The utilization of renewable energies as an alternative for fossil fuels is considerably growing due to an increasing environmental concern and exhaustion of fossil fuels [1-3]. Transportation electrification is one way to replace or reduce fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. Several propulsion systems including hybrid electric vehicles and plug in hybrid electric vehicles have been int...

Four years ago, as the temperature of rhetoric in the food-versus-fuel debate rose with the prices of corn and oil, Farm Foundation asked three economists from Purdue University to take an objective look at the complex forces that were driving food prices. While oil prices are not at 2008 levels this summer, drought and high temperatures are pushing corn and soybean prices to record levels, and...

Mitigating the global warming greenhouse effect while maintaining a fossil fuel economy, requires improving efficiency of utilization of fossil fuels, use of high hydrogen content fossil fuels, decarbonization of fossil fuels, and sequestering of carbon and CO2 applied to all the sectors of the economy, electric power generation, transportation, and industrial, and domestic power and heat gener...

Geoengineering is the intentional large-scale manipulation of the global environment. The term has usually been applied to proposals to manipulate the climate with the primary intention of reducing undesired climatic change caused by human influences. These geoengineering schemes seek to mitigate the effect of fossil-fuel combustion on the climate without abating fossil fuel use; for example, b...

Alternative energy is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel. These alternatives are intended to address concerns about such fossil fuels. Today, because of the variety of energy choices and differing goals of their advocates, defining some energy types as "alternative" is highly controversial. Most of the recent and existing alternative sources of energy are discussed below. K...

As per the growing consumption of fossil fuels and their significant harmful impact on environment, fuel-efficient vehicle is highly preferable thus its development greatly accelerated. Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) have proven to be a better choice. Along with fuel efficiency, reduced emissions in compliance environmental laws, it lessens crucial rising gasoline prices consumers. The HEVs in...

Abstract Energy policy faces a triple challenge: increasing resilience and guaranteeing the security of supply both fossil non-fossil energy, minimising impact on consumer energy prices, retaining consistency with Paris Agreement climate goals. High prices producer rents, however, also present an opportunity: to open conversation about applying principle extended responsibility (EPR) fuels. We ...

There is now a sense that the world community has achieved a broad consensus that: 1.) the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is increasing, 2.) this increase is due largely to the combustion of fossil fuels, and 3.) this increase is likely to lead to changes in the global climate. This consensus is sufficiently strong that virtually all countries are involved in trying to achiev...

CO2 capture and storage (CCS) is receiving considerable attention as a potential greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation option for fossil fuel power plants. Cost and performance estimates for CCS are critical factors in energy and policy analysis. CCS cost studies necessarily employ a host of technical and economic assumptions that can dramatically affect results. Thus, particular studies often are of...