With the increasing costs, both financial and ecological, of fossil fuels, fuel efficiency in

Our group is planning to incorporate many different innovative energy, park, and transportation solutions into our city. One of these solutions is the Hyperloop, which currently is an experimental travel solution that costs four billion dollars less than the proposed California high-speed electric train plan (10 billion vs. 6 billion). It is also extremely fast, expected to be able to get someone from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in 30 minutes. It also is powered by solar panels and when there is a lot of daylight it will make more electricity than it uses. Our second innovative solution is that we want to have solar panel roads. These two will add up to be a big source of electricity in the city.

I personally have seen house with solar panels and also you see them on calculators. They may be expensive but I believe they are worth it for the environment. In fact according to Eric McLamb, “Solar energy is having the most immediate impact on home energy needs, and is expected to provide the energy needs for one billion people by the middle of this century”. Which can in the nearer future increase the way people get they’re energy thus decrease the consumption of oil. According to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, “Solar power could provide energy for more than one billion people by 2020 and 26 percent of global energy needs by

In Sparrow Woods, we want to cut down our carbon footprint, through harnessing the Sun’s energy in a clean renewable and sustainable way to use it for energy through solar photovoltaic systems.They are economically cheap, since provide a cheaper electricity bill, but it also increase the value of your house up to $6000. Solar panels are not restricted to roofs, they can be put on outdoor carports and solar roadways. They can be built either over top the vehicles, which would not only protect the cars from damage but also collect solar energy while the cars are parked there all day. Solar roadways perform the same task and they can be used for almost any surface. The excess energy is stored into a virtual grid which stores it and when it needs to be used then it can be extracted from

We all have heard about how one day, we will run out of oil, And you wonder "what are we going to do after we run out? Aren't we screwed?" I'm sure we've also heard, believe it or not, if you will, that oil and fossil fuels cause climate change and that's not a great thing. Well we dont have to worry about running out of oil or climate change by making one decision. We need to switch to renewable energy sources. Renewable energy sources are sources of power that will never run out. A energy source that im going to be discussing today is solar energy. Solar energy has a lot of benefits not only to our society, but to our economy, and to out planets. while S.N. does have many pros, it also has its cons. But of course, I'll be telling you about its many benefits to us first.

In the beginning Scott and Julie Brusaw became open on the subject for creating solar-powered LED roadways, they have encountered an endless amount of doubt and even outright aggression. The reaction was obviously expected given how new this sort of technology is. Not only is it new, but it would quite difficult to execute the dream of electrifying roads and highways with reinforced solar panels. Some questioned question if whether or not solar roadways are even necessary. However, the most important company that governs American roads -- was willing to at least give the idea a shot. Although the idea of solar roadways does sound amazing has many obvious potholes, but its

According Volvo, These panels would reduce the weight of the car upto fifteen percent! Car manufacturers in Europe are competing with each other to develop body panels that would be able to store energy and at the same time charge faster than normal batteries used in cars these days. These body panels are made up of Carbon resin and Polymer fiber (Refer the diagram for more information, Source: http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/motoring/storing-energy-as-you-go-26691481.html) .

Nowadays, environmental and health scientists are concerned largely because of the damages caused by conventional energy. In most cases, these damages are happening because people are more likely to use fossil energy instead of renewable energy. In 1991, the worst disaster happened in the Arabian Gulf, and it was closed to my hometown. It was an oil spill into the gulf sea. It’s estimated more than 250,000 seabirds died by oil spill (Laura Moss, 2010). As well as this, more than 85% of the consumed around the world comes from fossil fuel. Unlike renewable energy, fossil energy notably pollutes our plant. Additionally, conventional energy leads to global warming. However, solar and wind power is the best choice for many scientists to preserve the environment. In the past, renewable power had some difficulties because most of the energy had obtained from hydroelectric levees, whereas now solar and wind power can produce more than a quarter of the globe’s energy (reading 1). Due to population and other reasons, renewable energy has become more popular and getting attention from a lot of people (reading1). Ultimately, there are some differences and similarities between solar and wind power in terms of their amount of energy and advantages, and these sources have a fundamental way to store their energy, which is through an advanced battery.

The contents of this report outline the final results gained from the production of a solar car prototype after using the engineering design process efficiently. The report contains the

One of the most innovative and interesting ideas in renewable energy to hit the streets in recent years, happens to actually be the streets! I’m talking about roadways with integrated photovoltaic panels that generate electricity! The basic concept of this technology is actually quite interesting. With over 2.5 million miles of paved roadway throughout the United States alone, even covering a fraction of those roadway surfaces with solar panels could generate enormous amounts of clean energy.

At the turn of the nineteenth century electric cars made up nearly a third of the cars in the United States, while today they don’t even make up one percent as stated by Cadie Thompson. Electric cars were hailed for their ease of operation, lack of smell, as well as their easiness to operate. Although there were many upsides electric car production peaked in 1912. By this time Henry Ford’s mass production and assembly lines made internal combustion vehicles, both cheaper and more popular making electric cars somewhat obsolete. One of the main limitations of electric cars is the battery technology, which is used to power the electric cars. In the 1990s GM attempted to create an electric car called the EV-1, it used primitive cheap lead-acid batteries. A limitation of this vehicle was the range it was between 55 and 95 miles which is nothing compared to an average of around 300 for a combustion powered vehicle. With the rise of rechargeable batteries in devices like laptops, phones, and even power tools battery technology has made leaps and bounds. The batteries used in these devices are light, but powerful and are perfect for electric cars. These lithium-ion batteries aren’t perfect however, they are extremely expensive, which limits the market for electric vehicles. As Kevin Bullis said “To cut costs, the lithium-ion-powered electric cars made today by companies such as Nissan and GM use small battery packs with a range if less than 100 miles.” (Bullis). One thing that’s extremely

“There is considerable interest in electric and hybrid cars because of environmental and climate change concerns, tougher fuel efficiency standards, and increasing dependence on imported oil” (Deal). Hybrid and electric cars are a way to reduce our carbon footprint. Many vehicle manufacturers are beginning to jump into the hybrid car craze. Some of the most popular hybrid cars are the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight and Ford Fusion. There is also the electric car that relies solely on electricity to get from point A to point B. the downside to these cars however is that they only get about 100 miles before needing to be recharged. Hybrids are different because they rely on a mixture of two sources, electricity and gasoline. Hybrids can get further than electric cars because of this reason. Electric and hybrid cars have a special braking system called regenerative braking. Regenerative braking causes the car to recharge the battery whenever the car is coasting or completely stopped. this helps maintain the car’s battery life. Charging these batteries can take a while, some even take more than eight hours!

Two highly competing possible replacement are solar energy for consumer household use Red (2012) and hydrogen fuel cells for automotive applications Efficient Mileage (2009). These two are held high due to the fact of its energy input vs output and its effect on the environment. Both offer several different methods of energy farming and as well as performance its usage.

Significant energy demands related to population growth together with environmental concerns about the effects of fossil fuel usage (e.g., global warming) resulting in more stringent legislation for engine pollutant emissions have been attracting new interest in renewable, sustainable and environmentally friendly energy resources. Many ways have been applied or employed to reduce emissions levels as well as improve engine efficiency. Some fuels additive are being investigated and they have potential of emissions limited to, keeping the extra cost to the minimum as can possible. Alcohol biofuel such as ethanol, butanol are extensively investigated and commercially used. The experimental results revealed that significantly

Abstract— In earth nowadays, the naturally formed fuels in the world are depleting. Within the limit of fifty years or more, all the fuels found in the earth will be vanished. The main reason for this depletion is due to increase in population and the production of vehicles. We the Engineers can overcome this by developing a new generation vehicle called Solar Hybrid Vehicle. This vehicle can run through solar energy as well as electricity. So only this is called as Solar Hybrid Vehicle. In last years, as a consequence of the diffusion of Hybrid Electric Vehicles and to the growing recourse to renewable sources, increasing attention is being given to the integration of these vehicles with photovoltaic panels. Hybrid Solar Vehicles might represent a valuable solution to face both energy saving and environmental issues, particularly in case of intermittent use in urban conditions, but relatively little research effort has been spent in this direction. Here it is proposed to have a parabolic point focusing type solar collector to receive the energy. This paper mainly aims at the usage of

The world has giant solar energy resources that haven 't been greatly used so far. Alternative energy presently accounts for a tiny share of world primary energy consumption, however its use is projected to extend powerfully over the outlook amount to 2030.