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As the news media likes to discuss daily, there are many risks to hydrogen fuel vehicles. Not the least of which is the cost effective replacement of tanks at refueling stations the world over.

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Natural gas consumption usually rises and falls with the seasons. In the winter months, we historically have used a lot more natural gas for heating. We are trending towards using natural gas for electricity, in addition to heat. Therefore, we are using more and more natural gas year round. Spikes in the summer are becoming more common than ever now that natural gas is being used for cooling our homes and businesses. The high demand for clean burning, energy efficient natural gas demands that we constantly extract, process and transport natural gas to the areas that need it most. We also must store excess gas so that it is ready for use. We store certain amounts based on projected consumption and we store excess amounts that will ensure that the supply equals or exceeds the demand when natural gas needs spike higher than expected.

We used to mainly consume coal gas. Coal gas was stored in gasometers starting in the mid-eighteenth century. These were large, above-ground tanks that slowly sunk into the ground as the gas stores were depleted. Coal gas was used mainly in towns for lighting, heating and sometimes cooking. Coal gas quickly became widely referred to as town gas. Once large natural gas fields were discovered in the late twentieth century, we ultimately stopped using coal gas. Natural gas is far safer and cheaper than coal gas ever was.

Energy Tags: solar energy, hybrid cars

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 opportunities to utilize this simple, brilliant, low cost way to clean up our acts.

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Everybody's talking about the power of Hydrogen. What they don't tell you is that Hydrogen cars with their pressurized hydrogen, and hydrogen gas stations - are a BIG safety hazard.

It gets worse: hydrogen factories pollute the environment and spoil the ecological advantage of hydrogen cars.

The solution Water Fuel provides you with is called "Hydrogen-On-Demand" - you produce Hydrogen when you need it. No storage tanks!!! Far better for the environment; perfectly safe for you and your passengers.

This company offers a cost effective, immediate solution to the "energy crisis" and pollution - right now. Something YOU can do NOW, using water. Water Fuel technology provides you with a great ENTRY-LEVEL solution you can install in a few minutes without engine modifications, you start driving, and the next thing you know - you start thinking: "Hey, something CAN be done about it!"

You have to check it out and see if you think it is real!

Energy Tags: clean energy, solar power

Talk about a ground swell. Bio diesel is getting noticed everywhere these days, of course it doesn't hurt to have a few famous people out trumping the cause. [the short list, sorry if I left anyone off- Willie Nelson, Daryl Hannah , Melissa Etheridge, Mandy Moore, Woody Harrelson, and more]

Today the SF Chronicle had a big front page article on the spreading acceptance of biodiesel. The mainstream media now wakes up to what is sweeping the nation in a somewhat grassroots movement.

In the article they detail how the users of biodiesel are growing and the number of places you can fill up your tank or tanks are sprouting up around the Bay Area. It is funny but I would bet that only a year ago most of the places that they talk about were serving a couple people a day and now this year they have lines and a real business in place.

In fact they even detail how to make your own biodiesel at home. Amazing. Jay Talton has been pushing this idea for awhile now but today you can read about it in a major newspaper.

"A lot of our customers switched to biodiesel because of the war," she said. "That's probably common in the Bay Area, but across the country, it's probably because of concern about climate change and renewable energy. And that it's so cool."

Want to make your own? Here is a recipe source.

Now this energy source is not the big time solution to this countries energy woes. It does help on a local scale but for now to really drive all the country's cars on it a would take too much bio fuel. For now though it is good to be using up all that excess oil from restaurants…..