Pump Wars Inevitable

In the 1980’s and 1990’s, gasoline prices in the United States were at all-time lows because of new discoveries of large oil supplies in the Middle East and other regions and because of a relatively small demand for those large excess supplies of oil. In the last decade, however, the sharp rise in demand for petroleum products, especially in China, …

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Ancient Chinese Historic Wisdom and Global Warming

Bio gas is being created in China: the use of methane gas from animal and human waste to fuel the family gas stove for meals. This is reducing household and earthly deadly carbon emissions. While we criticize China, they are helping place one hundred million of these basically recycling septic tanks, which has cleaner homes, healthier families and enormous further …

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Homeowners Should Take Steps Against ‘Impact Of Higher Energy Bills’

Yet another utility price rise announcement could put Britons under more financial pressure, it has been suggested. According to price comparison website uSwitch, the recent decision by British Gas to put up its rates could increase bills for about half of its 16 million customers. The energy company has announced that both prices for gas and electricity are to go …

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Video Channels

Alternative Energy HQ has video channels where you can view the most popular videos on each of our energy topics. Solar Video Channel Bio diesel Video Channel Wind Power Video Channel Alternative Energy Video Channel Hybrid Cars Video Channel Electric Cars Video Channel Hydrogen Fuel Video Channel BioFuels Video Channel Water Fuel Video Channel Wave Power Video Channel

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Alternative Energy Video Channels

Alternative Energy HQ has video channels where you can view the most popular videos on each of our energy topics. Solar Video Channel Biodiesel Video Channel Wind Power Video Channel Alternative Energy Video Channel Hybrid Cars Video Channel Electric Cars Video Channel Hydrogen Fuel Video Channel Bio Fuel Video Channel Water Fuel Video Channel Wave Power Video Channel

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Homeowners Must Take Action Against Energy Bill Increases

A significant number of consumers may find that their finances will come under further pressure, it has been suggested. From Friday January 18th, EDF Energy is to increase its standard tariffs for both electricity and gas. Costs for the former are to go up by 7.9 per cent, or an average of 28 pounds, while electric bills are set to …

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Oil Prices Rise as Temperature Plummets

In the frigid Northeastern United States, homeowners prepare to tighten their belts as forecasters have predicted much lower temperatures in the region in the recent future. As the consumer of 80% of the world’s heating oil, the Northeastern United States often serves as a barometer for the raising and lowering of the price of oil across the world. The Midwestern …

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