12 Alternative, Alternate Fuel Sources to Oil
- Posted by Bill Belew in Alternative fuels
Jul 7,2009
Stop the dependence on oil is the rallying cry. Are there alternative, alternate fuel sources to oil?
There are. Here are 12 of them …
- Wind power – is a converted form of solar energy. The atmosphere warms differently. Hot air rises, reducing the atmospheric pressure at the earth’s surface, and cooler air is drawn in to replace it. The result is wind.
- Solar power – concentrating solar power systems, passive solar heating and daylighting, photovoltaic systems, solar hot water, and solar process heat and space heating and cooling.
- Tidal power – Energy produced by tidal waves
- Geothermal power – heat from the Earth
- Hydropower – dams – the only one competitive enough to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
- Biomass – made from any organic material from plants or animals.
- Ethanol fuel – primary feedstock of ethanol is corn.
- Hydrogen – the simplest element and most plentiful gas in the universe.
- Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) – the cleanest and greenest and only carbon negative energy fuel
- Bio Fuel – made by a simple chemical reaction that removes the glycerin molecule from vegetable oils, fats, and cooking greases.
- Nuclear – accounts for about 19 percent of the total electricity generated in the United States
- Coal – More than half of the electricity generated in the world is by using coal as the primary fuel.
What am I missing? Why do you think it belongs on the list?
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4 Responses to “12 Alternative, Alternate Fuel Sources to Oil”
Instead of using chemicals to convert oil to biodiesel you can convert vehicles to run on the straight oil – used oil is most environmentally friendly as it is a waste product, although admittedly if everyone did it we would run out. The problem at the moment is that not enough people are doing this and so a valuable waste product is not being used in the most efficient way. Deutz and Fendt now produce tractors that come from the factory with dual fuel systems http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/03/26/109897/running-tractors-on-veg-oil-gets-nearer.html
This person is going to be using a sun oven every day for a year.
http://solarovenchef.blogspot.com/
Corn is not the primary feedstock for ethanol, sugarcane is. Until they get the cellulosic processes going that is.
How do you work out that CNG is carbon neutral?
Uranium is a finite resource – just like fossil fuels. If you go nuclear you will be digging the same hole as we did with fossil fuels.
The only real alternative is renewable and it’s not a matter of if we can afford it – it’s a matter of if we can afford not to!
With the price of gas going up, greenhouse gases, and global warming creating a change in the climate of the world, a water powered car is considered a long-awaited answer to the rising cost of living and the pace of environmental degradation. This idea has grown to almost mythological proportions. Is it real? Is it even feasible? Unfortunately, 100% water trucks or vehicles are still in the experimental stage.
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