Biofuels have been around as long as cars have.

A biofuel is a fuel that contains energy from geologically recent carbon fixation. These fuels are produced from living organisms.

Generating Electricity from Wing Waves.

Wind turbines, like windmills, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy. At 100 feet (30 meters) or more aboveground, they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind.

Producing electricity from solar energy.

Solar energy is a free, inexhaustible resource, yet harnessing it is a relatively new idea. The ability to use solar power for heat was the first discovery.

Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades.

A blade acts much like an airplane wing. When the wind blows, a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind side of the blade.

Solar energy may have had great potential

Solar technology advanced to roughly its present design in 1908 when William J. Bailey of the Carnegie Steel Company invented a collector with an insulated box and copper coils.

We have been harnessing the wind's energy for hundreds of years.

For utility-scale sources of wind energy, a large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to form awind plant.

Biofuels are produced from living organisms.

In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials.

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth.

Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings.

A geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building.

In the future, civilization will be forced to research and develop alternative energy sources.

Possession of surplus energy is, of course, a requisite for any kind of civilization, for if man possesses merely the energy of his own muscles, he must expend all his strength - mental and physical - to obtain the bare necessities of life.

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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Renewable Energy Careers Increasing In Popularity

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Renewable Energy Careers Increasing In Popularity
Today with increased renewable energy prices and a declining environment everyone is looking for ways to be green.Scientists are researching for innovative methods to extract available natural energies.

As these renewable energy technologies are developed, there will be new jobs developed to build and maintain them. This includes scientists, ecologists, geologists and biologists, but also includes other professions such as architects, lawyers, doctors, construction workers, and workers in farms and factories.

It is important we all pull together to best serve mankind and make sure we have renewable sources for many years to come. Institutions of higher learning are providing educational programs focusing on ways to utilize natural power sources.

The program is about the creation of unique methods of harnessing these sources. A lot of 'green' businesses are now giving on the job instruction for people who work for them.

Right now, making new jobs is certainly good buy a lot of people think big businesses are going to lose money because natural power sources are free. People get excited.

The people that loose their jobs from outsourcing are definetly not so excited about it. If new energy sources become widely available, unemployment may rise.
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