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2008 The Funding of Alternative and Green Energy Innovations

The cost of using fossil fuels to make energy for our nation is getting to be an economic burden on our middle class and country. Using Oil for fuel in our cars is causing significant problems with monetary outflows. Burning coal is polluting the air and that is a challenge to our health and environment. Luckily there is some good …

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Saving on Energy Bills With Attic Insulation

The National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association (NEADA) estimates that home heating fuel prices could rise as much as 47 percent this winter. To save on energy bills, the best place to start is with the attic. Attics are a significant source of heat loss in under-insulated homes. There are also incentives in the form of a federal tax credit if …

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Save on Energy Bills With These No-Cost Energy Saving Tips

While there are plenty of costly ways to save on your utility bills this winter like buying a high efficiency furnace or solar-paneled roof, there also are things you can do to cut energy usage that won’t cost a thing. Effective energy solutions can be implemented simply by knowing what to look for around your home. Following are no-cost energy …

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Drilling and Testing for Oil

Description of the drilling procedure and the various tests done to make sure the appropriate and maximum depth has been reached to get the most oil flowing from a chosen site. Once the oil rig system is set up and in place, the crew starts the drilling operation. Above where the geologists have predicted the oil trap is located, a …

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Differences Between Types of Offshore Oil Platforms

The continuous need for oil in all parts of the world has motivated the development of new ways to discover and obtain it. Because large supplies of oil are often found offshore, in oceans and lakes where fault lines and specific rock formations occur, oil companies and their engineers have pioneered new ways of drilling by developing many different types …

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Oil and the Supertanker

This article details the development of the tanker ship. From the beginning of oil exploration and discovery, the need to transport oil to consumers existed. More: continued here

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Alaska Pipeline Importance

This article details the importance of the Alaskan Pipeline. The oil fields of Alaska remain a mostly untapped resource that the United States looks to for fuel in the future. The U.S. has been depending on Alaska for 17% of its domestic crude for about 3 decades now, due to its large supplies that have been found thus far and …

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Google to Fund Alternative Energy Research

Google announced yesterday that they are going to take their large fund of cash and use some of it to support research into alternative energy development in order to help offset energy usage at their company and beyond. They intend to fund solar energy and wind power strategies. “We have gained expertise in designing and building large-scale, energy-intensive facilities by …

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Portable Solar Power Not Just For Environmentalists

While camping in remote areas or working in construction where electric power is at a premium, having your own portable solar power unit to plug into can supply some of the power needed for comfort or convenience. Most people consider solar power as a means of alternative power generation that will eventually replace coal-fired generating plants but the sun plays …

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Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Most vertical axis wind turbines are very silent, emitting only a slight humming sound near the equipment. Some of the more adventurous designs have the look of sculpture adding another dimension to your installation. More: continued here

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The Mysterious Energy Audit Revealed

Energy Audit is perhaps the most misunderstood, and therefore the least utilized of all Australian business tools. The word audit has sent cold shivers down the spine of many a business executive in the past, yet undeservedly so, because after all is an audit not simply a business check to see if all is well? More: continued here

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The History of Solar Power Development

The search and attempt to harness the infinite power and energy of the sun has challenged man’s ingenuity to experiment various ways of tapping into this powerful source of power. The history of solar has its origins back to the 7th century B.C. right up to the 20 A.D. we have records of the development of solar technology from the …

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Portable Electricity Available With Power Inverters

Ever wish you could have electricity available any time you wanted or needed it? What if you could have electricity in a place where no outlet is available? You only need three things to make this possible and we have discovered how to do it. More: continued here

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Developing Nuclear Power As Alternative Energy

Many researchers believe that harnessing the power of the atom in fission reactions is the most significant alternative energy resource that we have, for the fact of the immense power that it can generate. Nuclear power plants are very clean-burning and their efficiency is rather staggering. More: continued here

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Are We Really Being Efficient?

Is buying energy saving lights and appliances really going help us decrease the number of generating facilities we require to provide us with the energy we need now and in the future? More: continued here

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