Marvel Mcaulay: Any consumption uses limited resources, we only have a finite earth.however Electric motors and batteries require less exotic materials and far fewer composite components that are hard to separate & recycle than complex infernal combustion engins & transmission systems.Motors have been printed on circuit boards and mounted in the wheel hub; LI-ion batteries are fully recyclable.Henry Ford was making car panels out of hemp fibre, and Toyota are investigating plastics from sweet potatoe.I think the most difficult component post-peak oil will be the tyres qhich need about 8 gallons each.The only real sollution to 6-9bn humans living on a finite planet is a culture shift to one that recognises the limits to growth and puts human values (like health, friends, good food) over the persuit of company profit and following latest fashions etc, as defined by the ancient Greek Epicurius http://www.alaindebotton.com/philosophy.asp...Show more
Jana Sakasegawa: Met! als are the most recycled materials there are. Metals are much more easily recycled than plastic. If you want to live like the Amish, a small, limited life in one place without going anywhere, go ahead, but don't force your ideas on me. I do not choose to pull back, retrench, hunker down, go back, give up, have less, sacrifice. I intend to soar, to innovate, to improve, to expand, to solve problems that have yet to be solved, like how to get off this planet and claim the whole universe as our home, and to invent new technologies like solar cells cheap enough to put on every roof....Show more
Jackelyn Archut: I am going to describe heresy... we may need to abandon large cities, along with abandoning transportation in cars.Cities will be unsustainable if we do not have just lots of energy to power them, transportation into them and out of them. We may find it practicable only to live within a bike ride from the land where we (not someone else) grow our food.We could bu! ild many gigawatt of nuclear plants and power everything from ! that. If we are content to build an infinity of wind power machines we might be able to support our base load. One of our most urgent problems may be weed control to continue to feed ourselves. We may need manpower (hand weeding) right where we grow our food.Forget about how those many stoop laborers will power their cars. it will be food clothing and shelter for them.Until basic energy requirements for cities are planned for and executed, it does not much matter how we power personal vehicles....Show more
Jonathan Schlussel: Thanks for all the interesting answers so far. A couple of my thoughts:1: I live in rural England so perhaps I underestimated the average American city-dweller's need for long-distance transport. However, I saw a prog on TV which said the American city would not survive in a world without abundant cheap energy. 2: It's my personal opinion that hydrogen cars, compressed air cars, etc., are a long, long way off because ! a whole new fuel delivery system would have to built across the world. Hydrogen is a non-starter at the moment (high pressures involved in production and distribution, it's made from natural gas, etc.) and compressed air - well, even air compressors require energy to drive them, and the energy output will in someways have to be fuelled by the energy input + losses in the compressors, pipelines, etc. Basically, we're back to the energy-of-production-and-distribution problem with new hydrogen and compressed air infrastructures around the world....Show more
Annabell Bevier: No, because ethanol has issues. Biodiesel has about 3x more yield from the same land and energy inputs...http://www.mda.state.mn.us/renewable/renewablefuel...... and that's just using corn and soy, which are actually terrible crops for making biodiesel.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel#Yields_of_c...
Ellis Cellar: would you support converting coastal wetlands to sugar cane crop? the produ! ction of ethonal is more efficient at sea level. sugar cane contains m! ore glucose which would covert to ethonal. if we are going to get very deep into ethonal then the distilation has to be done along the coasts, preferably near the production of the glucose source.
Delora Struzzi: Why not just let the market handle it? Until there is a demand for those types of vehicles there isn't a reason to build them.
Arden Strachn: YES!!! A very good point.
Cyndy Grimes: I do not understand: What can you do with what??? Your questions do not make sense!Are you aking if anyone knows if people used these two devices in a system? For what? with what results? For going 120 miles? Then you want to research it with "positive" information... What about negative information? Wouldn't that be at least as helpful?...Show more
Vickie Clampett: Will a electric car pull a trailer full of 10 tons of food to you favorite food market
Penelope Armond: Please keep to the facts, Why do we need alternative fuel vehicles? Number 1 rea! son is Fossil fuel prices are high. Why are Fossil fuel prices high? No other choice for vehicles and we use it as fast as we supply it. How do we use less? Make more efficient vehicles and/or vehicles that run on non fossil fuels. Solution - 1. Electric vehicles run in equivalent to 150 mpg. 2. Electricity can be made from several types of fuels. 3. If we use less oil, oil prices will go down.Solution 2 - Good luck finding a easier or cheaper solution than solution 1. Plug-in hybrid may be better but more complicated and not cheaper. I could live with it through.Also remember that not all people are in the same situation you are. We all don't live in the city. We all don't want to stay in the same small area all our lives. Most of us would like to explore other areas and be able to get there at a reasonable price....Show more
Elli Esaw: Now all you need is a lot of fuel.
Kaylee Schmittou: America is built around the car. It's all fine and good to! say we should live in local communities, work locally, etc., but reali! stically it's not going to happen and people are going to continue to drive cars.Besides which, studies have shown that only 5-10% of a vehicle's lifetime energy use comes during the construction stage vs. 80-90% during the operations stage. So if you've got a car that uses less energy and emits fewer greenhouse gases like an electric car, it can make a big difference....Show more
Jeff Frizzell: Okay... to respond to a few of the false statements in the previous answers.First, plastic is much easier to recycle than metals. Because people don't understand it as well, they assume it to be harder. In point of fact, it takes as much as 1000 times more energy to recycle aluminum than it does plastics.Second, we are going to run out of oil. This is just a simple fact. The earth does not have unending reserves of oil hiding underground. Read up on the phenomena of peak oil... I was a skeptic at first too, but this is real.Okay... now on to the question.You are absolute! ly right, we do need to reexamine the entire production paradigm. Though granted, the big auto makers are getting really good at reducing their waste and energy consumption strictly out of economics. So with a little more effort, I think we could see some major improvements in this area.As for the notion of living in smaller communities... this really isn't the american way. We love our big, loud, wasteful cities. At least many americans do. I would rather see a functional mass transit system similar to Tokyo's trains. I was blown away by the efficiency of the system, and it's always (99.9%) on time. This type of development would allow us to still move in massive numbers, and yet reduce the total number of vehicles needed to do it. I could literally get to any point in the greater Tokyo area without a car, it was amazing!There is of course the trouble with mass production of alternative fuel vehicles. Since I firmly believe that no one fuel will be the answer, the! automakers will need to devise a platform capable of accepting a varie! ty of power sources. And that gets expensive, very very expensive....Show more
Peter Lapoint: The SS Titanic used steam turbines. Steam was heated in a boiler over a coal fire.Stanley Steamer was a steam driven car. Not sure if it used coal or train oil (train oil from whales).The golf cart is an electric car. batteries require charging from the coal driven electric grid.Lots of stuff on the internet....Show more
Tijuana Tatsak: I used BIDET4ME electric bidet seat, e-200a. so far so good and I am just wondering beside me who also use ? what nationality use it ? I am from Japan... I hear Korea, Taiwan, China, UK, and some other EU countries also use it... Any others ??
King Bringle: ethonal isnt all its hyped up 2 b...
Adam Momaya: Yes, they can't accept the fact that there is the "Worlds Cleanest Car" coming this year."BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India's Tata! Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000."...Show more
Susan Rambo: It's not a good idea to install one in a vehicle unless it's an RV. However, bidets are common in countries with older sewage systems. Brazil tends to use the phone shower bidets, Europe tends to use separate bidet. The use of a bidet avoids flushing toilet paper as the toilet paper is only needed for drying and can be disposed of in the trash. North Americans have put up with race tracks in their underwear but recently have started using flushable pre-moistened wipes. I think the phone shower bidet is a better solution than the electronic as it help! s with cleaning the toilet....Show more
Clinton Migliori: The pro! blem is u don't understand that oil & gas are renewable fuels. Fossil fuels come from plants . The CO2 we produce is taken in by the plants and give us back the O2 ,but the plant keeps the C which is used to build the plant bigger.Follow the oil actually comes from the plants . It doesnt take a million years ,look at the olive, which is squeezed to get the oil out and that would make biodiesel. The dinausauers would eat the plants and get fat but the oil still came from plants. The plants not only recycle our air but also the Oil & gas . So oil is a continnualy renewed energy source....Show more
Brice Greczkowski: If I understand your question right you want to use a steam engine to generate electricity to power a car.I hate to tell you this, you’re better off just using the steam to power the car, look at the Doble steam car, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doble_Steam_Car . Here was a car that despite weighting 5,000 pound got about 30 MPG and meets most of the emiss! ion standards of today....Show more
Emile Midgley: last i heard, more steel is used to make bottle caps than cars. in a dream world, we would have a 90% return rate on recycled materials, but ferioucious energy appetites will push housing/industry to ultimate receive power from nuclear plants. sad as it may seem cars would have to be hydrogen/battery types for real world application. its all possible, but everybody has to pitch in.
Caterina Yeargan: 1. What does this have to do with Alternate fuel vehicles?2. I use a Toto.
Donnell Nocella: if the sugar cane is a better hurricane deterrerant then regular coastal wetlands then go for it. ethanol is not the answer anyway, bush is just delaying the cause. electric cars are the answer and renewable energy sources for electricity. i think south or north dakota's wind can power the whole us with all the wind there. this country really wants anarchy i believe. the government think the people are stupid. just like ! they want us to believe bush is stupid. hes not, he is getting paid ver! y well, stocks, donations, payoffs, etc. bush is probably the smartest guy in the room. thats a funny statement, bush is the smartest. far fetched but he is gettin paid. he is definitely not the most moral or ethical person by far. anarchy. remember, remember the 5th of november. i think the fourth of july should have extremely red alert. the way these terrorist work, 9/11, the way we dial 911 in emergency. on 747 there may 747's landing some places. these psychos think this way. they live in caves with no p u ssy,(must be fags) you may think im a psycho for thinking this, but we gotta be a step ahead. btw, i am way off topic but i get to let my mind go on here. one life one love.
Ulrike Hert: argentsewhy not convert an allready made one? save all that factory work...The one EV car I currently have (have 2 vehicles that run on hydrogen also) I converted from a vw bug and is free to charge. As I live completely off the grid all my electricity comes from solar panels an! d 2 wind generators, which I also built.However I did charge up at Costco in Carlsbad California (I actually only drove up there to fill up) if I remember right it was around $2.00Here’s a list of other places you can charge up, don’t know if there are any prices though.http://www.evchargernews.com/#regionsNot sure if you’re interesting in doing it your self, but I’d be willing to walk you step by step threw the conversion. I've converted 3 of my own cars (a datsun truck, ford ban, and a vw bug) and a few for neighbors. I've also converted cars to run on hydrogen, ethanol and biodiesel, by far EV is the easiest.If you’re interested here’s what it would entitle…- The engine compartment is first cleaned out of any gasoline components.- Electric components are then installed in exchange.- A battery bank is built and incorporated.- Existing starter and driving systems are connected.- Turn the key, step on the gas pedal sending more energy to the electric motor, & ! thus more power to the drive system, which in return creates more speed! , more acceleration.- The system has normal automotive top speeds and acceleration, typical to the vehicle your modifying. If your top speed was 85 mph and your acceleration was 1 mile per min, then this will be what your left with after the conversion.The methods are extremely simple, making the process possible for anyone, everyone, ANYWHERE.Typical tools, hardware & supplies are used, making access to parts available for all.Electric Conversions can be easily accomplished in ANY model vehicle, even tractors, Generators, types of machinery, etc.Project lengths range from 1 day to 1 month.If you’re interested I wrote a guide on it which is available at www agua-luna comHope 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 off! er online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.Dan MartinAlterative 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: www AGUA-LUNA com Stop Global Warming, Receive a FREE Solar Panels Now!!!...Show more
Thurman Buege: you does not could desire to make ethanol. it is totally, very inefficient as a results of fact distillation takes extremely some warmth power. 4 pounds of coal is going into making six pounds of ethanol. (besides the shown fact that it is American coal, and the farm foyer loves the corn subsidies, that's why the government helps it. it is not for our environment, they only say that to sound professional! -environment.) in case you have been going to run a power plant, you ma! y purely burn sugarcane at present. Boilers can run on it, and so can diesels. (particularly! Ingersoll Rand outfitted em, for sugar plantations the place that they had extremely some the stuff.) besides the shown fact that the smart play could be to enhance tropical oil vegetation and squeeze oil out of em, and use it straight away or make biodiesel. (that's lots easier than the different fellow reported, and takes little or no power.) Ships can run on vegetable oil as-is, and locomotives could desire to with a splash replace. Be solid for their engines too. automobiles, make biodiesel.
Sherita Gallati: Brazil has had incredible success getting off foreign oil because of their sugar cane/ethanol production. I would definitely support it being done here too, as corn is rather inefficient. I am hoping celluose ethanol is around the corner, allowing natural grasses to be used that require no pesticides, no fertilizer, no irrigation, and best of all...no planting!Biofu! els are important because electric cars are many years away still from having the range, cost and recharging time necessary to make them competitive. As the energy density of batteries starts to approach that of hydrocarbon fuel, you will see a switch. But until then we need ethanol.As diesel particulate emissions and smog pollution from diesels get better, I think you will see more people use biodiesel. However we have a long way to go. Mercedes couldn't sell diesels in the US from 2000-2005 because of cancer causing particulate, and for the last 2 years you can't buy a new Volkswagen diesel either for the same reason.So until electric cars and diesels become better...plant that coastal sugarcane!...Show more
Miguel Koczela: Sorry to break the news to you, but we are not running out of fossil fuels. We could make gasoline out of coal if we ran out of oil (we ain't). The state of KY has enough coal for the next 500 years.We use gas/diesel fuels because they are th! e cheapest best out there, and that is not going to change. Electric c! ars cause all kinds of pollution problems during there manufacture. Ethanol is just not practical. It is not a good idea to burn our food as fuel. Fuel cells have the same environmental problems as electric and are super expensive....Show more
Vince Delarge: A lot of good points on here I think -sure you'll figure out which - maybe this is one... I wonder in particular about the energy source used to extract hydrogen and platinum catalysts, and the magnitude and effects of emitted water vapour by a city full of H powered cars.
Jackelyn Archut: Well, instead of using lots of energy to build gas cars and then using lots of gas to drive them, we're going to use lots of energy to build electric cars.
Cole Desher: The questions are: What can we do? Where can we find these documented attempts of others. Can we find out if these ideas were ever attempted? Has anyone done any research or have some positive information? Who could we ask or notify, to get these an! swers?
Ariel Arons: Millions of vehicles will be built each year, no matter what. The question is what they will run on. So, there will not be any increased use of resources for alternative fuel vehicles. Thinking locally is not realistic for most of the world's population, because there are too many people on Earth. The only way we will be able to reduce global warming or have a "sustainable lifestyle" is if about 90% of the population dies off. The good news is, it might happen one way or another....Show more
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