What do think that would be the alternate fuel?

Question

what would be the alternate fuel for the automobiles

Answer 1

Bio deisel is the way to go.

Ethenol is to costly in both price and enegry to produce and than the price of and fuel from getting from here to there

Go Bio or go Home

Answer 2

i think hydrogen powered cars are the future, either that or ethanol fuel

Answer 3

I don't believe there will be a shift to solar or wind power anytime soon. Solar and Wind power have great potential but are still in research to increase its efficiency. These two alternate fuels are poorly funded because the oil companies just doesn't care. They want you to buy oil and depend on oil. In the future there will definitely be more solar and wind dependencies because oil is not infinite, wind and solar is. The ONLY way solar and wind will die is when the Sun dies. If the sun dies Earth will die anyway. What's the point of wind and solar when we don't even exist anymore. Sooner or later oil companies realize that oil brings along too much social, economic, environmental, and political conflicts.

Answer 4

The electric car will be the alternate in the future as soon as the new batteries make it through development and get into production.  The extra electrical power will have to come from cold fusion which is now in its infancy or nuclear power.

Answer 5

There are several options

One would be using the aircar. It has 0 emmisions and runs off pure air.

Electricity is another opion.

100 percent electricity is another 0 emission vehicle but however electricit ycan be produced dirtily. If we were to have electric vehicles we should make sure they get their electricity from clean sources.

Hydrogen is a great source to but can also be produced dirtily. We need  to make sure it is produced cleanly.

Ethanol, Natural Gas, and biodiesel are good sources but there are a few unviodable problems with each of them. There is only a estimated 100 year supply of natural gas left. We shouldnt have to rely on it. Ethanol and biodiesel still slightly pollute the air so I would not recomend those 3 resources.

Our best bets are the aircar, hydrogen, and electricity.

Answer 6

Electric - no doubt about it.

The only other options are biofuels and hydrogen.  Biofuels require agricultural land to be used to grow fuel crops, which makes food prices increase.  Thus we can't rely on biofuels to any large degree.  Hydrogen isn't a good option because you have to get the hydrogen fuel from somewhere.  The only efficient means of getting hydrogen we currently have is from natural gas, and the process creates as much CO2 as burning gasoline, so there's no point.

With electric you can make it as green as you want by building more renewable energy plants.  The technology is rapidly advancing (discussed below), and because it doesn't have the moving parts of the internal combustion engine, electric cars will last far longer.  No need for fossil fuels and no need to buy a new one ever 10 years.

Available in California in October 2008, the Aptera typ-1e will cost about $27,000 with a top speed of 95 mph and range of 120 miles per charge.

http://www.aptera.com/details.php

Soon thereafter Aptera will introduce the typ-1h, a plug-in hybrid version of the typ-1e with a 40-60 mile range on purely electrical energy, and a range of over 600 miles total when in electric/gas hybrid mode, for around $30,000.  On a 120 mile trip, the typ-1h will get 300 miles per gallon.  The shorter the trip, the higher the efficiency.

http://www.aptera.com/details.php

Available in 2009, the ZAP Alias will cost $30,000, have a top speed of 100 mph, and a range of 100 miles per charge.

http://zapworld.com/electric-vehicles/el...

Soon thereafter the ZAP-X will be available at a cost of $60,000 with a top speed of 155 mph and a range of 350 miles per charge.

http://zapworld.com/electric-vehicles/el...

Available in late 2008 or early 2009, the Miles Javlon will cost $30,000 with a top speed of 80 mph and a range of 120 miles per charge.

http://www.milesev.com/

Phoenix Motorcars will start selling their SUT to individuals in late 2008 or early 2009.  It will cost $45,000 and have a top speed of 100 mph with a range of 100+ miles per charge.

http://phoenixmotorcars.com/

Answer 7

Bio-diesel from algae oil, why because private money is funding it and and it's still moving forward.

Without government funding the private sector works for results not funding unlike other bio-fuel, i.e. ethanol.  The corn lobby is making sure they get the lion's share of funding and corn subsidies that go with it. So my bet is with the people who are putting their own money on the project and not on those spending the government's (yours and mine).

Answer 8

water. and i hear they've already invented a water fueled engine..

Answer 9

raja

Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago and now currently run 2 trucks, 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 http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html 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 http://www.agua-luna.com/guides.html

    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.

    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 http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

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 http://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

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit agua-luna com or email me at [e-mail]

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Answer 10

ethonal fuel is growing in popularity but you lose about fifteen percent horsepower and twenty percent mileage . The upside is that it is a renewable resource.

Answer 11

Electric does sound pretty good but would raise the question of what is starting point of the electricity (i.e. coal power?)?  Corn does sound interesting too, but I think corn and electric are the top ones in my opinion.