Portable Solar Energy Power Stations
Solar energy is a form of energy that is environment friendly, available aplenty and is harnessed both at home and in power grids and power stations. It is mainly because the stock of fossil fuels is dwindling day by day that more and more people are turning to alternative sources of energy for their fueling needs.
Many people have already started using solar energy to power their homes and offices with the use of solar cells and solar panels. However these sources of power are generally permanent and cannot be used in other places.
This is why people are considering the implementation of portable solar energy power stations that can be carried around to use solar energy if and when required.
There are many places where portable solar energy can be used like RVs for camping and boats for long fishing trips. Though this may seem like something for the future, today there actually are portable solar energy power stations. These portable solar energy stations generate energy from sunlight where the generators are usually small enough to be easily moved from place to place.
A new way to producing biofuels from algae
It is quite normal to find lots of pond scum at the bottom of ponds. This is a form of algae that is usually removed or let to waste at the bottom of the pond. However some researchers form Utah State University has today found a means of extracting the oil from algae, to be converted into biodiesel fuel.
The USU aims at producing an algae-biodiesel that is cost competitive by the year 2009.
The reason the USU got the idea of using algae to produce biodiesel is that it has the capacity of producing a maximum of 10,000 gallons of oil per acre of land. Moreover, algae or pond scum is grown practically everywhere.
With this discovery, it can be considered that it is the most important scientific challenge of the 21st century. Although there are many options to solve the world’s energy problem today, none of them can be considered to be viable for realistic use on a long term basis.
Basically, a biodiesel is a clean and carbon dioxide neutral fuel that is becoming more and more popular by the day. Today most of biodiesel is produced from soybean and corn oil however with the increase of supply and demand, the price of soybeans and corn also increases.
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