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    emissions of diesel engines are to help the environment. The things being done to the engines are supposed to help them run cleaner. Some of the things that are being done are different mufflers, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) and burning the exhaust more than once. But, they are actually causing more issues than they are helping by causing the trucks to have issues, making the commodity not get to its destination on time, costing people more money, and making the engines burn more fuel and work harder

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    What is Bio-fuel? Essay

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    What is Bio-fuel? Bio-fuels are fuels derived from sustainable and renewable biological sources (ABC’s). These sources, commonly referred to as Biomass, usually consists of either food crops (corn, sugar cane, wheat, and potato’s), various biological oils (peanut, sunflower, algae, and soy oil), or biological waste (waste vegetable oil, wood-chips, corn leaves and stalks, and yard waste) (Biofuels)(Biomass). Bio-fuels are often touted as a viable carbon-neutral replacement for carbon based fossil

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    how might America completely destroy or at least greatly mitigate its dependency on crude oil to fuel Americans’ cars, especially foreign crude oil. Library literature, newspaper articles, encyclopedias, and the Internet were all sources used to compile this paper. The conclusion reached in this research topic is that America’s great foreign oil dependency is a crisis and other energy sources to fuel our cars need to be adopted and implemented before the people

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    • As compared to petrol, ethanol when used as a fuel has less mileage • The net energy output of ethanol is negative i.e. it consumes more energy as compared to the amount that it releases • It involves tweaks to the internal combustion engine for it to be used with ethanol and thus it is costly as compared to normal gasoline Biodiesel: Biodiesel is derived mainly from animal and vegetable oils. The most promising of them are algae based and bacteria based oils with just sunlight and CO2. In India

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    The shortage of energy is already one of crucial issues in some areas and it is spreading steadily across the globe. In addition, the vast majority of the consuming energy comes from nonrenewable fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, which threaten the damage of environment that can lead to the global warming. Therefore, it is required to find new renewable source of energy, which can entirely ensure sustainable system and provide the population with environmentally friendly, financially

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    Introduction: Imagine a fuel that can reduce harmful emissions and boost domestic economy around the globe. A fuel that commit our working demand which must clean, sustainable and made from abundant resources. Methanol is that type of fuel, a globally accessible fuel that already widely used by many countries around the world and it’s making headline around the globe. Methanol is the simplest alcohol fuel and the source of energy for fuel cell. It’s also a basic chemical building block, used in the

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    functional truck and fuel being obtained is not realistic because for starters where would they get the fuel from if the gas station are destroyed and can’t function without electricity. To find a functional truck would be rare since it has been years since the disaster happened and the trucks engine would probably not work because of how much time it has passed. Although the book talks about the diesel truck which makes me wonder how the people driving the diesel have fuel. “He had a tattoo of

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    Gas Guzzler Incentives

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    The United States is one of the large fossil fuel consuming country. Most of the automobile vehicle in the country run on the fuels like gasoline and diesel. These fuels are responsible for the increase in pollution. The demand for this fuel is increasing day by day. It is necessary to find alternative fuels because at some point these fuels are going to end. To encourage users to use cleaner vehicles to avoid pollution federal and state governments provide users significant incentives. Around 1970

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    interfered with, and a large amount of the pollutants that cause the interference come from combustion engines. In the combustion cycle of an internal combustion engine, a fire is created which burns fossil fuels such as diesel and gasoline. Although the fire is contained well, not all of the fuel is burned off and in turn is exhausted with the same chemicals that were

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    to run. Electrical vehicles are thought to be one of the solutions to greenhouse gases and global warming. While electric vehicles tend to produce pollution at times from their backup motors, electrical cars depend on a fuel source that doesn’t originate from burning fossil fuels, which produces fewer greenhouse gases and cuts back on oil consumption. Electric Vehicles are starting to replace combustion engine vehicles, and some towns are using smaller electric vehicles in their own Public Safety

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