After long summer months of open windows and back yard grilling, the first energy bill of winter can be a real show stopper. In this economy, conserving energy and money is on everyone’s minds. Finding alternative ways to heat your home is one way combat that frightening winter energy bill, and a pellet stove may be the solution for you. …

Washington, D.C. – Global production of biofuels increased 17 percent in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters, up from 90 billion liters in 2009. High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, …

the report shows that in 2010, renewable energy supplied an estimated 16% of global final energy consumption and delivered close to 20% of global electricity production. Renewable capacity now comprises about a quarter of total global power-generating capacity. Including large and small hydropower (an estimated 30 GW added in 2010), renewable energy accounted for approximately 50% of total added power-generating capacity in 2010. In 2010, existing solar water and space heating capacity increased by an estimated 25 gigawatts-thermal (GWth), or about 16%.

In their new book, CLEAN ENERGY NATION Congressman Jerry McNerney, a renewable energy expert, and technology writer Martin Cheek assess the positive and negative aspects of various alternatives.

We have known, for quite some time, that the fossil fuels we use today are a finite source of energy; we only seem to disagree on when those sources will run dry. Alternative sources have been around for quite some time, including electric power and solar power, but none has yet supplanted dead dinosaurs. Presented here are some other fuels,some strange, some downright weird.

Marianne Lavelle For National Geographic News Published June 22, 2011 This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. One of Indonesia’s most ardent rain forest protection activists is in what may seem an unlikely position: Spearheading a project to produce biofuel from trees. But tropical forest scientist Willie Smits, …

HouseResourceOrg asked: The Grass is Greener: The Future of Biofuels – Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming – 2007-10-24 – Edward J. Markey, Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence held a hearing entitled “The Gas is Greener: The Future of Biofuels.” The Hearing took place on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 9:30 AM in 2175 Rayburn …

There’s a lot of energy that we can harness if we only attempt to research and develop the technologies needed to do so. We will escape from the fossil fuels and the old electrical grids by turning to alternate choices to these energy sources. One of those alternate energy resources is wind energy. Air turbines continue to be developed that …

There is a lot of energy that we can harness if we only attempt to research and develop the technologies wanted to do so. We will be able to run away from the traditional fuels and the old electric grids by turning to alternate choices to these sources of energy. One of those alternative energy resources is wind energy. Wind …

There’s a lot of energy that we are able to harness if we only try to research and develop the technologies wanted to do so. We will get away from the ordinary fuels and the old electric grids by turning to alternatives to these power sources. One of those alternative energy resources is wind power. Wind turbines remain developed that …

I am appalled at the state of the public discourse on oil and gasoline prices. Between the newspapers and the talking heads, there is an increasing cacophony that the government should do something, just about anything, to halt the increase in oil and gasoline prices. From the lefties:  Release stocks from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve!  Stop Big Oil from gouging …

T J Madigan asked: The history of hybrid cars is immersed in controversy. Not so much for the product itself, but for the technology it uses. Is it old like the conception of wheel itself, or is it a recent idea, as recent as the embryonic stem cell technology? First of all, a hybrid car is a vehicle that uses …

ethanol heater reviews One way to significantly lower your heating costs is to heat the room you are using rather than the complete house The best way to heat the or room you are using is by using a space heater Most space heaters draw power from electricity Electrical space heaters are very energy efficient Although using electric to heat …

Dan Lanpher asked: Now that the price of oil is unreasonably high, people are starting to really look into alternative fuels, myself included. Alternative methods of electricity generation such as wind, solar, tidal and wave energy are all well and good and can do a great job generating electricity for fixed resources. But what about a good mobile source of …

2 There are many core components in a pellet stove including the burn pot warmth exchanger and the feed auger and auger motor When consumers are choosing a pellet stove the auger as well as auger motor are a very over looked workings Though the power of the auger motor as well as drive system impact directly on how well …

There is quite a number of alternative energy resources that can be used in several ways to achieve the highest level of efficiency possible. Here are some of the options people rely on worldwide. From all the alternative energy resources, solar energy has the highest number of applications and enjoys the best popularity. It serves well for water heating, central …

Daniel Roshard asked In a world where people rely heavily on diesel-powered engines to perform many functions for both agriculture and other known industries it no longer comes as a surprise if there is a limited supply of derivatives of diesel fuels with traces of petroleum Besides the over exhaustion of reserves of petroleum fuels improbability in petroleum sources and …

cornmeal ethanol Allen Walker asked Making ethanol is something that has grown in popularity over the last few years If I were to guess it would be the record high oil prices doing the job but that’s just my opinion Much more of those high prices and there will be a number of people making ethanol in their own backyards …

LIMO Energy There are some cases or appointments of the average of the daily car will simply not cut Sometimes it is necessary to arrive in style to make amazing impression or it is simply to have a good time and make all trip remembered For these special cases there is nothing more perfect than a limousine Limousines often generate …

24 Matthew Keegan asked The growth of the ethanol industry has been a slow process one where the automakers are way ahead of the game building cars trucks vans and SUVs which can run on either straight gasoline or a mixture of gas and ethanol flex fuel vehicles FFV that now number in the millions Lagging far behind are the …