Gas Alternatives-Time for a replacement?

[Ban Mido]

Most americans able to drive know how it is. You're at the fuel pump, watching all of your paychecks from the last month go straight into your tank, wishing that somebody would just hurry up and make a cheap and efficient new gasoline alternative would fall out of the sky. But sad truth is, that's not likely to happen, and we're stuck with a myrad assortmant of faux gases, chief among them being Hydrogen and Ethanol, and most of them will actually cost us money before we actually see some gain.

So, out of the known fuel alternatives, which of them hold the most promise? I think ethanol might have a good deal of potential.

Alternative Fuels | Fuels and Fuel Additives | US EPA

[Lycanthrope]

Really, I think the electric cars look somewhat promising. Either that or hydrogen.

[Samber]

I vote for compressed air!


I saw a show once which showed a man and his new car idea. The car ran on compressed air, and the speed of the car was fairly high, can't remember the exact amount, somewhere around 90 or so. And in the show he was still working on creating a device that compressed the air for him, so therefore, he created and used his own "gas" without spending a penny on it.

And the inital buying price was very reasonable, it was somthing like 20,000 dollars.


Here's a link but its not the guy i saw on "Future Cars"


CNN.com - Car that runs on compressed air - Mar 30, 2005

[Thor.]

All I know is NOT water. I don't want to have to pay 3.30 a gallon for a drink.

[Pelafina]

God forbid we should have starting implementing this stuff twenty years ago.

Hydrogen is probably going to be where it's at in the long run though, at least from what I've read.

But the compressed air idea is intriguing.

[Johnny Stooge]

http://forums.khinsider.com/discussi...c-says-gm.html

GM is already on it.

[TheMuffinMan]

Watch the Documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

Electrics cars were already invented and perfected long ago, running at industry-standard speed, design, safety, and energy usage. The Government simply killed the project because relying on Oil makes us money.

[InfiniteTwilight]

We really do need a replacement. I thought water would be sorta good since it could come out as water vapor and return it to the enviornment. Ethanol also seems pretty effiecient.

Electric cars would be awesome too, it'd be sorta like driving a toy car.
I was also thinking maybe a car that ran on solar and lunar energy, but there a still some holes in that. Heard these people drove around in a car or something that ran on vegetable oil and it smelled like french fries when they drove by. O.o

But their might be the possibility for alternatives such as hydrogen or electricity of high prices if they could make stations for those fuels if that comes into high demand, but I doubt it since hydrogen is almost everywhere and electricity...comes from somewhere too so there should be a bunch. Something like that.

[Scarecrow]

well hell chris beat me to it, but uh

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline...........Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.

A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Wonderful documentary.

We've been able to use electric cars for a while, but the underlying fact of it was that it was way too expensive for consumers. Technology should have advanced so far by now that it shouldn't cost so much.
I've no doubt that we'll be driving alternatively powered cars at least within the next thirty years.

[Thor.]

It's not really a matter of finding a new energy so much as a matter of actually being allowed to use it.

[Stavvy]

That and a large amount of people throwing down the buck for said car. If only one or two people do it, it won't change anything. You need a mass amount to grab the attention of other people.

At 3.50 a gallon, I'm sure a LOT of people would be willing for a change. . .

[Candy Man]

My money would be best spent on hydrogen fuel cells. (considering that single element makes up 80% of the planet, and 95% of the known universe)

It's only problem is hydrogen fission, the process of actually obtaining these vast amount of gas. It's efficiency rate is far too low to actually be of any use.

And yet, few people are willing to invest in a more efficient and less costly form of fission. W.T.F?