A layman investigation into alternative energy sources
Some time ago I decided to start looking at alternative ways to use energy for heating and electricity. With the ever rising cost of living and fuel bills this is something that a lot of people have started to educate themselves on and people are now trying to save money and the planet by switching or campaigning for a better use of our Earths natural resources.
Wikipedia lists alternative energy as:
Solar - providing energy from the sunWind - obtaining electricity from the wind
Geothermal - Using the earths internal heat to boil water and therefore use as a source of energy
Biofuel - derived from plant sources as an alternative to fuel for engines
Nuclear fission - using nuclear binding to provide an energy source
Hydrogen - this is clean fuel used by spaceships and some cars
Biomass Fuel and Solar panels
Closer to home and more easily obtainable are Biomass boilers, other sources of energy are found to be popular too such as solar panels. I've just been looking at some products from Grant engineering so I've provided a link here to them for more information.I have started my own investigation by looking at several sources such as wikipedia but one particular inspiring source of information is Ted.com
If you haven't seen this great site before then I fully recommend that you do. Here is a list to a 'playlist' related to alternative energy talks. There are ten talks in all which you can see below:
Here is a link to that page: http://www.ted.com/playlists/58/the_end_of_oil.html
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Total run time 2:33:18
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