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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

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Then, why do we need alternative fuels? from automobiles, environmental pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, etc. make alternative fuels in vehicles a necessity. Since fuel weighs less than a kilogram per litre, it is interesting to see how the weight of emissions is multiplied by the addition of oxygen.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

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In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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Researchers Propose New Method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Transportation Fuels as a Case Study

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Lifecycle Analysis (LCA)—a tool to assess the affect of an item on the environment—broadly consists of two main stages: building a model of all the inputs and outputs of all the constituent processes (inventory analysis); and then interpreting the resulting data (impact assessment). Central weights box and whisker plots.