Alternative Enrergy Essays and Term Papers
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Alternative Fuel
Abstract The feasibility of adding AFVs (alternative fuel vehicles) to the Lotus Rental Car fleet is examined in the attached research. The advantages and disadvantages of AFVs were analyzed. In addition, the environmental effect of AFV use on future generations is also discussed. By comparing the overall information and data of AFVs vs. petroleum-fueled vehicles, and researching how other fleets have successfully incorporated AFVs, the result is conclusive evidence that the addition of AFVs to
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Alternative Fuels: The Efficient Way to The Future
Alternative Fuels: The Efficient Way to the Future Lotus Rental Cars first opened its doors in Phoenix, Arizona with a $15,000 investment by I.M. Poster. Founded as a rental car agency for value-minded renters, Lotus Rental Cars is one of the worldЃfs best known rental brands. In order to provide a higher quality of customer service, Lotus Rental Cars made its Internet debut in 1994. As an industry leader, Lotus Rental Cars today remains committed
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A Look at Ethanol and Biodiesel for Use of Alternative Fuels
Speech to Inform To inform the audience of the use of ethanol and biodiesel as alternative fuels. Alternative fuels for cars are necessary to reduce foreign dependency on petroleum, gain more economic security, and ultimately reduce the effect of the greenhouse gases on the planet. Introduction: In 1973 OPEC held parts of the world hostage. They willfully put the world in a gasoline crisis causing many countries in the world to come to a complete
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Galileo Alternative Trial Options
Mat Walter Mrs. Hibner Gifted Workshop 9/10 24 February 2006 Galileo Galilei Trial Proposal The trial of Galileo Galilei could be one of the most famous in history. The Church’s actions and verdict are very controversial, but what other options did they have? Could the situation have been avoided at all? There are numerous ways Galileo could have been dealt with, and it is arguable that they would have been much more effective. One way
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles Feasibility Study
Alternative Fuel Vehicles Feasibility Study As a leader in the rental vehicle industry for the past 30 years, ABC Rental Cars has continually remained a step ahead of its competition. To continue to set the pace for other rental agencies to follow, and to ensure ABC Rental Cars' dominant position in the marketplace, alternative fuel vehicles (AFV), or more specifically, hybrid vehicles, should be evaluated as to the feasibility and consumer interest of introducing these
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Alternatives to Prison Sentences
Many of the people that choose to move to the U.S. tend to already be in poverty and searching for new hope. According to the book written by Daniel D. Chiras, "Environmental Science" Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006, a good percentage of the men and women move to the U.S. and find the jobs they are looking for are illegal jobs and aren't able to work. So they leave their own country and come to
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The Effects of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine in Treating Hiv/aids
The Effects of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Treating HIV / AIDS Matt Guptail COM 125 February 4th, 2007 HIV/AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death in the world, and the sixth leading cause of death in the United States for those between the ages of 15-24. There have been and continues to be fast and furious research on a cure, a vaccine, and better traditional treatments. However, little research has been
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Adding Alternative Fuel Vehicles to Lotus Rental Car
Adding Alternative Fuel Vehicles to Lotus Rental Car In an effort to bring down the gasoline cost for his fleet, Lotus Car's Chief Financial Officer is looking at the possibility of adding alternative fuel vehicles to its fleet. To make a sound decision, she decided to hire a consultant firm that would review and determine if implementing the addition of alternative vehicles would benefit the company. By performing thorough research, the consultants will first perform
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Alternative Dispute Resolution (adr)
Law and the Legal Profession Martin Coleman Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Today the United States is a “sue happy” country. Over the last fifty years the crime rate has gone up. According to NationMaster.com, United Stated rank first in total crime with 23,677,800 which is much more than the second place Germany with 6,264,720. Total crime in this only includes rapes, murders, assaults, car theft. This information comes from the Seventh United Nations Survey of
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Alternate Fuels
Abshire 1 Alternative Fuels “Hydrogen cars... What’s wrong with gasoline?” This is a question that many people have been asking themselves over the last decade. In the past gasoline, or an even broader subject, fossil fuels have been mankind’s primary source of energy. Many people are beginning to think this may not be true for very much longer. The world is starting to revolutionize and move from the past to the future. Fossil fuels
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Gene one - Alternative Solutions
Problem Solution: GeneOne Gene One, a gene technology company, finds itself on the verge of becoming one the most profitable companies in this current day and time. Only in business for 8 short years the company has finally decided that they would like to make there company a publicly traded organization. Don Ruiz started the company with a handful of friends and family and it has now turned into a 400 million dollar a year
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Alternative Families: A Look at the Same-Sex Nest
Abstract This paper will introduce the "neonuclear" family, homosexual couples with children and attempt to present a brief overview of the unit. First the nature/nurture theories will be presented to explain the origins of sexuality; then discussing the formation of gay and lesbian families including the reasoning for legalization of marriage and the introduction of children to these lifestyles; including scaffolding and barriers to achieving stability within the family. This paper will then discredit some
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Alternative Fuels
The increase in oil prices, depleting fossil fuel deposits and ominous signs of global warming, have caused people to start to care about what fuels the things they use everyday. Some people are turning to alternative fuels that were dismissed as unnecessary when they were thought up. Ethanol and methanol are very popular options and some vehicles already run on used French-fry oil in modified diesel engines. Most fleets of delivery vans and taxis run
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Alternative Fuels
Name Teacher Class Date Alternative Fuels Today’s environment is polluted with many carbon and other pollutions harmful to humans and the environment. Many of these pollutions are mostly from transportation vehicles. More dangers are rising, causing global warming and health risks to be increased at a higher probability of it occurring. With gasoline becoming scarce and an abundant amount of pollution in the environment, transportation companies need to enforce and search for better ways that
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Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking
Concept Application of Concept in the Scenario Reference to Concept in Reading Metrics of wealth maximization The metrics of wealth maximization are: the balance sheet, the income statement, net working capital, financial cash flow, and the accounting statement of cash flows, (Ross, Westerfield, & Jaffe, 2005). These measures are important not only to organizational stakeholders at Lester Electronics and Shang-wa, but also to industry competitors who are currently looking at a possible merger with these
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Is There a Feasible Alternative Fuel?
Josh Lauer Professor Franklin ENGL 299.02 18 June 20, 2007 Research Paper 1: Is There A Feasible Alternative Fuel? In this research paper I will explore the possibilities of four alternative fuels to gasoline. I am interested in this topic because I am an automotive major at Pittsburg State, and it is a topic that hits home with many people. I believe that gasoline is the best fuel by cost and availability. I intend to
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Alternative to Fuel
Alternative to Fuel If the citizens of the world use all of the natural rescources there are to offer what would happen to all of the machines that depend on gas, there are alternatives to answer many questions. Gas is used in everyday life and it was not until recently that the question,”what happens when we run out of gas” was seriously taken into consideration. The price of gas has become a nationwide burden, but
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Alternative Education
CHARTER SCHOOLS Charter School Since President Clinton signed into law, H. R. 2616, the "Charter School Expansion Act of 1998" charter schools have been providing an alternative for parents of public school students (Lin, Q., 2001, p.2). To date, charter schools enroll over 500,000 students (Fusarelli, 2002, p. 1). Charter schools have been favorable because it is believed that they can provide for a way to enhance student achievement by serving students who have been
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Alternative Minimum Tax
Richard Thomas EK 21 - Macroeconomics Professor Bockino Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) The Alternative Minimum Tax was originally designed at targeting wealthy persons with crafty tax advisors or a plethora of tax exemptions. What it is, is an alternative tax calculation providing income tax. When this number is calculated (The AMT) you compare your regular income tax and the newly derived AMT. If the AMT is higher then your regular income tax you're paying, you're
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Alternate Energy Sources
Fossil Fuels Becoming Extinct Specific purpose: I will inform my audience of how alternate energy sources help protect the environment, different types of energy sources, and the most plausible alternate energy to be used in the future. Central idea: Alternate Energy sources are being developed to address not only the global effect of fossil fuels on the environment but the ever decreasing quantity of fossil fuels as well. INTRODUCTION I. Imagine you are on
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Safe Alternatives to Antidepressants
Safe alternatives to Antidepressants Doctors have diagnosed more people with mental disorders, which require medications, in the past decade in order to gain control with the major pharmaceutical companies that have influence in the medical world when there are plenty of natural, safe alternatives. Psychiatric drugs are now used not only used extensively in our schools, nursing homes, drug rehabilitation centers and prisons, individuals personally rely on them to “help” them with everything from weight
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Alternative Energy
Alternative energy is an important factor to help maintain a sustainable world. Without energy, the world would collapse. Everything a sustainable society needs to survive relies heavily on fossil fuels, and because of this, the worlds fossil fuel supply is depleting rapidly. New energy sources need to be tested and used immediately or the fossil fuels will run out permanently and cause the world’s infrastructure to collapse. Fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural
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Lester Electronics Financing Alternative Benchmarking
The first concept that is relevant to the financing alternative benchmarking with Lester Electronics is financial capacity. When it comes to mergers, a company must have enough financial resources to fund the acquisition (Ross, Westerfield, & Jaffe, 2005). The two companies that were benchmarked, namely, Fidelity Bank and Dow Jones, exemplify the importance of possessing ample financial support to be involved in a merger. The Fidelity Bank of Nassau, Bahamas is recently negotiating a cross-border
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Financing Alternatives
Financing Alternatives Lester Electronics (LEI) is in a position to acquire Shang-Wa Electronics. LEI is investigating several different financing options in order to make the acquisition profitable for both companies. Financing alternatives that are being considered are: issuing common stock, issuing preferred stock, issuing bonds, or a mixture of the three options. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the advantages and disadvantages of each financing option as it relates to this particular acquisition
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Alternative Energy
As we know, the United States consumes more power than any other country in the world. The success of the U.S. can be directly related to its power consumption. Most of our electricity that power our homes comes from burning fossil fuels (Coal, oil etc.) that puts Co2 in the atmosphere, this is causing major pollution. The U.S. has mainly refused to take this matter seriously, as showed by their refusal to ratify the Kyoto
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