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Re: What will be the fuel of the future?
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Mikis
Uploaded on 02/12/2008

Electricity Will be the fuel of the future.

Or at least thats how it looks now.  Electric cars have been the only type to succeed in the least.  Even though hybrids still rely on fossil fuel, people have accepted the electrical components with open arms.  This is half the battle I feel.  To convince people that a fuel is better than straight fossil.  Then we look at full electric cars like the Telsa Roadster.  Cars like this not only show us that electric cars are possible, but that they can be exciting.

The only other fuel that comes close is hydrogen.  And hydrogen works great, but we go back to the problem of storage, transportation and creation.  You can create hydrogen from natural gas, which releases CO2.  Or use electricity to split it from water.  This takes an incredible amount of electricity and go back to the problem of were we get the electricity comes from.  If thats not bad enough, hydrogen is very hard to compress meaning its hard to put in a tank to transport or fuel in a car.  This also means its dangerous.

Electric cars are much more advanced and safe.  The only problem I see is clean generation of electricity and the actual storage of it in the car.  While both of these can already be done, it can be done better.  All we need is a good battery breakthrough and we're there.  Imagine fueling stations with wind and solar power on site.  Nothing would need to come stock it.  Totally clean.  And if we have better batteries to put into cars, it can be lighter, less expensive and break that 200 mile range issue.  That is my dream. 

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Re: Re: What will be the fuel of the future?
The fuel of the future is hydrogen, because it is derived from the never ending source of water.  It is versatile as a fuel cell, and combustible in a controlled  environment.  The variable for automotive engines is what I call a hydrolytic converter. Like the lithium battery, the hydrogen fuel cell can recharge from solar collectors.  At least that is my theory.  
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I agree entirely with you. Currently I am saving up to convert my 88 firebird into a fully electic vehicle but the only problem is the batteries. On the current most affordable batteries (for me) I would only be able to travel approxamitly 70Km and that is the main reason people don't want electric cars yet.
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