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Lead Acid Battery Daimler Chrysler
1,481 wordsEnvironmental demand for cleaner air has put a heavy burden on the automobile, much improved by stringent exhaust stands but still a significant source of pollution. High cost, technological obstacles and the resistance of the public to abandon gasoline have deterred the discovery of new cleaner alternative fuels to help 5 the environment. Electric Vehicles are the cleanest burning of the alternative fuel vehicles now available. They are an efficient way to utilize fossil fuels (oil and natural ...
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Ground Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide
2,167 wordsAlternative Fuel Vehicles You Can Buy Today From the earliest days of the automotive industry alternative fuels have always competed with petroleum for powering vehicles. Nicholas Cugnot made the first self-powered road vehicle in 1769 with a steam engine, and the first gasoline automobile didn't appear until over 100 years later from Karl Benz. Through the late 19 th and early 20 th century steam and electric power remained strong contenders. The invention of the self-starter for gasoline engin...
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Ground Level Ozone Environmental Protection Agency
1,441 wordsAir pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, "The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car" (1 fact sheet OMS- 5). Most people probably aren't aware that they are polluting the environment. Maybe if everyone knew how serious this pollution problem is, they would find ways to reduce the pollution. Most pollution that is released by cars comes from the exhaust, ma...
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Climate Change And Global Warming Part 1
1,817 wordsClimate Change and Global Warming (1) The problem of Global warming is considered to be one of the most troubling issues of the contemporary era. It has been noticed that the average air temperature in different parts of the world is being on the constant rise, ever since the humanity's existence began to depend more and more on exploitation of fossil fuels. While in 1870 the carbon fuel emissions in the air were almost non-existent, in 2000 their amount has reached 6 billion tons. Many scientis...
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Alternative Vehicle Fuel Sources
1,633 wordsAlternative Vehicle Fuel Sources For last years there is a tendency to increasing the number of vehicles in the United States. According to National Household Travel Survey this number tripled from 1969 to 2001. The same tendency is noticed in other progressive countries. Almost all of them use hydrocarbon fuels. But the sources of hydrocarbon fuels will come to end; and, most of all, carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions causes global warming. Hydrocarbon fuels, such as coal and natural gas, are burn...
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Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide
1,968 wordsEnvironment as the Governments Top Priority There is a question frequently ask by many people: why is environment so important to peoples lives? It is a matter of fact that life-support systems health is told to be maintained by species which build up the whole atmosphere. It is necessary to admit that their survival is really interconnected and depends on each other. For example, different bacteria break down all organic materials and in such a way the soil is produced and then it nutrients the...
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Alternative Fuel Electric Vehicle
848 wordsA Formula One race car accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds. How could a car that goes 0 to 60 mph in 12 seconds ever be considered cool? The people at Engine Technology International must be impressed because theyve crowned the gas-electric hybrid powerplant from the Honda Insight as International Engine of the Year 2000. 1 The truth is, with a 95 -mpg potential and a 110 mph top speed, the Insight is turning everybody's head while at the same time giving environmentalists a beacon o...
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Alternative Fuels Fuel Efficiency
996 wordsPeople Concept Cars CONCEPT CARS People go to car shows to see the manufacturers futuristic concept cars and are always fascinated and amazed by the impressive engineering. Little do they realize, those concept cars of tomorrow are actually prototypes of what is to come. The car shows only intent is to showoff the engineers technical ideas, to get the populations reaction, and to test the functionality of their new creation. How will tomorrows mobile units look and perform? The late twenty-first...
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Environmental Protection Agency Ground Level Ozone
1,487 wordsDeath of a Planet Air pollution is a very big problem in the United States. A large part of air pollution comes from cars. The Environmental Protection Agency says, The most polluting activity an average person does everyday is drive their car (1 factsheet OMS- 5). Most people probably arent aware that they are polluting the environment. Maybe if everyone knew how serious this pollution problem is, they would find ways to reduce the pollution. Most pollution that is released by cars comes from t...
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Ground Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide
4,309 wordsAlternative Electric Vehicles Alternative Fuels Alternative Fuel Vehicles You Can Buy Today From the earliest days of the automotive industry alternative fuels have always competed with petroleum for powering vehicles. Nicholas Cugnot made the first self-powered road vehicle in 1769 with a steam engine, and the first gasoline automobile didnt appear until over 100 years later from Karl Benz. Through the late 19 th and early 20 th century steam and electric power remained strong contenders. The i...
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Ground Level Ozone Environmental Protection Agency
2,062 wordsEng 102 December 4, 2000 Pollution Since the beginning of the 20 th century, environmentalists have been warning the world about polluting the earth and its consequences. While many countries have seriously attempted to reduce their pollution emission, others instead seem to be more concern about economic growth and production output. Therefore, pollution has been increasing since then. However, pollution must be reduced, otherwise life on earth will soon extinguish. Air pollution is one of the ...
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