Where do you think the future of gasoline alternatives is going?

Question

are we going to stick with a gas/electric hybrid? electric?hydrogen? biodeisel? etc...?

Answer 1

We are approaching the point that oil is going to be too expensive to use for fuel. I paid $3.09 a gal. for the last load of biodiesel delivered to our farm.  Diesel at the gas station is now about $3.50 a gal.  The oil companies are going to price them selves out of the market soon.  At some point it will be so much cheaper to just plug in then buy gas, that no one will drive fuel powered cars.

Answer 2

Gasoline is going out for sure and Bio fuel is not the answer,simply because more energy is put into it's manufacture than the product can deliver,not to mention that depleting our food stores for fuel does not sound like a good idea.

Answer 3

Burning water is going to be the fuel of the future, that after it burns, it returns to water.

Water is H20, one part Hydrogen and two parts Oyxgen for those that don't know basic stuff like that.

Hydrogen is what the Zeplin Hindenburg was full of when it blew up and burned on arrival in New York from Germany before WWI, and Oxygen makes stuff burn really hot when added to whatever is burning... ok, it cant' burn at all with no Oxygen...

When they burn together they turn back into a water vapor.

Ok, now the part about how water burns and you may already know how it works if you know anything about your car...

A wet cell battery is what starts your car and keeps the lights on when you forget to turn them off after stopping the engine.  A little sign on top of the battery (go look) says "NO OPEN FLAME" or "DANGER EXPLOSIVE" or something scary like that.  

When a battery is first filled with liquid to begin it's life, they put Sulfuric Acid in it, this is only done one time when the battery is new.  During the course of charging and discharging, the fluid in the battery get low...what do you add?  Water!

When the battery level gets low again, what do you add...water again.  So where is the "Explosive" gas coming from?  Electrolisis is the action that occurs when a battery charges, this is the action that breaks the H2O apart and make the Hydrogen rise and which is highly flamible and can run an engine just like gasoline.  The Sulfuric acid is an oil base and never leaves the battery, the water added just brings the "fluid" level of the battery back up to a normal level to cover the lead plates.  The same action can be done with anything that allows electicty to flow though water to positive and negitive plates, such as a salt water brine solution.  In the ocean, electrolisis is what eats the metal off boats when two different metals are together.  Zincs are added to keep the boat hull, propellers and other stuff from being eaten up, instead the zincs are distroyed in short order.  But the process is the same, Hydrogen is being released from the water.

In due time (and more money than I can afford), "Fuel Cells" will take this process and make it into a viable process where you can fill your car up with water and run it like gas.

Now my disclaimer... for the Legal side

Yeah, I know, Mythbusters did a really lame fuel cell and it didn't work.  They only had a small plate assembly in their model and only created a small amount of gas, but it did start to bubble which shows there was something there.  Then they just about blew the car up by putting in Hydrogen to run the engine from a bottle.... something about a rouge spark or a backfire....

You need a large amount of surface area to create the process, and metal transfers in the process, that is also how gold and other metals are "Plated" onto another metal, the positve plate is gold and the object being plated with gold is a negitive charge which attacts the gold being discharged from the positive plate at the Atom level.  Explosive gases are emited during this stage of plating also.

Power for starting the charging cycle can be taken off an running engine with larger charging systems than are now on cars to run the fuel cell to run the engine.  Battery power would be required to start the process during the starting of the engine to provide Hydrogen to run the engine.

There are some distractions to doing this process, like oil companies losing billions in income from the loss of oil sales and the Government losing some 40%+- tax base off of you filling your car with tap water from your house instead of gas.  By the way, the Hindenburg blew up in the early 1900's, that means this technolygy has been around for well over a hundred years now, actually, much longer since the first battery was built a few hundred years ago...

Anyway, let the neysayers get started, right after going out and have a smoke over a charging car battery

Answer 4

I have a feeling that we will get to the point where no oil is used at all.  There is one problem with that.  Many people in the goverment are in the oil business and make money off of it.  They arn't going to cut off the main source of income just so that the American people will have a better life.  They are looking at themselves, not others.

Answer 5

It's going right to our pocketbooks!! Look at the price of milk, eggs and meat. They have all gone up. Why?  Bio fuels.  Farmers have switched to growing corn for bio fuels and away from other types of corn, wheat, etc.  The price of staples in poor countries will cause starvation in some cases since they can no longer afford food.  DONT DRIVE WHAT WE EAT!!  This issue will be critical in the future and a bio fuel of switchgrass, algae or perhaps fuel cells will be implemented more widely.

Answer 6

Definitely hydrogen .But not in the gas form we are not going to burn it .We will be using the hydrogen atom and no its not fusion .

There is a company forming with 1200 dealer gearing up to mass market this totally new source of energy . Totally clean , safe , environmentally the perfect solution, abundant, cheap , adaptable to any combustion motor such has gas diesel or even steam engines and will be in full operation starting in 2008 .

It is not fusion in any way .The only discharge it has is helium .Cold running and  will increase your horse power .

In every atom there is a positive and negative much like a battery . This certain person has discovered a certain frequency that will turn off the atom sort of speak or distort the positive and negative .Its more like turning the atom off and capturing the energy that it releases ."  IT IS NOT FUSING TWO ATOMS TOGETHER ." Its merely turning them off plain and simple . Doing that in turn gives a poof of helium . The more atoms you turn off at one time the greater the poof of helium thus pushing the piston much like gasoline in a combustible engine but without the heat and carbon totally clean.

Yes there is a working model .Yes there is a patent. No you can not see it until its on the market so that it will not be suppress by the gov or big oil company's or any other wealthy industry . This is for the world not the rich.

Get ready for the ride of your life .

Answer 7

I think ethanol is the future.  It is clean burning, made in America, renewable and cheaper than gasoline.  As more and more feedstocks like switchgrass are utilized it will become even cheaper yet and more environmentally friendly.  Even ethanol made from corn beats gasoline any day of the week.

Answer 8

Alternative fuel will go nowhere. Why?, Because the U.S. and State governments are making billions on taxes on Oil.

In order to get power, something has got to burn.

I say go with methane, we can find a lot of resources in Washington DC