What fuel will cars run on in the Future?
June 7, 2009 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
shagadag questioned:
What fuel will cars run on in the Possibility? Will they run on Gas, Electricity, Any renewable source? Cloned Oil, Anything?
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
HA! Not gas!!!
We have hydrogen cars now, but they only have refilling stations in california atm. We don’t have much oil left. We need an alternate source.
Far far possibility? Probably cold fusion. They’ll run on combining hydrogen atoms collectively to form helium.
But, that is a *LONG* way off (indeed decades, maybe hundreds of being).
If we’re able, we’ll be engineering towards electricity in view of the fact that it is the most flexible (you can have it “delivered” right to your garage), but additional forms have better characteristics right now: Burnable equipment give more potential per consequence than batteries.
If I had to bet, I’d say that the plug-in hybrid is inane to be “the next huge business” … but I wouldn’t bet much.
you are inane to find a mix of cars on the road using innumerable fuels. in view of the fact that biodiesel is simple ample to make, it will subdue be around, and in view of the fact that gasoline engines can run on ethanol with few modifications they will subdue be around also. in fact domestic combustion engines will remain for a long time to come. we will see cars that have dual fuel capability, like E85 in one tank, and CNG or LPG in a second tank, and the car will also have an gripping motor as well to potential the car down the road. i reflect we will also see pure gripping cars using a diversity of battery equipment, from hydrogen fuel cells, to lithium-ion batteries, to batteries that use microbes to yield electricity. we will liable even see solar panels that are painted on the car body to generate electricity. we may even see a return to steam powered cars as part of the mix. and of course the energy companies are effective to start a gas to liquids equipment, which earnings we may maybe see natural gas converted to a liquid at room like so we would not need the heavy and pricey high pressure fuel tanks now looked-for to contain CNG. and of course here is always watery coal we can use a a fuel for automobiles.
Frequently electricity. It’s austerely the most efficient mode in view of the fact that gripping motors are so greatly efficient. Hydrogen cars are in the end just less efficient gripping cars, in view of the fact that as a substitution for of storing the electricity in a battery and using it to potential an gripping motor, you’re using it to break atomic bonds to extract hydrogen, then run the hydrogen owing to a fuel cell, then use that to potential an gripping motor. It’s not near as efficient. Plus the infrastructure is already in place for gripping cars (potential grid), which is not right for hydrogen cars.
Biofuel from algae oil is also positively gifted. See the links below for additional details.
Most liable hydrogen. Here’s why. We are on the doorstep of humanizing electrolysis to the top where hydrogen will be a viable energy source.
Also, fill your tank with hydrogen in two summary and handbook 300 miles in a nice luxury car or payment your battery pack for 8 hours and handbook 150 miles in a modest clown car. Not a hard extent.
Hydrogen is the way yet to be, but even if it is freely unfilled in the ambiance, my nearsest top of re- gassing is 15 miles away !
Gasoline and diesel will be the leading motor fuels for many decades. Between oil sands, shale, ANWR and offshore here is a lot of oil to be extracted from the earth. All that’s looked-for is for the democrats to get out of the way. Biodiesel will be more run of the mill when scientists can come up with a less pricey way to grow algae. Hopefully ethanol will become unavailable soon in view of the fact that it is ruining 2 stroke engines in snowmobiles, outboards and string saws.
hydrogen
ethanol
electricity
methane
or something we dont know that exists yet
Phony gasoline and phony diesel.
Sandia Labs CR5 experimental reactor already uses solar energy to yield CO from CO2 and H2 from H2O, then it synthesizes methanol and eventually gasoline or diesel from the CO and H2 via the Fischer Tropsch upshot which is what WWII Germany and bestow day South Africa, the current US air break down and Bombard’s GTL sow uses to make synth fuel.
It’s not gasoline/diesel that’s terrible but the fact that we’re making it from stored hydrocarbon capital therefore releasing CO2 that had been buried for millions of being and would take millions more for scenery to take out from the ambiance. As a earnings of storing and transporting energy, they’re subdue very excellent choices. Even Hydrogen can’t beat it as Hydrogen has a very low energy density by number.
Probably solar energy burning us all up owing to the ever widening hole in the ozone layer! Or we may maybe all be back on the ancient methane producers.(Pony and cart) Lol.
Lets face it, we will really need hover or running away as here will not be ample road interval to cope with increased conveying.