How can we reduce our dependency on oil?

Question

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Invest in company's that  are investing in alternative -fuel.

Answer 2

America needs a better transit system. I mean in big citys they have cabs and subways but it seems like no where else.

I think America should invest in building more subways and trollys.

Answer 3

let me start off by saying Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago. Have converted over 50 vehicles in the last 10 years (gydrogen and EV) and now currently run 2 trucks (and another EV), my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen for free with caught rain water and the help of a $10 solar panel.  I offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.

There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here. The fallowing steps were taking directly out of a DIY guide I offer to those who would like to run their vehicles or home on hydrogen safely. The entire guide is available at www agua-luna com

    On demand h2 generators are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in its gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas “on-demand” in small cylinder size amounts. It’s actually safer then gasoline as it doesn’t evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas. the following were actually taken out of my $5 guide available at www agua-luna com

    Chemically

    1. You’ll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    2. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano’s do to).

    3. Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

    What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don’t really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up its hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

    Electrical is a bit easier then Chemically.

    1. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what I use ($9 at harborfreight.com), connect the 2 wires from the panel +- to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work ie. Copper, aluminum, steel, etc.

    2. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), make sure they don’t touch each other.

    3. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    4. Then simply add water, s***w on the top cap and wait.

    After a few hours tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that’s hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don’t remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

    The third method is more complicated and is what I use for my vehicles. It’s just a modified Joe’s Cell, there’s a step by step DIY guide available to walk you threw the process here www agua-luna com

It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

Alterative Energy / Sustainable Consultant, Living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World... Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY... All With Just One Click of A Mouse...For more info Visit:  

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Stop Global Warming!!!

Answer 4

Invest, as individual investors, in factories to build green technologies that already exist. If we are afraid to invest, if we just want everyone else to take the risk while we hope to reap the rewards from doing nothing, we will get the rewards we deserve.

Nanosolar and EESU  combined can solve dependence on oil, natural gas, and coal. We sit on our hands and leave those technologies almost on the shelf, or forced to sell all of their production to Germany.

What a bunch of wimps North American investors are!

Answer 5

On CoolingEarth.org under "California can be Carbon Neutral" you can learn how to set the USA up to be an exporter of oil by 2020.

Answer 6

Biofuels can be produced in large quantities rapidly so.....

Answer 7

use electricity. more energy hits this earth from the sun than we could ever use. if we were serious we could develop a decent solar pannel. with that and a little bettter battery technology in less than 10 years we could be building cars that run completly off electricity and have an infrastructure of solarfarms etc. of course we would still be using oil, the military, airplanes, and farms and large boats will probably run off oil but we could probably produce that at home...

Answer 8

Big picture: Governments providing much greater financial incentive to business and home owners to install solar panels and solar space heating devices, sufficient for financial payback to the home owners of less than 3 years.

Little picture. Individuals being more proactive in doing their part to actually consume less energy. Simply things like:

weaterh stripping and caulking around the openings of the house to reduce air leakage;

installing exterior blinds on the outside of east, south and west facing windows to reduce dramatically the sun's UV rays entering the house causing excess heat build-up inside;

having an energy audit on one's home to find out about energy conservation activities speicific to your own home.

We can't control the big picture; we can constrol our own consumption of non-renewable resources.

Dan

Answer 9

Ammonia utilization as fuel(hydrogen storage).

Scheme:

Hydrogen ----(energetic efficiency:about 85%)----> ammonia  ----> hydrogen ----> fuel cells/turbo-gas (energetic efficiency: more than 50).

It's possible to produce directly cheap ammonia from cheap wind...

Answer 10

If you cannot change your home to solar and wind electricity, with BIO or thermal heating due to cost or you cannot buy an electric/hydrogen vechile, then the greatest way is to cut down.

Vechile

Use less force on the breaks and do not speed, go at a slower pace if possible, this will still allow you to move swiftly on the roads however it will exhaust less emissions.

Home

Turn off the lights during the day, turn off all electronics in rooms not being used and even at night, only have lights on in the room your in, or non if possible. Do not keep your computer on or on standby and both ways use up a lot, using these simple techniques will lower your electricity bill and help save the environment we live in.

Daniel.

Answer 11

Walk, ride bikes, come up with renewable fuels (which probably wont happen untill oil is completely depleted on earth. Oil companies *shudder*) Dont travel as much. Cars were invented to travel easier and longer and to carry several passengers. If only we could make cities closer together...

Answer 12

use less, plain & simple. Not fashionable or fun, but the only real solution.

Answer 13

Buy less of it. My cars don't use it at all; they run on natural gas (methane). I haven't bought gasoline in months, and it feels great! If there were more filling stations for natural gas cars, then the automakers would make more of them and people would buy more of them, and it would all work out! Problem is, there aren't a lot of stations yet, and some states don't have even one. Check my sources and see if you can fill up near you, and if so, go out and get yourself a natural gas powered car! They are way cheaper to fill up and way cleaner for the environment, and natural gas comes from the USA, too. Very little downside!

Answer 14

more people walking and driving less, and using hybrid cars, good gas milage cars etc....