The World Bank's Approach to Clean Energy & Climate Change

The World Bank Group is focusing its efforts on four fronts. Helping developing countries to move to a lower carbon path by exploiting renewable energy resources, supporting energy conservation, and increasing efficiency. The share of renewable energy and energy

How Alternative Energy Works

How alternative energy works is not a new concept. In fact, people have been using hydro-power for over 2000 years to grind grain and power saw mills.

Disadvantages of Alternative Energy

Alternative energy would seem like a good choice for new home builders and people who are in the market to buy a new automobile. There are disadvantages of alternative energy that realistically need to be considered.

How A Biodiesel Processor Can Save You Money

Biodiesel is an alternative fuel that is made from renewable resources, burns cleanly, is safe and can be used in any diesel engine vehicle. Biodiesel is being considered the fuel of the future. It has many benefits, but perhaps the biggest is that you can make it in your own home.

Home Solar Energy in Tucson

Solar energy is gaining in popularity, with more people asking questions about converting to home solar. Home solar is clean. Home solar is green. Home solar is almost entirely maintenance free.

Carbon Tax Versus Cap-and-Trade Approaches to Global Warming - Part 1

After making a strong case for Europe to adopt the cap-and-trade strategy back in 1997, the United States took two important steps in the other direction since then. One such development is the recent proliferation of coal-fired power plants built all over the Mid West. Within the next ten years we can expect to see dozens of coal-plants at the 1,500 MW range spewing out about a million tons of sulphur a year into the atmosphere.

Closing The Gap

As we face the threat of global warning and a future energy crisis, surely it is not too great a leap in imagination to believe there is a high probability that some of the answers to our future problems will come from the advances made in physics and its contribution to our technology and engineering capabilities; the more fundamental our understanding, so the richer the opportunities that come by way of technological advances.

How will Biodiesel affect our lives now and the future

The world is quickly moving into a different age of energy consumption. With tensions in the Middle East growing daily, the importance of developing new fuels is becoming ever-important. When you must rely almost completely on other countries for your energy needs, many other problems arise. You then become dependent on them.

What You Should Know Green Energy

This article aims to give some insight into the world of green energy.

Consumers - Is The Rising Cost of Gasoline Affecting Your Normal Routine?

Has the rising cost of gasoline put a dent in your wallet? Is it affecting your household budget? Is the hike in gasoline prices not fazing you at all and you're just rolling with it? Have we become too dependent on certain resources and when there's a crisis or disaster, we get nervous about what to do next when the resources are rationed?

Your Swimming Pool is an Energy Hog - Learn How to Save Hundreds on Your Electric Bill

Swimming pools consume more energy than most pool owners realize. Would you leave your refrigerator open all the time? If you are not using efficient, digital pool timers or controls you are throwing money away.

There Is Such A Thing As A Free Gas Fire

The government is on a mission to improve the UK's energy security and reduce carbon emissions. Almost 40% of the UK's energy is used in the heating, lighting and operation of our homes. With 25 million homes in the UK, even small improvements across the market can have a significant overall impact.

The Economics of Cloning Armies or Super Families

Life is not for sale, but it doesn't matter anyway, it is not cost effective to clone.

The Dismal Mind - Economics as a Pretension To Science

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises I. INTRODUCTION ...