High fuel prices?

Question

u r the leader of a city....high fuel prices have escalated the price of elcectricity produced from the various power stations. the air is polluted with smoke coming from many vehicles. citizens have taken enerygy for granted.wastage of electricity is common.

Explain what energy conservation policies you would implement and what energy sources you would use to explose for future use ??? guess wat u thnk...if uwerre in this situation wat u will do .

Answer 1

1. on compressed air... in car there are 3 bottles under pressure of 300 bars, that can work easy... power is around 20 hp and one charge cost 2 $ and charging is fast, whit that car can go 200 - 300 km...

2. they make cars that go on water... it have a princip of water electolyze that can take hydrogen out of water and hydrogen can be used as fuel... it is only a prototypes... it's need more researching...

3. methane - it is cheaper then LPG (liquid propan butan gas) and we have really bunch of that

inovations are our only solution

p.s. sorry for grammar mistakes...i'm 15 and from croatia=)

Answer 2

You've got it backwards. Traditional cities use far less fuel per capita than do suburbs and the rural areas; they also produce far less pollution and far less garbage. From an ecological perspective, the answer is to move more people to the cities.

Yes, cities could do even better, particularly the newer, spread out cities that don't have adequate public transportation and high density housing (Las Vegas, etc.), have zoning rules which are too constricting, etc. But they are already pretty good.

Among the obvious possibilities:

- congestion based traffic fees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_cong...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...

- require natural gas for taxis and clean diesel for buses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas...

http://www.dieselforum.org/meet-clean-di...

- special bus lanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_lane

But the single biggest change is in the zoning laws:

- to discourage tall building (over 3 stories) because they ruin neighborhoods

- encourage high density housing (town houses, etc.)

- encourage local stores

and in the infrastructure for kids:

- better schools with higher teacher/student ratios

- more and better play areas.