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What H2O Gas Vehicles Are and the Technology Behind Them

June 15th, 2011

What H2O Gas Vehicles are and the Technology behind Them

The modern energy crisis surrounding the high price and possible depletion of the oil resource is something that everyone knows about. It is consistently on the front page of every newspaper in the country and that in turn serves to remind people that alternative technologies are actively being sought in order to help with the mitigation of this problem. Technology is available in multiple formats when it comes to alternative energy, but there is one type of energy that you do not ever hear about. This is H2O energy and it is one of the simplest and most efficient ways of doing things.

The Basics

H2O is actually a chemical formula for a molecule that has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Many people have already heard of this particular molecule in this particular form and will know that H2O is nothing more than simple water. While people might be surprised that water can help run your car, it is also important to realize that there are some steps that you might take in order to ensure that it actually works.

While you can not actually run all of the parts of your car on straight water, there are steps that you can take that will allow you to do some things on water and some things on gas. This will have the net effect of increasing the amount of gasoline efficiency that your vehicle has and that means that over the long run you will end up purchasing much less gas for the exact same trip that you might take.

Putting it Together

If you are interested in putting it all together and getting the water to help you run your car, you need to purchase a kit from the marketplace that will allow you to do that. Once you have assembled the kit, it should be able to borrow power through electricity from the battery in your car and then use that electricity to separate the water molecules into their constituent hydrogen and oxygen elements. This means that you are taking electricity to split the water molecules and ending up with a stack of hydrogen and a stack of oxygen gas.

Once you have done that, hydrogen can be used as an safe power source to help propel your car forward. While this will not work as a sole fuel, it will help you reduce the amount of gasoline that you consume and that in turn will serve to make your life a bit easier. The oxygen will be released as a waste product of the reaction, but of course oxygen is the basis of human breathing on the planet and therefore there are no ill environmental effects that can arise from the release of oxygen into the atmosphere.

While this solution is not for everyone, it is a solution that people have been able to use to make their lives easier. Ultimately, only you can decide if it is appropriate to your particular situation.

 

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Renewable Energy in the UK – Technologies and Advances

June 13th, 2011

What is renewable energy?

Renewable energy can be defined as anything that is used to make electricity without using non-renewable fuels and which doesn’t make a net contribution to the carbon monoxide in the atmosphere. Types of renewable energy wind, tidal and solar power, geothermal energy and biomass. Although nuclear power is low-carbon, because it uses uranium which is a finite fuel it can’t be considered renewable.

The leading technologies:

The UK Government has committed to producing 15 per cent of its energy using renewable sources by 2020 and has massive resources in wind and wave energy. The UK has made major steps in the development and installation of more projects and by 2007 had 2 gigawatts of turbines installed. The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has said there will be 9GW of offshore wind turbines installed by 2015, producing more energy for the country than nuclear power.

Also, according to the Centre for Alternative Technology, wave power could end up supplying around 10 per cent of the UK’s total energy requirements. However this technology is at a much earlier stage and while Britain is at the forefront of technological development, commercially usable designs have not yet been produced.

Solar power technology has been becoming more and more popular over recent years. These include photovoltaics that use direct sunlight and thermal energy from the sun to produce electricity. The most common uses of these are to heat water in homes and generate small amounts of electricity for the homes but solar power plants focus sunlight using hundreds of mirrors to superheat water to create steam that turns turbines and generates electricity.

Geothermal energy is another one of the main renewable sources and involves accessing heat that is naturally stored deep underground in either pockets of steam or hot water. Methods of utilising this natural energy require drilling deep into the Earth, pumping water into the hole allowing the fracture rocks that have been heated by the earth to heat the water being pumped down.

What is happening now?

At the moment, the UK only gets 1.8 per cent of its energy from renewable sources while EU figures show that Scandinavian countries such as Sweden’s renewable energy share is as high as 40 per cent. However, green energy investment last year overtook that of fossil fuels. Over a third of the world’s investment was in the UK and Europe whilst China and India showed the largest growth.

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