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Wind Energy - Using Wind to Generate Electricity

Wind is a clean and renewable energy source that can produce enough electricity to power millions of homes and businesses. In simple terms, wind is the movement of air created by the uneven heating of the surface of the earth by the sun. Today, wind energy is primarily used for the production of electricity.

28 May 2008

Geothermal Energy - Power Source that is Clean, Reliable and Homegrown

Geothermal energy radiates outwards from the core and heats the surrounding areas. The potential of geothermal energy in the uppermost 6 miles of the Earth's crust amounts to 50,000 times the energy of all oil and gas resources in the world.

19 Apr 2008

Alternative Vehicle Fuels – An Overview of Emerging Alternative Vehicle Fuels

Several promising alternative vehicle fuels offer benefits such as reduced emissions, increased energy security, and decreased reliance on foreign oil.

15 Apr 2008

Hydrogen Production - Using Light and Water to Produce Hydrogen

Hydrogen can be considered as a clean energy carrier similar to electricity. It could be produced from various domestic resources such as renewable energy and nuclear energy.

6 Apr 2008

Solar Cell Materials - An Overview of Solar Cell Materials

Photovoltaic cells, more commonly known as solar cells, are found in a variety of consumer and industrial applications such as calculators and satellites. Cells and devices that are photovoltaic convert light energy into electrical energy.

30 Mar 2008

Forecasting Future Energy Supply and Demand

How to best offset emissions to slow global warming is among the puzzles that face policymakers, scientists, engineers, and the commercial sector. In this article, an overview of the forecasting of future energy supply and demand is presented.

29 Mar 2008

Naturally Occurring Iron Important in Calculating Climate Change

Most oceanographers have assumed that, in the areas of the world's oceans known as High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, the iron needed to fertilize infrequent plankton blooms comes almost entirely from wind-blown dust.

29 Mar 2008

Nuclear Energy - An Introduction to Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy is the energy that comes from the core or the nucleus of an atom. The bonds which hold the atoms together contain a massive amount of energy. This energy must be released in order to make electricity. This energy can be freed in two ways: nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

25 Mar 2008

Elevated CO2 Impairs Key Component of Plant’s Defenses Against Leaf-Eating Insects

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate in a variety of settings. In line with this, there are studies to indicate that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 levels go up.

25 Mar 2008

Renewable Energy and Energy Security

Primary challenges in the energy sector are access to energy, access to an advanced and clean energy source to replace fossil fuels, and energy security.

20 Mar 2008