My Home-Made Biomass Gasifier Making your own gasifier is easy I've built a lot of alternative energy projects over the years. See my home-built solar panel and wind turbine pages. I've always wanted to build a wood or biomass gasifier too. Why? Well, the internal combustion engine is really an important part of our society and the basis of a lot of our transportation and portable power technology. It isn't going to be going away any time soon. I've mastered making my own electricity from the
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The main purpose of this article is to show that Anadarko Petroleum, the part-owner of the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay BP Four Billion Dollars in order to mend all claims from last year’s oil spill. This means that Anadarko is dropping its allegations of gross negligence against BP and giving up twenty five percent interest in the sit (Stothard 2011). The article also shows a few other companies tha tare settling disputes over the oil spill that occurred last April, but its
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fuels and explain why there are attractive sources of energy. Fossil fuels are also natural resources of energy that is a product of millions of years of decomposed plant and animal pressured by heat trapped underground. Natural gas, coal, and petroleum, are all examples of fossil fuels that are highly attractive due to the purpose that they serve in one way or another in how we function in the world. Natural gas is pressured decomposed sea animals
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• The development of a cheap source of energy that was virtually unlimited, yet small enough to fit in a pocket We already have the beginnings of this technology in our world today. A battery the size of a cellphone battery but the thickness of a Styrofoam plate has been developed by an inventor here in the US recently. If coupled with some form of pocket clip solar collector it would be limited to voltage and wattage for small electronics only but virtually unlimited as far as replenishable usable
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Frozen Methane The world dependency for fossil fuels has been taken for granted for many years. The need for this type of fuel is growing more each day, with the need to manufacture so many things the world depends on from this type of fossil fuel that the world has been using for years. The need and the supply has caused so many confrontational issues around the world for many years and will continue causing issues for the giant powerhouses that depend on this fossil fuel for survival and power
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source of emissions of carbon dioxide which is one of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Biofuels are transportation fuels like ethanol and biodiesel that are made from biomass materials. The fuels are usually blended with petroleum fuels, but can also be used alone. Using ethanol or biodiesel means we don’t burn quite as much fossil fuel. Biofuels are usually more expensive, but they are cleaner burning fuels that produce few air pollutants. Ethanol is an alcohol
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pollutants and exhaust emissions. Another interesting fact I found about these fuels in particular is that they can rather be domestically produced and can be derived from renewable resource but the fossil fuels which are being used today such as petroleum and diesel cannot be derived from renewable source. Once these fossil fuels will be extinct alternative fuels are the one which will come to use. I personally think that if even a small majority of the people in the world start using alternative
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Harvard Business Review July-August 1960 • Shortsighted managements often fail to recognize that in fact there is no such thing as a growth industry. MARKETING MYOPIA By Theodore Levitt Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very mueh in the shadow of decline. Others whieh are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because
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(www.thepeoplehistory.com) (www.historyorb.com) My Birth Month-April 1980 Heather Powell Everest Online CGS 2167-79 My Birth Month-April 1980 Looking at a few average costs in April of 1980 was a shock. The average income was $19,500 with the cost of a house $68,700. The average rent ran about $300, with a new car being around $7,200 and a gallon of gas about $1.19. Looking at political history for April 1980, while Jimmie Carter was president he created the “Crude oil Windfall
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even more deprived from food. Bio-fuels help decrease the amount of carbon in our atmosphere, but do bio-fuel help in other areas beside the environment. Bio-fuels mainly use corn and other agriculture to make ethanol, an alternative to the petroleum-based fuel. What some say is happening is the amount of corn and other agriculture stockpiles are decreasing and causing the price of bio-fuel based agriculture to go up. There have been controversies about the issue with alternative fuels, mainly
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