Posts tagged: fossil fuel

Benefits of Green Solar Energy

To truly understand the benefits of green solar energy, you must first understand how solar energy is harnessed.  There are two types of green solar energy-thermal and light.  Thermal energy is considered passive solar.  This type of green solar energy is harnessed through the design and materials used to construct a building.  By integrating south [...]

What Are Green Energy Sources

Many homeowners today are looking into integrating green energy sources for developing more energy efficient homes and businesses.  A green energy source is power generated through renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and water.  The other benefit of green energy sources is their low contribution to global warming, pollution and other environmental issues. The [...]

Is Renewable Energy Technology Really Available To Homeowners

With the rising energy costs and effects of global warming so prevalent today, many people are wondering if there is truth to the concept of renewable energy technology.  There also appears to be confusion between alternative energy technology and renewable energy technology.  Alternative energy encompasses all renewable energy sources, but includes things like nuclear power [...]

It Is Time To Utilize Renewable Solar Energy

The sun is the life giving force of our existence.  Solar energy, the light and heat radiated by the sun, is what feeds us, clothes us and provides means for our shelter.  However, renewable solar energy can provide us with much more.  Using renewable solar energy can provide both economic and environmental benefits as well. [...]

Making electricity

How is electricity produced conventionally? Conventionally, electricity is produced by moving colossal turbines. These turbines are moved with the help of various types of energy. Let’s look at the most conventional ways of producing electrical energy: • By using various fuels and water – Water is heated on a large-scale in furnaces. The vapor generated [...]

The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling (Paperback)

Review “An excellent guide for embracing ecologically-friendly living.” — The Bookwatch, February 2003 Passive solar heating and passive cooling?approaches known as natural conditioning?provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders [...]

How electricity is produced

Electrical energy was one of man’s greatest discoveries. It has helped build new civilizations. The large amount of electricity produced has its source in fossil fuels, nuclear fission, water, and wind. This article will explore the different methods of electricity production. Electricity is churned out by enormous turbines. These turbines need a support to be [...]

Bio fuels – Are they good?

As the term suggests, bio-fuels are fuels that are formed when biological matter decomposes. The bio-fuels are mostly derived from plants. Bio-fuels exist in all the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Difference between bio-fuels and fossil fuels Bio-fuels are different from fossil fuels in the following ways: • Fossil fuels take a [...]

Homemade solar panel

The present economic scenario and the ever-shrinking state of the global oil reserves is not good news for everyone. But on a positive note it makes us investigate for alternative energy sources that is become the solution of cutting down present and the future energy consumption, particularly in terms of fossil fuel usage like oil. [...]