Energy alternative forms

Reactors Using Alternative Energy Forms for Green Synthetic Routes and New Functional Products... 

At the start of the twenty-first century, efforts are underway to decrease society s dependence on fossil fuels. It is clear that alternate energy forms will bring with them their own sets of reactive radical intermediates and revisit the important intermediates seen from smaller model compounds, as we consider future challenges in combustion chemistry. We expect that advances in experimental techniques and computational approaches will correspondingly be developed in the years ahead. 

Table 3.3 Intensification effects of alternative energy forms.

Houlding T, Rebrov EV. Application of alternative energy forms in catalytic reactor engineering. Green Processes. Synth. 2012 1(1) 19-31. 

Regardless of the outcome from public concern over wind projects, to some they will only ever be a partial solution to our alternative energy needs. They point to an array of other alternatives that are available, particularly various solar options, as the eventual dominant alternative energy form. Ultimately, most futurists look to a time when our lives are powered by direct use of the sun, both to provide hot water and to make electricity (Jha, 2009). 

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