If fossile fuel usage is a/the major cause of global warming, what is the solution?

Question

There is currently and for the foreseeable future no replacement for fossile fuels.

Answer 1

There are other replacements for fossil fuels (electric, hydrogen, corn, alcohol, natural gas, etc.), but those are so far away from being practical to the public in general, that, yes, there is NO replacement for fossil fuels in the near future.  Think about it - in the U.S., how many millions of people rely on, just say, diesel fuel?  Everything we purchase and use on a daily basis is "trucked in" one way or another.  Trucks run 24/7, in every state, on every highway, all day, all night.  How the heck is a "hybrid" little dinky car gonna transport the daily necessities our country needs on a daily basis?  The technology is decades away from being practical.  

...by the way, I thought CO2 was the major cause of global warming!  We outta stop breathing!  Save the earth.  Stop breathing!  :-)

Answer 2

We don't have to cut fossil fuels out entirely.  Just reduce their use.  Careful analysis based on real data shows it's entirely possible.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

Nuclear, solar, wind, bio fuels can all help.  Some have their favorites, but, as you point out, this a huge task and we'll need them all.

Answer 3

The fossil fuel is being recycled all the time. When u talk about fossils as if it was an animal . The fossil fuel  is made from plant fossil's.

Answer 4

Solar energy (and may be a bit of wind energy - i am not a great fan of wind). With more and more research and production in solar energy technologies, and both by the products becoming cheaper and people eventually having to spend more money on energy, solar power plants can provide electricity and some amount of thermal energy requirements to get rid of coal usage (power plants are one of the biggest consumers of coal). More transportation (the highest consumers of oil) can/will move to using mass electicity based transportation, reducing need for oil (which all things said, the best compact energy carrier we have and probably will ever have, unless you figure out how to run a car with a mini nuclear plant). That'll still leave out the non guided transportation (especially flights) still relying on oil or other forms of concentrated energy, which i guess we'll continue using coal to produce oil using something like fisher tropsch or may be biodiesel and ethanol, if the usage is comparatively less.

Also, while i am a fan of solar, there are definitely other ways and options for sustainable energy sources and a good energy strategy will take all those into consideration.

Answer 5

Nuclear power stations can replace coal and oil burning plants easily and affordably.  Hydrogen cars could be implemented once they are sufficiently developed to be efficient.

Answer 6

Global warming is a natural process and burning of fossil fuel accelerates it.

Even though, fossil fuels has no alternatives, we can use electric power, hydrogen and oxygen combustion to drive our cars. The vehicles will run slower but it the sacrifice that we should make. We can also use ethanol produced from maize fermentation.

However the biggest problem is for the industries. They may make big losses if they use renewable sources of energy in manufacturing their products.

Answer 7

Oh yes there is.

Toyota has already made hydrogen cars that run on hydrogen. The by-product emitted is water, so it's clean.

Some use hybrid electric cars that is fuelled by batteries.

They're quiet, but are expensive to produce at this time.

If these cars become popular in the future, then maybe sometime later we'd have a cleaner world.