Lotus Car Rental Alternative Fuel Proposal Joshua Maldonado and John Elias COMM/215 September 3, 2013 Vincent Palmieri Lotus Car Rental Alternative Fuel Proposal Combustion engine vehicles have come a long way, especially since conventional vehicles are reaching upwards of 30 miles per gallon. Conventional vehicles have only grown more reliable over the past few decades, and continue to improve with each passing year. Due to these advancements, many would agree that there is no reason to
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largest single market in the world. Some energy companies trade in fossil fuels (coal,gas and petroleum) while others supply electricity or fuel to end users.Many of the products derived from petroleum, like plastic, chemicals and fertilizers are essential components or ingredients for industry. As petroleum reserves become scarcer this drives up oil prices and encourages companies and governments to develop alternative or renewable energies .Increasing energy consumption is creating pollution
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Are You Ready to Live Without Nonrenewable Energy Sources Chinita Johnson COM/220 Marla Muse December 12, 2012 Are You Ready to Live Without Nonrenewable Energy Sources What will you do when your lights go out because there are no more fossil fuels to fuel the electricity needs of our nation? As many of us have dealt with power outages for one reason or another, they were usually for a very short period of time that may have seemed like forever. For
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able to live sustainable and self sufficiently. I will take into consideration all of the fundamental aspects: food, water, energy, sewage, solid waste, and transportation. To design a sustainable community, one must use green alternative methods and use renewable sources. Sustainability should be a process of planned change and learning. To have a sustainable community, there must be sustainable relationships between people; also people need a relationship with the environment. Societies through
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Solar Energy as an Alternative to Fossil Fuels Classical Argument Position Paper Nick Gross Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Author Note This paper was prepared for English 123 taught by Professor Cameron. Solar Energy as an Alternative to Fossil Fuels Classical Argument Position Paper The climate of the Earth is changing. In the last 100 years, the average temperature has risen 1.5°F (Kalogirou, 2003, para. 2.3). That may not sound like much, but even a small change in temperature can have
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Geothermal Energy a Better Alternative than Coal Power For many years, people have been developing technologies that can improve the quality of life; help save human labor, provide entertainment and make life more comfortable. This technology has led us to depend on different energy-consuming machines like computers, electric motors, televisions, cars, motorcycles etc. because this technology needs energy to function, energy supply is very essential to sustain for the energy-consuming machines
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using these resources at an unsustainable rate. Many resources are at risk of becoming depleted, which can be understood in a term of resource depletion. ‘Therefore, resource depletion refers to the condition when all natural resources such as fossil fuels, groundwater, forests, minerals, cropland soils, marine fisheries, and other natural resources available, have been exhausted within a region.’(Magdoff, 2013) The issue is followed up by the problems of imbalance in nature, shortage of materials, struggle
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use of fossil fuels, especially coal is destroying the environment because it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the extraction of these fossil fuels has a devastating effect on the environment. (Turk & Bensel, 2011) B. Explanation Fossil fuels are nonrenewable because once they are extracted from the earth and burned or used, they can never be replenished in over a thousand years. (Turk & Bensel, 2011) C. Further Explanation The use of fossil fuels releases carbon
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This planets dependence on oil is ridiculous, I often think what ever would we do if we ran out of oil deposits in the world where would we get our energy, or fuel for our vehicles amongst other things that oil is responsible for making. One alternative to using crude oil is the invention of electric cars or hybrids as we see on the road everyday most common is the Toyota Prius. It was best explained that "the plug-in hybrid still faces the same battery issues that have plagued electric car development
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