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A Quantitative Study of Airline Profitability and Fuel Hedging

paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the issue of fuel hedging. Hedging, as a generality, is a common investment tac...

An Overview of Fuel Cell Technology

electrons back from the external circuit to the catalyst, where they can recombine with the hydrogen ions and oxygen to form water...

The Energy Crisis in California and the Impacts on Education

with the state Capitol in order to "protect schools from shocks generated by Californias energy crisis" (Anonymous #2 PG). The ve...

Why Alternative Fuel Sources Have Been Inadequate

In a paper of eight pages the types of alternative fuels that have been tested and tried are discussed in order to reach the concl...

Is There a Relationship between the Profitability Levels of Airlines and the Practice of Fuel Hedging?

vary, Morrell and Swann (2006) estimates fuel accounts for 15% of an airlines costs, noting it is not only a major cost, but also ...

Operations Management Calculations

too long to make an analysis of it viable when undertaking all the other tasks of everyday life and setting up a business. When ...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy Management

This 14 page paper is written in two parts. The first part examines the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), defining...

Geothermal Energy

the footprint we leave on the world. Geothermal energy is made possible because of the heat differential that exists betwee...

Enhancing Energy Efficiency in HVAC Systems

steam through a maze of pipes throughout the building. Boilers still are in use in many instances, but other approaches have beco...

Overview of Home Energy Production Issue

could equal out. More importantly, though, the use of this type of equipment would have a marked impact on the overall dependence...

How to Decrease Foreign Energy Dependency of the U.S.

disruptions. If the flow of energy products into the United States is disrupted, it threatens the countrys economic and energy se...

Designing and Building an Energy Efficient Home

range (Passive). The "building envelope" is a term that is used to denote how the roof, walls, windows, floors and internal walls ...

Conservation Trends and Energy Consumption

United States is embroiled in another Middle East conflict. The average consumer usually finds out about the problems with oil whe...

Energy Concerns

to fossil fuels, yet many people consider fossil fuels a non-renewable resource. Although things die and become a part of the reso...

Overview of Solar Energy

system that provides the power is modular in structure to allow for various size restrictions and is easily adaptable to fit chang...

VALERO, CODE OF BUSINESS CONDUCT SYSTEM INQUIRY AND HOW IT'S USED

good idea to understand the ethics by which the company operates. We can determine this through examining the companys ethics. ...

BOTSWANA: AN OVERVIEW

government (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Khama is a member of the BDP (Botswana Democratic Party) Central Committee, which is consid...

Energy LLC

equates to a sole proprietorship in terms of the liability responsibility of the partners, whereas an LLC provides all the benefit...

Corporate Social Responsibility And Energy Management

which formed the core aspects of social responsibility today; these are the charity principle and stewardship principle (Frederick...

Impact Higher Fuel And Energy Costs On Business

segments: economic, demographic, socio-cultural, global, technological and political/legal (Hanson et al. 2008). These can be vie...

Renewable Energy - The Pressing Need

focus on developing more oil resources, or developing renewable energy sources? you must consider reasons both for and against you...

Feasible Alternative Represented by Nuclear Energy

per cent below 1990 levels" (Environment Canada, 2002). The Kyoto Protocol was really in a state of limbo until October 22, 2004...

Energy Sector and Market Regulation

for Dominion Virginia Powers profit," published in the Daily Press on September 7, 2003, it is noted that deregulation of the indu...

National Energy Efficiency Improvement Efforts

This paper examines how a nation can improve its energy efficiency through automobile usage reduction and the uses of alternative ...

California Energy Issues

In five pages the shortage of energy in California is evaluated in terms of whether or not it is a crisis or simply a challenge to...

Energy Policies of the European Union

has been declining, the level was only 50% of the budget in Framework Programme I that took place between 1984-7, which amounted t...

Geothermal Energy Usage on a Wide Scale is Not Practical

and space heating are fed from geothermal sources (137). The California Geysers project is the worlds largest geothermal electric...

MARATHON OIL AND QUESTIONS

Another thing Marathon can change is its storage methods - right now it really doesnt have any and must store its crude in undergr...

Climate Change

and meaningful environmental change. The choices of individuals and their application of these choices through constant decision-...

The Case of Pacific Hydro

countries who have agreed to making significant reductions in their carbon emissions, as such there is also the potential for trad...