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Ghana Is A Winning Country In Renewable Energy

Ghana has won one of the worlds’ most prestigious international prize for green energy of this year’s Ashden Awards. Furthermore winners from Pakistan and India participated in the event VIP ceremony, presented by the British Minister for Change of Climate Greg Barker. The Ghana News Agency in Accra last Friday mentioned that the Prince of [...]

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Biodiesel: How Is It produced?

To be able to successfully produce biodiesel, transesterification is required. What, then, is this process called “Transesterification”? This is the method used for converting used oil into biodiesel with the use of methanol (a type of alcohol) reacting to triglyceride oils found in greases and fats, producing formation of fatty acid alkyl esters (biodiesel) and [...]

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The Peril of Digging too Deep – Fossil Fuel

In the search for energy, shattering accidents are pervading the energy industry as there is an increasing need to dig deeper to unearth fossil fuels and minerals. Recently, 33 Chilean miners were safely rescued after having been underground for a period of two months. However, in other parts of the world like in West Virginia, [...]

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New Energy Finance: Solar Energy Is Rivaling With Oil in Persian Gulf

In accordance to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, solar energy may turn out to be more lucrative that power plants fueled by oil in the Middle East. This implies that the governments should promote the use of sun power and save the petroleum for exports. Based on its analysis, the London-established company stated that it will [...]

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EPRI is Suggesting Solar-Augmented Power Plants – Hybrid Solar Power Plants

A Natural gas or solar-augment coal plant is being developed to Form a Solar thermal hybrid plant. Solar can be integrated with natural gas and coal to produce electricity. Recently, the Project Manager of Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Cara Libby spoke about the development of a solar thermal hybrid plant. Libby is in command [...]

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Are Consumers Willing to Pay for Renewable Energy?

In 2008, Micheal Polsky’s wind farm company experiences a flourishing year, and banks were willing to disburse millions of dollars for the company’s success. However, in 2010 (2 years later), green products seemed hard to sell. Moreover, Mr. Polsky’s secured a contract with Virginia’s utility company to sell power. Nevertheless, the state regulators have denied [...]

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Energy of the Future – Is Nuclear Really Cheaper Than Solar Energy?

A recent study suggests that the cost of conventional sources of energy such as fossil fuel is steadily going to rise. On the other hand, the cost of renewable energy is actually on the downward cost curve, and prices are expected to continue to fall. Utility scale electricity is already offering commercial-scale solar for below [...]

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The American Coal Addiction Can Cease: It Doesn’t Need a Herculean Effort To Happen

People consider coal to be an indispensable source of energy. The worse is that Americans are predicting coal to play a critical role in the future’s energy supply. The coal equation can easily be eliminated from our energy supply. However, there need to be a will to do so. Here is a brief overview how [...]

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Obama’s Introduction of Clean Energy Slower than Expected

Recently (15th of June) related to BP oil spill, Obama did not address the issue of American’s addition to fossil fuels he rather emphasised on political damage control. We can say that Obama’s mythology or rather misinformation about America becoming a clean energy nation via solar, biomass and wind energy might take more than decades [...]

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Oil Will Never Cease to Exists But Its Significance Will Fall

There are many debates on whether oil will be depleted in 50 or 150 years. However, some experts are predicting the contrary. They foretell that oil will last forever or at least for much longer than 150 to 200 years. The earth does today contain approximately 100 trillion gallons of crude oil. This is an [...]

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