Alternative Fuels: Cars Can Exhale Water.

There are many current technologies focusing on saving the fossil fuels used on cars. One is the commonly known “Hybrid Cars”. Hybrid cars are the current “star” for cars that save fossil fuels. They have an electric battery as well as a combustion engine. That way, you can use electricity from an outlet to charge your car, and while you are on the road, you can rely on electricity to power you until you run out, then you switch to gasoline. This way, you can completely not use fossil fuels such as gasoline for

There are several ways that oil ends up in the oceans.                                                     One way is through drilling accidents and another is through spillage

Fuel availability is an everyday thing. You just go to the service station down the road and fill up for a decent price. However to produce fuels it is a bit more complicated. Fuel is made by the fossil fuels that are deep in the ground formed thousands and thousands years ago. It was made by dead organism. However, fuel is reliable but it is running out fast, so we need another energy source for our everyday needs. Hydrogen powered cars are very environmentally friendly, they do not admit any sort of harmful fumes into the air. It produces steam instead of exhaust gases. The things that makes this car able to drive is a fuel cell. It converts the hydrogen into electricity producing heat and water as by products. We collect Hydrogen from water,

“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.” (Edward Abbey.) Gasoline fuels our active lifestyles. Bringing us where we need to be fast. Gasoline is invaluable to our conduct. There are many things that make gasoline as it is; its elements, how it went through the thresholds, the companies that make it, history of Shell (a leading gas company), how it was realized for its potential, the uses for it, how it is made, where it is made, how it was discovered, how do different cultures use gasoline, and what makes gasoline beneficial to the world.

One of the major factors of fossil fuels are vehicles. Vehicles emit harmful gases into the air such as particulate matter, hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide. Emissions from vehicles are dangerous to the elderly, people who have asthma, small children such as infants, and anyone who may have a different disease such as cancer. When these aforementioned subjects breathe in the emissions from vehicles it may cause health problems, or even worse- death. In order to minimize the health risks and problems, individuals can conserve energy and minimize the miles by doing tasks such as carpooling or walking (Nutrient Pollution).

To understand the impact oil has on the environment, we first have to understand oil itself. Oil is found on reserves all around the world. The top 10 oil reserve countries in the world are: Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Russia, Libya, and Nigeria (Top 10 Oil Reserves Countries). These ten countries account for 85.3% of all the world’s oil (Top 10 Oil Reserves Countries). In order to reach the oil that is stored in the ground, there is a system called fracking. Fracking is when drillers push water into the

Oil spills are harming our drinking water supply and marine biodiversity. Often a spill can kill or injure from few up to hundreds even thousands of birds and mammals. In order to solve our pollution problem we must first understand it. Oil sticks to everything and that is a crucial problem when it comes to soil. When oil is dumped on land it can eventually get into the water supply by means of underground streams, ground water, etc. Most of the time oil spills are accidental. The oil spills I want to mention are the spills that get into rivers, bays, and oceans. Habitually oil gets spilled while it is transported to United States of America. A quantity of the causes of the oil spills are human beings’ mistakes, equipment problems, natural disasters, and intentional spills. Intentional spills are frequently spilled by vandals, illegal dumpers, terrorists, and countries at war. Oil is lighter than water and because of this exact reason it usually floats on water, both marine and freshwater. Oil more often than not spreads out quickly across the water surface and forms a thin layer, which is called an oil slick. With time the layer becomes thinner and thinner, finally becoming a very thin layer called sheen. The sheen layer is a layer that looks like a rainbow.

“In United States around half of million deaths each year are attributed to air pollution. It is estimated that air pollution each day kills three people in the city of Hong Kong. Air pollution also contributes to soil and water pollution. More than 15,000 people in the world die each day because of water pollution” (pollutionfacts.com). With these statistics, it is no wonder people are coming up with alternative energy sources. From energy to gasoline, there are many different ways to reduce these statistics. Some alternatives to energy sources are solar and wind power, alternative vehicle fuels and hybrid cars.

Fuel economy of engines is greatly improved from the past and probably continued to be improved, increased in number of automobiles alone dictate that there will be a great demand for fuel in the near future. Alternative fuel technology, availability, and use must and will become more common in the coming decades. However, the use of an alternative fuel decreases the break thermal efficiency of engines, due to lower calorific values compared to normal petrol fuel. Also due to the high cost of petroleum products, some countries are developing and trying to use alternative fuels for vehicles.

Transportation of ships and tankers. The oil pollution may also come from the operational discharges from ships, oil spill that caused by accidents such as the collision of oil tankers or hit the reef, and operating sewage, ship repair sewage and ballast water sewage (Li, Wang & Ha, 2014).

All of these sources comeback to causing health problems in humans, harming the marine life and our oceans and seas. Other big factors of marine pollution are oil, such as off land, sea transportation, and the big oil industries. Marine transportation can cause up to 45% of the oils going into the oceans and 32% come from the big oil industries. Activities at sea causing pollution come from sea transportation, marine resource exploitation as in the removal of marine living resources and overfishing.

Marine oil pollution, caused by discharges from ships, and leakages from oil platforms and oil-tanker accidents, is a major threat to fragile marine and coastal ecosystems and it is a subject of increasing public concern.

Fossil fuels are created from the natural plants and animals decomposed millions of years ago deep into the ground. But because of the length of time it takes to create fossil fuels naturally, it is a non renewable resource. As we use this fuel to drive our car, we also use these fossil fuels to heat our homes and even being used to make our plastics items. We cannot live without these fossil fuels, but at the rate we use it today, we do not have much of a choice. “The most obvious environmental impact from the oil and gas industry is the burning of oil, which releases several smog- causing pollutants and greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.” Subsequently, the process used to drill the oil and gas from the ground is hazardous to the ecosystem as oil spills are common and happen far too frequently. An example of the an oil spill harming our ecosystem is back in April of 2010 when a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank leaving the well surging with oil into the gulf. 87 days later by the time the well was capped, an estimated 3.9 million barrels had already leaked into the gulf, and harming the ecosystem. “There were some immediate impacts to the animals of the Gulf of Mexico that could be seen with the naked eye: pelicans black with oil, fish belly-up in brown sludge, smothered turtles washed up on beaches.” Even some animal had been change forever because of the spill. “There were some reports of deformed wildlife after the spill. For years

Petrol/Gasoline: It is mainly a clear fuel that is sourced from crude petroleum which is mainly used as fuel in internal combustion engines. It primarily consists of organic compounds obtained by fractional

Knowing this limit, different countries/jurisdictions all over the world have invested in alternative fuel vehicles. As defined by the US Department of Energy, an alternative fuel vehicle is “a dedicated, flexible fuel, or dual-fuel vehicle designed to operate on at least one alternative fuel” [8]. Biodiesel, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, or propane are considered as alternative fuels in this definition [8].