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Title: Burning Biomass.(alternative energy sources)
Author: Diane M. Marty
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2000
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 11Issue: 3Page: 12

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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1555 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alternative energy for Southeast Alaska: biomass fuels: wood-burning boilers save money for homes, schools and community buildings.
Author: Karen Petersen
Publication: Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 22Issue: 10Page: 28(3)

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Put Your Pig on a Diet
A Different Kind of History Lesson
Put Your Pig on a Diet is a practical hands on "how-to" book that is written for anyone who owns an outdoor woodburning boiler. In it, you will find out why it takes massive amounts of wood to heat your home, domestic hot water, and outbuildings.

Put Your Pig on a Diet will also take you through the author's personal journey with his unit. Best of all there are solutions to drastically reduce the amount of wood that is needed to get through the cold months, thus saving time, money, and effort.

The projects are spelled out in an easy step-by-step process that anyone should be able to read through and understand.

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Get the truth about alternative energy and make it part of your life

Want to utilize cleaner, greener types of energy? This plain-English guide clearly explains the popular forms of alternative energy that you can use in your home, your car, and more. Separating myth from fact, this resource explores the current fossil fuel conundrum, the benefits of alternatives, and the energy of the future, such as hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

• The ABCs of alternative energy — what it is, how it works, and what the real costs are

• Where we are now — learn where our current energy comes from and how much longer it will last

• Take the first step — see how energy efficiency and conservation can reduce your reliance on fossil fuels

• Grasp the alternatives — from nuclear power to geothermal energy to wood burning, understand the benefits that alternative energy can have on the nation

• Apply alternative fuels to transportation — from biofuels to exotic propulsion to electricity, see how they are best used and how hybrid, all-electric, and fuel cell–powered vehicles work

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Open the book and find:

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Energy Basics - Surprisingly Comprehensive
I was expecting the usual hodge podge of alternative energy, but this book delves deeper into the meaning of energy, and the fundamental problems inherent in all energy processes.This is not a rah rah book, but a sober analysis of the problems facing alternative energy, along with realistic solutions.Realism will solve the green dilemma, not partisanship and wishful thinking.
Highly recommended if you want a comprehensive viewpoint of energy.

Basics on Alternative Energy
As a 'green' thinker, I was looking for some ideas as to how to reduce my dependencies on the utilities and energy providers. I had some preconceived notions as to what was available, but really did not know the advantages or disadvantages of the choices.

The author does a great job producing content that can be scanned for items of interest without requiring that you read the book cover to cover.Each of the alternative energy options are explored, with pros and cons, estimated pricing options, and a good comparitive summary.

Required an Editor
The book is very sloppy in both content and style.There were paragraphs that I had to read seven or eight times to try and figure out what part of the message the author left out.There are "facts" included in the text that don't even pass the giggle test.It appears there are many key words that are missing, little clues that might indicate a number represents "millions" of tons, and not tons.Of course the correct answer might be "billions", the text offers no clue.

The author begins the book by stating that he will be "neutral" on the issue of anthropogenic global warming, and then throughout the book takes every opportunity to link alternative energy to AGW -- focusing on carbon emissions, which he always refers to as "greehouse gases".

I love the DUMMIES series, and have well over a dozen in my library.This is the first one that really disappointed me.A decent editor with knowledge of the subject could have fixed it.

Alternate energy
This is a very informative book. I may not do much of it but any energy savings is good for me and the planet.

Easy Reading Low Level Descriptions of Alternative Energy
I am a professional engineer with degrees in mechanical and nuclear engineering. I specialize in energy systems for building heating, cooling, and lighting. I have forty years of work experience. This book with twenty-three chapters and 362 pages covers pretty much the full range of alternative energy options that are commercially available or nearly so for consumers. The technical level seems to me about what one would expect for articles in Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement. Diagrams are few and very simple. (There is nothing wrong with writing for this level of reader.)

Certainly a qualitative discussion of how alternative systems work and what advantages they bring is helpful, but even an interested high school physics student would be looking for more technical content. The book's cover has as the first objective learning to "evaluate the various forms of alternative energy," but evaluation (a comparison of alternatives for example) requires thermodynamic and other technical facts and energy and system cost data far beyond those presented in this book.

After reading this book you will be able to describe in general terms (but certainly not engineering terms) the various alternatives; but you will have little basis for comparisons and selections.

The book has many technical mistakes. For example, the book states, "According to Carnot's law, these smaller power generating machines can never achieve the efficiencies of the massive power plants..." He is speaking here of the Carnot thermodynamic cycle; but that "law" says nothing at all about the size of the system. Carnot (French engineer, 1796 - 1832) found that the theoretical efficiency of an engine operating on the Carnot thermodynamic cycle depends only on the temperatures of the hot and cold reservoirs.

Describing a nuclear reactor the books says, "so there is a need to constantly keep feeding in new uranium material in order to keep the consistent, steady flow of energy that is desired from a nuclear reactor." Nuclear reactors powering electrical generating stations or naval vessels control the power output by raising and lowering neutron-absorbing control rods. New nuclear material is added only during refueling, which take place every year or two while the reactor is shut down.

The book states that steam is produced in a nuclear power plant in "the boiler (this is similar to the boilers used for fossil fuels.) The steam in a nuclear plant is produced in a steam generator that is far different in design than a fossil fuel boiler.

The book states, "Some reactors don't allow the water to boil; they keep it under high pressure and use that pressure to spin the turbine." In every common reactor system, the water that cools the reactor in the end produces steam. For example high pressure water that goes through the reactor in a pressurized water reactor turns lower pressure water in a separate circuit into steam in the steam generator, which is just a big water to water heat exchanger. All turbines that drive generators in reactor plants are steam turbines.

All of us must start with simple descriptions of new things. But one can not stop there if one wants to make accurate decisions. It is not common sense or higher moral values that drive innovation, but rigorous and often difficult engineering together with a knowledge of the economics of energy markets and knowledge of systems installation costs and operating costs.






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A balanced introduction to tomorrow's energy sources


Over the course of the next fifty years, there will be a shift in the quest for sustainble energy, including a major change in transportation from internal combustion engines burning petroleum-derived fuels to newer technology engines using new transportation fuels. Alternative Energy Reources examines our options for energy sources with a focus on hydrogen as a large-scale, secondary energy vector parallel to electricity.

As the price of petroleum products increases, the world is scrambling to find a suitable replacement energy source. In this comprehensive primer, Professor Paul Kruger examines energy use throughout history and the exponential expansion of our energy use beginning with the Industrial Revolution through the present day. The book then analyzes the various alternative energy sources available, including renewable energy (hydroelectric, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal), nuclear, and hydrogen. He addresses each energy source's pros and cons based on our needs, availability, and environmental impact aspects. Finally, Dr. Kruger proposes the use of hydrogen as a fuel to sustain our energy supply produced by appropriate technology mixtures of renewable and nuclear energy. ... Read more

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We need energy to power our computers and run our cars. But who would have thought that we could use poop for power or that microbes could ooze oil? Plug your nose, and get ready to dig into some amazing new sources of energy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on November 15, 2004. The length of the article is 1497 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alternative energy production increasingly viable in state.(Industry & Environment)
Author: Becky Gillette
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 15, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26Issue: 46Page: 22(1)

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on November 11, 2002. The length of the article is 1298 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ag officials eye possibility of alternative energy facility.(Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce)
Author: Becky Gillette
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 11, 2002
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 24Issue: 45Page: 18(2)

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The transportation sector cannot continue on its current path: The volatility of oil prices threatens the U.S. economy, the large proportion of oil importation threatens U.S. energy security, and the massive contribution of greenhouse gases threatens the environment. The development of domestic sources of alternative transportation fuels with lower greenhouse emissions is now a national imperative.

Coal and biomass are in abundant supply in the United States and can be converted to liquid fuels that can be combusted in existing and future vehicles. Their abundant supply makes them attractive candidates to provide non-oil-based liquid fuels to the U.S. transportation system. However, there are important questions about the economic viability, carbon impact, and technology status of these options.

Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass provides a snapshot of the potential costs of liquid fuels from biomass by biochemical conversion and from biomass and coal by thermochemical conversion. Policy makers, investors, leaders in industry, the transportation sector, and others with a concern for the environment, economy, and energy security will look to this book as a roadmap to independence from foreign oil. With immediate action and sustained effort, alternative liquid fuels can be available in the 2020 time frame, if or when the nation needs them.
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This book reviews the conceptual and theoretical background of Saccharum botany, which underlies the growing of sugarcane as a total growth commodity. Management details are provided for energy cane planting, cultivation, harvest, and postharvest operations. Chapters on energy cane utilization stress new developments in lignocellulose conversion plus alternative options for fermentable solids usage. Chapters are also included for the management of alternative grasses to supplement energy cane, and the breeding of new hybrid canes with high biomass attributes at the intergeneric and interspecific levels. The text is thoroughly documented, and a bibliography of 640 references is included. Agricultural concepts and technologies are illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings, and extensive use is made of tabulated data. ... Read more

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This unique two CD-ROM set presents a completely revised and vastly expanded collection of important documents, reports, and publications from the federal government about research and promotion of biofuels, including biomass, biodiesel, biopower, ethanol and methanol, hydrogen, methane, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, plant materials, and much more. There is extensive material from the databanks of every relevant federal agency, including: * Department of Energy (DOE)* DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office * Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) * DOE Biomass Document Database* National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) – biomass research capabilities, projects, research staff, energy analysis and tools; images in PDF Image Gallery.* NREL Publications * U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Programs; Bioenergy and Energy – annual reports, plans, program summaries, project information; Alternatives; Biobased Industrial Products* Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) bio-based product research * USDA Biobased Products and Bioenergy Coordination Council (BBCC) Topics covered include: Alternative Fuels Properties Comparison, Toolkits, Training, Education Resources, Vehicle Guide, Clean Cities, Fueling and Infrastructure, Fleet Applications, Niche Markets; Incentives and Laws. Biomass resources: Corn Stover, Bagasse, Wood Chips, Switchgrass, hybrid poplar. Feedstock. Biobased Chemicals, Materials, Integrated Biomass Systems and Assessments, Industrial Process Energy, Biorefineries, Feedstocks, Thermochemical and Sugar Platforms, Biopower Direct Combustion, Co-firing, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Anaerobic Digestion, Market Issues, Green Power Marketing, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Modular Power Systems, Renewable Plastics, Natural Fibers & Structural Materials, Bioremediation, Biomass Processing; Life Cycle Assessments, Sustainable Development, Rural Economic Growth, Environmental Issues, Soil and Water Conservation, Biodiversity; Habitat Change. Biofuels, Ethanol, Biodiesel, Biofuels from Synthesis Gas, Biochemical Conversion Processes, Thermochemical Conversion Processes, Residues, Animal Wastes, Aquatic Crops, Logistics and Infrastructure, Material Handling, Processing Residues, Forestry Residues, Herbaceous, industrial crops, municipal waste, woody energy crops. Power Technologies Data Book; Fuel Cell Handbook. Hundreds of Research Papers on ethanol, methanol, biomass, and much more. The incredible two CD-ROM set is packed with over 35,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems.Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages.Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. This DVD-ROM disc is for us ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exploring Alaska's alternative energy: the state possesses vast sources of alternative energy in the forms of wind, geothermal, tidal, hydro and biofuels.
Author: Vanessa Orr
Publication: Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21Issue: 10Page: 16(6)

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This digital document is an article from UXL Encyclopedia of Science, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1846 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This collection of entries covers major areas of science including: biology, genetics, microbiology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering, technology, geology, weather, archaeology, psychology, mathematics, and medicine, and provides readers with a wide range of up-to-date, relevant, and accurate information. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from University Business, published by Professional Media Group LLC on June 1, 2009. The length of the article is 342 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The biomass alternative.(Keeping It Green)
Author: Tim Goral
Publication: University Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Professional Media Group LLC
Volume: 12Issue: 6Page: 36(1)

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Business Publications, Inc. on June 4, 2010. The length of the article is 1132 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conference explores biomass alternatives.(GOING GREEN)(Steven Walker from New England Wood Pellet)(renewable biomass conference)(Conference news)
Author: David Brooks
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 4, 2010
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 32Issue: 11Page: 27(2)

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on March 15, 2004. The length of the article is 1812 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alternative energy revolution fueled by biodiesel? Plant to begin producing 30,000 gallons per day.
Author: Becky Gillette
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26Issue: 11Page: 12(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 664 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Garbage as a renewable resource: cheap alternative energy may be no farther than your nearest landfill.(Environment)
Author: Rick Docksai
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: 43Issue: 1Page: 18(1)

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