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Is the air that we are breathing killing us? In this speech you will learn all that you need to know about air pollution. First I will give you the causes of air pollution, then I will list the effects of it, and finally I will tell you how we can prevent air pollution.The average person takes about...
The Fuel Emissions Reduction Act Pollution in the United States is getting worse and worse by the day. Poor air quality is a serious issue and health risk in cities throughout the country. The main source of the pollution problem is our transportation. Cars produce roughly one half of the pollut...
A prospective new law requiring every new car to meet strict emissions standards will soon become a nation wide campaign to reduce air pollution. Some day, might younger generations not have to learn about "brown clouds"? It is a respectable goal. New laws regarding air pollution standa...
In numerous cities across the country, the personal automobile is the single greatest polluter, as emissions from million of vehicles on the road add up. Car pollution is one of the biggest polluters the solution is to have much more efficient vehicles that produce fewer emissions with every mile...
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PROFIT OR ENVIRONMENT? The petroleum industry is no different than any other business. It exist to make money and will pursue any means to profit. Americans and other people of the world don't realize how much of an impact the petroleum industry has on the world economy. Most of us don't ...
Why do two stroke engines The two stroke engine, which is widely used to operate such machiner as motorcycles, boats, and lawn equipment such as weed whackers are being tried to put tyo rest because of pollutants they create into the air. These emissions can be attributed to the to the design ineff...
Car PollutionDriving a car is the most polluting act an average citizen commits. Emissions from cars is going up in Canada and the US despite attempts to make engines more fuel-efficient. The main reason is that cars are getting bigger and pick-up trucks and sport/utility vehicles replacing smaller,...
Smog is fog that has been polluted by hygroscopic nuclei which contain chemicals and fumes. This makes the fog thicker and denser as there are far more particles. The atmospheric hydrocarbons from human activity account for only 15% of the total, but the effect they have is great because of where th...
Today, there are too many gas guzzling, air polluting cars on the road. People need to drive cars less often. Everyone should use mopeds as an alternative to cars for their daily commute because mopeds are safer and easier to operate, are more affordable than cars, and are better for the environme...
Imagine the world 50 years from now; picture the scenario of dark skies, gloomy clouds everything around you either is dying or has died. This exactly will take place if nobody takes action against the " potentially earth shattering problems". This horrible scenario would be the result of mankind's ...
This article talks about how the hydrogen economy will be coming. There are a lot of obstacles that they must surpass to form a hydrogen economy. In the year 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 1.7 billion research program to develop a vehicle that would make the air cleaner and use less oil...
In the past ten years, mankind has been searching for a viable solution to the biggest pollution problem; exhaust emissions from cars. Several alternatives have been explored and tested. The more popular of these are the gasoline/electric hybrids. In recent years many foreign car companies have put...
One of the efforts of the Ford Motor Company that made it to themarket for countering the polluting effects of gasoline or diesel was anatural gas version of the popular E aE" 450 Cutaway Econoline van. This wasoffered by Ford in the 2001 model year. The model itself has been dev...
Awareness about the ozone layer has not always been on everyone\'s mindset. However, today more people are suddenly becoming more concerned about the environment. Many people are linking this with the excessive pollution caused by Sport Utility Vehicles. From the standpoint of convenience, safety,...
BIOFUEL - TODAY'S NEED In today's world day in and day out we see fleets of cars, buses, two-wheelers and trucks on our streets. Poisonous fumes damaging our lungs, noise pollution deafening our ears and harried commuters fed up with their lot. Is this what mankind has come to? Imagine ...
Firing Up a 2-Stroke Dirt Bike All Motocross bikes are started by a kick starter. The reason they do not have an electric start is simply because they do not have enough room and it is just more weight the manufacturer has to add on to the bike. Starting a dirt bike is an easy process if the p...
Oil Junkies Watch the Dragon Burn Trends of an Addict The distressing fashion over the past quarter century's economic oil dependence from Middle Eastern and other oil producing countries should be so apparent that Ray Charles could see it. Our ever-increasing costs and demands of mi...
Potential Environmental and Social impact of ELECTRIC CARS A wise person once said that: "The only thing that we know about the future is its uncertainty". This uncertainty opens the world of opportunity to us, allowing progress to pave the road to tomorrow. Over the past fifty years, the automo...
The automobile has become a very important part of today's society. It is a necessity to own or to have access to a car in order to keep up with all of the competition of the business world, and also one's social demands. Most people would not be able to travel around a country or the world withou...
When people think of hydrogen, outside the studying of a chemistry class or something to that effect, thinks immediately of the hydrogen bomb. This situation is obvious a big image problem. Thanks to new technology, hydrogen has escaped the imagine of the unbearable to other more economical though...
HONDA CARS:In today's demanding car market, with so many different manufacturers of cars, which one do you choose? With more and more demand for powerful, fuel-efficient cars that don't cost an arm and a leg only one name stands out. This company is Honda motor Co.. Honda not only delivers outst...
In the next twenty years, the world will have solved the major problems oftransportation today. Global warming news will no longer be splashed overnews screens nation wide. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past as some carstake to the air. In fact, traffic jams will be documented at the Smithso...
IntroductionKevin Brown as a citizen in the United States who is curious as to why we are still using petroleum to fuel much of the United States makes his case by first asking the question, "Why do we continue to use petrol as a fuel if we are so worried about our environment?" Afterwards he poses ...
The Industrial Giant Known as AmericaMany factors led to America having a tremendous rise in industry. The five pointsthat made the most impact were technology, mass distribution and production, education,railroads, management ideas and structure, and immigrant labor. These five points notonly imp...
The Industrial Giant Known as AmericaMany factors led to America having a tremendous rise in industry. The five pointsthat made the most impact were technology, mass distribution and production, education,railroads, management ideas and structure, and immigrant labor. These five points notonly imp...