how to do we replace gasoline?
Posted by Terrence at 13:59, 05 May 2005What technologies do you think have the best chance of replacing gasoline?
- electricity
- natural gas
- ethanol
- hydrogen
- others?
Will we ever have a car that runs on trash (ala Back to the Future)?
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20 December 2004
46 weeks 2 days
I think that hydrogen fuel cells are the wave of the future. We just need the big auto makers to get busy and design cars and truck to run off them. I'd be willing to spend up to about two grand to convert my truck to run off a fuel cell if it cut the cost of fuel.
Celtic Coyote
1 May 2004
1 year 15 weeks
Hay is the future!
Need to feed them horses!
1 May 2004
42 weeks 3 days
I believe alot of tech is already there, but as long as there is money to be made useing petro and the powers that be are making money on it. It will not happen. It is up to the consumer to change useage patterns and be creative in their options. I mayself I'm buying a scooter for use to work and around town trips. It will pay for itself the first year. I also use gray water in my home. And we are working on rainwater collection for are garden for next seasonof 06. Water is the next big take over for corporations, in my opinion.It falls out of the sky its put in pipes and sold to you now by your local water board. If it gets too expensive to handle for a local goverment...
1 June 2004
49 weeks 3 days
If you remove the option of gasoline, Humans will find something else quick. Necessity is the driving force for invention. Wars are a good example of that. Until it is removed nothing will happen; nothing will change.
Humans are greedy and lazy. As a collective group they will sit on their arses and watch whilst their generation poisons the future world for their own offspring.
Whilst there are spare engine and components sitting on shelves, there will be petrol driven vehicles in this world. Money drives everything.
What's that old saying? "It's not about the money, it's about the money"
AAiek
22 November 2004
2 weeks 13 hours
The fuel is not the entire question. We can reduce gasoline consumption and pollution by a good precentage by eliminating traffic jams in large cities. To do this we don't have to eliminate the cars, we only have to replace the drivers by something less stupid. Like autonomous cars that have some amount of coordination to make traffic flow smoother. Oh yeah, we would reduce the number of traffic deaths too as a side effect. People just have to give up driving themselves in conditions where they can't progress reasonably anyway - in the inner cities and on the large freeway systems serving them. We don't have to do everything at once.