I recently read the book Ishmael, which is kind of
a philosophical book about how humans are impacting the environment and the environment
laws they are breaking and what how our society came to be like our society. I
am also enrolled in AP environmental science, so need I even say, the
environment and ways to conserve energy and new resources have been on my mind
a lot lately. I was searching the internet and found an website that contained
a lot of information on alternative fuel sources and decided that I would write
a blog post about some of the new knowledge I have acquired from my class and
the website.
Right now most people are looking towards improving on
the cars and trucks that we have like making a longer lasting hybrid, or
electric car and some people are even going to CNG or LNG trucks and cars but
with the price of getting a CNG or LNG car you're not saving that much on just
buying a normal car. The US Consumes about 6.87 billion barrels of oil per year
and around 18.83 million barrels per day.
Types of alternative
energy being produced are CNG- Compressed Natural Gas, LNG- Liquid Natural Gas,
Wind- Windmills, Solar- Sun, Wave- Using the waves to move turbines, Water-
Using dams to generate power, Biomass- Burning for energy, Geothermal- Pumping
water up from the ground, Nuclear Power- Using sustained nuclear fusion to
create power and heat.
CNG and LNG, Natural Gas is a fossil fuel that is mostly contained of methane, it is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels you can use it in either compressed form or liquefied form advantages to this is 60-90% less smog producing pollutants, 30-40% less greenhouse gas emissions and its less expensive than gasoline. disadvantages- fewer miles on one tank, limited car type and not really available in most places in the US. (319)
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