Biofuels have been around as long as cars have.

A biofuel is a fuel that contains energy from geologically recent carbon fixation. These fuels are produced from living organisms.

Generating Electricity from Wing Waves.

Wind turbines, like windmills, are mounted on a tower to capture the most energy. At 100 feet (30 meters) or more aboveground, they can take advantage of the faster and less turbulent wind.

Producing electricity from solar energy.

Solar energy is a free, inexhaustible resource, yet harnessing it is a relatively new idea. The ability to use solar power for heat was the first discovery.

Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades.

A blade acts much like an airplane wing. When the wind blows, a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind side of the blade.

Solar energy may have had great potential

Solar technology advanced to roughly its present design in 1908 when William J. Bailey of the Carnegie Steel Company invented a collector with an insulated box and copper coils.

We have been harnessing the wind's energy for hundreds of years.

For utility-scale sources of wind energy, a large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to form awind plant.

Biofuels are produced from living organisms.

In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials.

Geothermal energy is the heat from the Earth.

Resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the Earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma.

Geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings.

A geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building.

In the future, civilization will be forced to research and develop alternative energy sources.

Possession of surplus energy is, of course, a requisite for any kind of civilization, for if man possesses merely the energy of his own muscles, he must expend all his strength - mental and physical - to obtain the bare necessities of life.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Elon Musk Promises Major New Tesla Product And Its Not A Car

Elon Musk Promises Major New Tesla Product And Its Not A Car
Elon Musk doesn't need a public relations department. He's got Twitter.

The Tesla Motors CEO has by now developed a reputation for making big announcements on Twitter. That's how he let the world know about the dual-motor all-wheel drive Model S P85D, among other things.

However, Musk's latest big tweet isn't about a car.

On Monday, he teased that a "major new Tesla product line" that is not a car will be unveiled at the company's Hawthorne, California design studio April 30, at 8:00 p.m.

Major new Tesla product line -- not a car -- will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 30. M"arz 2015

Naturally, Musk didn't give any clue about what that product line might be, although he previously discussed selling batteries for home energy storage. Two subsequent tweets already have some fans convinced that is what the mystery product will be. After noting that SolarCity - a he company also owns - hit a daily energy record of 5 gigawatt-hours, Musk said that "with all of that solar power being generated, it almost feels like something is needed to complete the picture"

With all that solar power being generated, it almost feels like something is needed to complete the picture - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 31. M"arz 2015

Something like batteries to store all of that energy, perhaps? It seems logical given the little information available, but it's probably best not to jump to conclusions with one month to go until the unveiling.

A home energy-storage system is also pretty boring compared to what the Twitter mob has come up with. Some of the more humorous guesses include a hoverboard, a space elevator, and an analog watch (ha).

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