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667 wordsCompressed Natural Gas or CNG is becoming and increasingly attractive fuel for many transportation uses. One reason for the increase in interest in CNG is that the emissions of a CNG vehicle are far less than that of a gas powered engine. Other factors that make the production of CNG vehicles is that the gas prices have risen in the past couple years. Natural gas is, well, natural gas -- the same stuff that heats your stove or your house. It is largely produced domestically in the United States;...
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Oil Companies Crude Oil
900 wordsWhy are we paying so much for gasoline? If you havent noticed you must not drive, but there has been a drastic increase in gas prices in the past year and a half. It seemed like just the other day when I was at the gas station and I said Can I get 20 dollars on pump 3 please? and that would guarantee a full tank of gas. But those were the good old days when gasoline was a low, low, low price of. 99 cents per gallon. 20 dollars has my gauge reaching for the halfway mark on the gas meter. Nowadays...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Renewable Energy Sources
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Lead Acid Battery Electric Vehicles
1,670 wordsThe technology of electric vehicles has been around since the turn of the nineteenth century but faded as the gasoline powered engine took the spotlight. Now the future of electric vehicles is very bright. Their impacts are very significant ranging from economic, to new technology that can be applied elsewhere, to most importantly, the environment. Ford and GM, through its Saturn plant, have already begun production on their own version of the electric vehicle and have made them available to the...
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Strategic Bombing During World War 2
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Diesel Engines High Pressure
1,702 wordsEarly work Rudolf web a German engineer, conceived the idea for the engine that now bears his name after seeking a device to increase the efficiency of the Otto engine. Diesel realized that the electric ignition process of the gasoline engine could be eliminated if, during the compression stroke of a piston-cylinder device, compression could heat air to a temperature higher than the auto-ignition temperature of a given fuel. Diesel proposed such a cycle in his patents of 1892 and 1893. Originall...
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Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf
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Natural Resources Raw Materials
1,328 wordsThe Analysis of the Blue Marble Throughout history, there has been tremendous progress made on the part of mankind. We, as a species, have been able to tame fire, learn to hunt, survive in extreme conditions, and use our resources to their fullest potential. But do we overuse our resources? I strongly believe that we, as a population, do overuse our resources. This is an issue, which we must now face as we head into the next millenium, for it is there, which we will find the answer to the future...
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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
687 wordsHow Can We Protect Environment Nowadays protection of the environment is very crucial, as the world is moving into a new era without considering any of the major problems of pollution with rapid industrialization. The best way to protect the environment is conservation. Conservation is the philosophy and policy of managing the environment to assure adequate supplies of natural resources for future as well as present generations. The primary conservation concern here is with fossil fuels. Solutio...
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Environmental Protection Agency Source Of Power
2,755 words... also positive effects to oil spills. When there is a spill workers are needed to help with the clean up effort. This in turn provides jobs for people. Due to the amount of people needed to clean up the spill, the surrounding community can bring in money from local hotels and restaurants. The workers that come into the area with utilize these facilities. A negative effect of an oil spill is the watermen's loss of employment. With an oil spill closing down the waterways and boat ramps they los...
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Sources Of Energy Carbon Dioxide
1,346 wordsHow Can We Protect Environment Nowadays protection of the environment is very crucial, as the world is moving into a new era without considering any of the major problems of pollution with rapid industrialization. The best way to protect the environment is conservation. Conservation is the philosophy and policy of managing the environment to assure adequate supplies of natural resources for future as well as present generations. The primary conservation concern here is with fossil fuels. Solutio...
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One Of The First Electric Vehicles
2,512 wordsHybrid-Electric Vehicle Through the early period of the automotive industry until about 1920, electric automobiles were competitive with petroleum-fueled cars particularly as luxury cars for urban use and as trucks for deliveries at closely related points, for which the relatively low speed and limited range, until battery recharge, were not detrimental. Electrics, many of which were steered with a tiller rather than a wheel, were especially popular for their quietness and low maintenance costs....
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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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Concept Cars Gasoline Powered
769 wordsTo Concept Cars Concept Cars To be known in the future you have to think ahead into the future. This is why concept cars have become so popular in the past couple of decades. Not many people succeed in making a successful concept car; which are also known as a prototype. It is a very hard and stressful project that takes a lot of patience. Robert J. Waddell, president of Motor Concept Vehicles of Mississauga, Ontario, took over 6 years and spent over 225 thousand dollars in building his concept ...
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Congressional Quarterly Crude Oil
3,168 wordsEnergy And Commerce Committee: Lighting The Way Energy And Commerce Committee: Lighting The Way Of The Future America beings her trek into the 21 st Century with a very rocky start, for the prices of gasoline and crude oil are continually increasing, the stock market perpetually slowing down, a shortage of power supply for the entire state of California and several other states nation wide, plus the threat of a recession lurking around the corner; these are among the many obstacles that are bloc...
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Four Stroke Engine Piston Moves Gasoline
302 wordsThe four stroke engine is divided into three basic parts the intake stroke, compression stroke, combustion stroke and the exhaust stroke which all lead to the ability of the engine to get the car into motion and allow humans the ability to drive automobiles. The factors, which affect the automobiles ability to move fluently, are the concentrations, temperature, surface area and a catalyst, which are all present in order to have a smoothly running car. Cars are used everyday by billions of people...
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Frequently Asked Questions United States Of America
3,462 wordsThe worst imaginable environmental catastrophe that could occur in Maryland has just become a reality. The lifeblood of Southern Maryland's Watermen has been forever affected. The ecosystems of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay have been irreversibly contaminated. The Three Mile Island and Chernobyl Nuclear Accidents have affected the world ecosystems; but the Chalk Point oil spill has reached us here in Southern Maryland. The ethical considerations with generating electricity from fossil fu...
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H 2 O Potassium Hydroxide
930 wordsImagine filling your tank with a garden hose, driving 5000 kilometers, and then stopping for a drink out of your tailpipe! This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future. But how is this possible? With a device called a fuel cell. These cells run primarily off of water, but can run from many different fluids including methanol, gasoline, and devel in a pinch. How do these fuel cells work, and what impact will they have on the future? In this century we have seen huge technological breakthroughs, thin...
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One By One James Bond
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Plants And Animals Millions Of Years
1,653 wordsWhat is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear petroleum? Its probably a big factory or cars or maybe a type of fuel. But petroleum is not only a source of energy but also many products we find in the store. Things from drip- dry fabrics to engine greases to cosmetics. There are thousands of different products from petroleum, but the main use of petroleum is fuel. Petroleum is the most valuable natural resource in the world. I support this opinion with facts such as fuels made fro...
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