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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Sunday, 22 January 2012

Seia Reviewing Draft Regulations Aimed At Expanding Solar

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Seia Reviewing Draft Regulations Aimed At Expanding Solar

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"SEIA applauds the Obama Administration's continued pains to foster the use of solar energy in America as rip of its harden mix up initiatives. One new fees would clarify how permission precincts investment trusts (REITs) reveal itself to renewable energy installations, by solar burial. SEIA appreciates the Administration's pen of solar burial in REITs, and looks convey to recital with the Pasty Comply with and Funds Sector to find bright, new ways that option call the U.S. solar industry to use REITs to facilitate the President's harden goals."

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Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Plenty Of Positive News To Ponder

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Plenty Of Positive News To Ponder
"From an editorial in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune:"

Summer's done? Already?

Despite its late date, Labor Day weekend kind of snuck up on the Wisconsin Rapids area this year. One reason: Cooler weather often made the warmest of seasons tough to recognize.

Still, with one last long holiday weekend and the unofficial end of summer to enjoy, it's hard to complain -- especially with the kickoff of local high school sports and the start of the college and professional football season.

Here are few more reasons to be thankful while relaxing, or contemplating all the yard work that needs to be done.

Seen what Mid-State Technical College has been doing lately? The school based in Grand Rapids is working to expand its five renewable energy programs.

This will be an important field in the coming years, as government and businesses work to "go green" for economic and environmental reasons.

Employers will need qualified workers in these burgeoning sectors, and it's encouraging to see a local institution like Mid-State leading the way.

The college has been working with Energy Composites Corp. on a training program for future employees of the company, which plans to add at least 400 jobs to Wisconsin Rapids with a wind energy component plant.

In addition to Mid-State's renewable thermal energy, renewable electricity and bio-refinery technology programs that began a year ago, the school's renewable energy specialist and energy conservation specialist programs started up this week.

U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wausau, was in town Monday to check up on the programs for which he helped secure 428,000 in President Barack Obama's 2009-10 budget.

The future looks bright if Wisconsin Rapids can build upon the solid base educational institutions like Mid-State and companies like Energy Composites are building....

Credit: renewable-sources.blogspot.com
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