Mean Green

For decades scientists have been searching for viable alternative energy sources that don’t use up our dwindling resources. Recent worries about the harmful pollutants caused by our traditional fuels have made the search for alternative energy even more urgent. One of the most promising new fuel sources being developed is biodiesel algae. Unlike biodiesel made from corn or soybeans, the use of algae would allow us to create large reservoirs of fuel without having an impact on food production. Biodiesel fuel has already been proven to work, and many automobiles are powered by biodiesel fuel today.

How Does it Work?

The algae that is used to create biodiesel algae naturally contains a large amount of lipid oils. Those oils can be strained out of the algae, then processed through a catalyst, which creates a chemical reaction that converts the lipid oils into burnable fuel. Once the algae oil is converted, the resulting fuel can be used in cars, airplanes, or any other gasoline burning machinery. This fuel is biodegradable and clean burning, unlike the oil-based products widely in use today. The interest in algae-based fuel is growing, and new technologies are being developed to take advantage of this new fuel source.

Can we Make Enough?

The interesting thing about biodiesel algae is that it is the most viable candidate for biologically replacing all of the fuel that is consumed worldwide. If algae were used to replace all of the petroleum that is used in the United States today, it would only require 1/7 of the space that is currently used to grow corn. Algae is an incredibly efficient oil producer, and it is easy to cultivate. Scientists are working with microalgae, which grows much faster than naturally occurring algae. It is possible to gain up to 20,000 gallons of oil from one acre in a year. At that rate, algae seems a logical renewable biofuel with very few drawbacks.

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The technology currently available on earth is not advanced enough to offer pure alternative fuel vehicles for the masses, but it is advanced enough to offer hybrid alternative fuel vehicles. I will tell you some details about these vehicles and why I think they are the future in motoring.

Hybrid vehicles have been around for the past decade or so and are getting more and more popular by the minute. Hybrid cars have a small petrol engine that can power the wheels but most of the times it is used to power a generator and charge the batteries for the electric motor. No, these small engines burn very small amounts of fuel and because of this you get hundreds of miles per gallon, depending on the car you decided to buy. This high efficiency is also coming with a very affordable and reasonable price tag.

Of course, you shouldn’t expect lighting acceleration from these cars, they are made to be efficient and burn as little fuel as possible. The problem with these cars is that not many manufacturers are developing them and that you actually need to pay a bit more for a hybrid car. I think this will go away as soon as the manufacturers around the world each start developing the technology further and this way the prices will drop and the reliability will increase even more.

To be efficient and reliable, alternative fuel vehicles need to be improved with each generation, and, similar to how the petrol car evolved, the hybrid and pure electric cars will surely get there one day. I can’t say for sure when, but they will surely be effective and cheap and reliable, just like the petrol car is today, only they will be cheaper to run and friendly to the environment.

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Most traditional fireplaces can be identified as masonry fireplaces. The creation of masonry fireplaces throughout the world continues to be included in the construction of new homes. Masonry fireplaces are created with the use of natural materials such as brick, cement blocks, or natural stones which will include the use of some sort of binding agent that helps to hold the individual components of the fireplace together.

Depending on the design, the masonry material may include one or more types of materials. A masonry fireplace may be constructed mainly of bricks that have been cured and fired, but treated to a fa

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In the last issue of the magazine BIT, published by the School Engineer officer of Telecommunications, emphasizes contents among others an article referring to the importance of the renewable energies in the future of telecommunications.

Given the present number of wireless telephone users on the planet (3500 million) and the considered annual growth in 500 million, mainly in developing countries, and it is necessary to begin to review accounts and its costs to feed the station bases, the antennas that gives us our coverage. Now there are about three million station bases and really we are needing about two million more of these bases to compliment the demand in the telecommunications industry around the world.

As we have mentioned, many of those station bases are due to install telecommunication in developing countries, therefore, there are less efficient distribution networks of electrical energy than in the industrialized countries. If in addition we consider that with the improvement of the electronics as needed less requirements for power, the equation is solved by resorting to renewable energy types. A generators diesel power that are used sometimes are more and more expensive and it lies down to use solar energy mainly, although it does not discard the Aeolian energy nor the bio-combustibles.

In the industrialized countries numbers are becoming. To generate the energy necessary in this way is cheaper than to pay the electrical provision and contributes to diminish the CO2 emissions. The main data to support the use of solar power generation to power the telecommunication industry is that costs can be lowered more competitive.

As the Philippines seeks better ways to use its resources in combating climate change, a new discovery by a Filipino biotechnology company based in the U.S. has tapped a wonder plant in the country as a source of biofuel.

Malunggay, scientifically known as Moringa oleifera Lamk, which is widely grown in the Philippines and is considered one the world’s most useful plants, is found as a good source of Moringa oil. This oil is believed to be a biofuel source.

SECURA International announced that malunggay oil is being tapped by the North American Biofuels Inc. (NABI) since January as possible raw material for biodiesel production. As a result, the former is currently growing malunggay in 500,000-hectare farmland to meet the demands of NABI.

Since malunggay can easily be grown in the country, SECURA International president Danny Manayaga encouraged the Filipino farmers to take advantage of the situation in meeting the demands of the world for the Moringa oil supply to be used as biodiesel.

Manayaga said this business is sustainable since the market is very accessible. Currently, there are 165 marketing companies in the U.S. for biodiesel using soybean oil as raw material. It is expected that in the next 50 years, Japan and Korea will be the biggest markets of Moringa oil for their automobiles that will use biodiesel.

Others might be thinking of the real viability of Moringa oil as biodiesel. But the NABI has already authenticated that it has passed the biofuels standards. This means doubts of whether this can truly be used are over.

Earlier, the Philippine government is endorsing jatropha as a source of biofuel. However, Manayaga said Moringa oil is more useful that jatropha. What makes malunggay better than the jatropha is that malunggay is 100 percent usable; all parts are biodegradable. Unlike jatropha, it has a toxic part. Once its oil is extracted, the left-over part becomes a nuclear waste according to the findings.

With malunggay as a biofuel source in the Philippines, the country may in some way help other countries reduce the impact of global warming by sharing the benefits of Moringa oil.

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