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by Dan Gibson, Dan

Many people, however, are waking up to the broader world of finance beyond banks. Why? Well, so many banks are in trouble as we have seen and the next year is shaping up to be even worse than this one.

Lending institutions do something very interesting when they start feeling financial pain. They stop lending money. While they are happy to take in deposits, the hold on to it in an effort to balance out their books.

Many individuals and businesses wonder if there are alternatives to the banking industry when it comes to financing. After all, you have to look around if the banks are not going to give out money. Fortunately, private money lenders are available.

Private money is pretty much what it sounds like. It usually consists of a collection of wealthy individuals pooling their money in anticipation of loaning it to companies for profitable purposes.

Private money has typically fit into a niche that traditional banks were afraid to touch. Most banks are comfortable with basic lending transactions. If something requires creative financing, banks typically are hesitant to touch it.

Private money lenders are very receptive to creative financing situations. This makes them the primary lending source for such situations. While they exist in the personal finance arena, they typically are more common in business finance.

Just what kind of individuals make up a private lender? You typically find doctors, property investors and individuals with serious money. A person is then designated to receive and filter lending requests.

Cost should always be a factor in a loan. With private money lenders, you are typically going to pay a bit more than with a traditional loan. Of course, you are going to actually get financing, so there cannot be too much complaining.

Money is tight all around at the moment. You know it and I know it. If you need financing, banks are going to be frustrating. Private money just might be your solution.

1. Hydrogen

Slowly but surely, the hydrogen powered car is becoming popular nowadays. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio promote the use of this earth-friendly contraption. Hydrogens energy is perpetual in motion because it is an energy carrier. Its pretty much like a battery.

Most electricity comes from fossil fuels that are found in plants. But if you get hydrogen using fossil fuels and stack up on the energy source, then you are utilizing renewable energy, making hydrogen from water via electrolysis. Picture this the wind is blowing and 4 units of its energy amounts to 1 unit of hydrogen energy.

Of course, these problems result from treating hydrogen as an alternate energy source:

its very seasonal

there is a lot of moisture and it requires to be stored before it dries up from the surrounding gases

limited supply of hydrogen

hydrogen energy is not enough to accumulate the need of normal products

stripping of biomass has a side effect to the soil

But there is actually a good reason to why people turn to hydrogen energy. It prevents global warming that is resulted from fossil fuels. Natural gas energy releases nitrogen oxides and that is harmful to the atmosphere.

2. Solar

We dont have to look too far in giving an example of a contraption that uses solar energy. A solar calculator just needs light in order for it to function.

As for a bigger example of how solar energy is utilized, we look at the forms of solar energy that has become a source of alternate energy. Biomass is the fuels derived from wood and dry crop wastes. As we all know, the main component of the photosynthesis process is the sun. Because of this, biomass remains to be the largest form of alternate energy available in the US.

Then theres wind power that is also the cheapest source of solar energy. The variety on the pressure between areas that is created by solar energy results to wind effects. Turbines then generate electricity in mountainous regions such as Southern Wyoming. Here the average wind speed is 21 miles per hour.

Solar energy is similar to nuclear energy as recent studies show. Example is the power tower wherein a collection of solar energy forms this large field of mirrors that convert it to heat when it reaches a high temperature. This is an efficient generation of electricity.

Realistically, the sun doesnt shine the whole day. It also has to set. So the solution to the question of What do you do when the sun goes down? is the construction of an auxiliary system that stores energy when the sun is nowhere to be seen. Heres where nature comes into play. The ocean is a natural reserve of solar power and thru thermal energy can be the auxiliary system after the sun has set.

Example, in Wyoming, their auxiliary system holds back water at a hydroelectric plant and generates energy whenever the wind blows. Ran by turbines, this is a solar-powered energy that continues to work even at night time.

3. Nuclear

For commercially produced energy, businessmen turn to nuclear power. It is released from nucleus. This is the reaction thru the solar fusion where atomic particles are fused together. It is also derived from fission wherein binding forces break and form an atoms nucleus.

French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered nuclear energy in 1896. He found photographic plates in uranium compounds that behave like that of X-ray when exposed under sunlight.

Nuclear power comes from the combination of thorium, plutonium or uranium or the combination of hydrogen into helium. Nowadays, the basic energy fact is that atoms of uranium produce fission of 10 million times the energy produced by the combustion of atom from carbon. Nuclear power plants use uranium that has been enriched. What comes to mind is the plant owned by Mr. Smithers in The Simpsons.

Nuclear power generates about 34% of US electricity. Expansion of nuclear power naturally affects the politicking of a country. Studies show that developed nations are high in nuclear energy as opposed to those of the developing nations whose nuclear energy is close to non-existent.

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