Alternative Fuel Vehicles

What MPG is one that is decent nowadays

2007-09-19 08:54:22 · 14 answers · asked by I hate Hillary Clinton 6

look
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/fuelcell_animation.html

2007-09-18 13:54:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-18 11:14:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, I'm probably not going to be able get a new car anytime soon, but I still want to know about the best car that has:

1. Really great gas mileage
2. 4-doors (basically it just can't be a 2-door car)
3. and is fairly small ('cause i don't like big cars!)

just in case =)

2007-09-18 10:20:29 · 16 answers · asked by mandieshaw13 3

I heard about the new electric cars. Do you know any websites that features lists and pictures of cheap, electric cars?

2007-09-18 08:19:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-18 07:34:14 · 5 answers · asked by kg 2

2007-09-18 06:29:25 · 8 answers · asked by billy h 1

Considering that if most of the cars were electrical, we would need to generate electricity out of fossil fuel, would this be energy efficient ?

Usually bigger engines (like in a thermoelectric plant) are more efficient, but they have to transform chemical energy into electric, which is then transported (with some loss on the cables), transformed back to chemical energy (in the car's battery, more loss), to be then transformed back to electricity (from the battery) and then to mechanical energy to move the car.

2007-09-18 03:41:26 · 5 answers · asked by xbalanque 2

My understanding is that hydrogen powered cars do not emit CO2 but instead emit only water vapour. If millions of cars on the roads today are replaced with cars that emit only water vapour does that mean that the extra water vapour in the atmophere will produce more rain? or will we have a more humid climate? What would be the envirnmental implications of hydrogen cars?

2007-09-18 03:22:36 · 8 answers · asked by mh84 1

So is this fellow

http://www.farms.com/readstory.asp?dtnnewsid=1704581

2007-09-18 03:01:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

And would Mr. Bean be jealous?!

2007-09-18 03:00:45 · 9 answers · asked by icemunchies 6

I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Do you know of anyone who can convert my truck to biodiesel, and what do you need to do to convert a truck to biodiesel? I want to keep using my truck in an environmentally sound way, and I want to make a stand against using oil by not buying gasoline anymore!

2007-09-16 14:05:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I challenge all you green people to find a mode of travel as fast as the airline industry, but which does not produce as much waste. I figured that over 890 barrels of oil are used to create enough JP8 fuel for a 12 or so hour trip by c-130 aircraft. That is a heck of a lot of oil. When washing the aircraft, a fire-hose is used and continuously left on for approximately 4-5 hours straight every night. That fire-hose will produce an average of 70 gallons per minute of water. 70 gallons per minute equals out to be 21000 gallons of water used in a five hour period. That is to wash one aircraft at one airstation around the world. So where is the solution? Should we return to the days of ship travel using the wind?

2007-09-16 05:05:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-15 13:12:22 · 5 answers · asked by nate 1

2007-09-14 04:08:56 · 5 answers · asked by Dave and Sue 1

Does this mean that scientist will actually develope the technology so that it can be used by society or will it fall into obscrurity so that we can continue to rely on OPEC?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07252/815920-85.stm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_sc/burning_seawater

2007-09-14 01:02:33 · 14 answers · asked by Steven Colbert 4

I know it's probaly a really dumb question, but I was just thinking about it while I'm working on my homework.

2007-09-13 14:47:31 · 20 answers · asked by maddyk97006 2

This will be the first in a series I'm sure.

A friend and I are converting a car to electric. We're thinking of using a single 9" 120V DC motor for the drive.

Question: Is it possible to attach two motors in series (say two 60V or a 94V and a 36V), to get the same power output of the 120V? The idea is to shut off one motor while cruising on the highway to increase range. If it is possible, any Ideas where I can find info about how to control the motors?

Thanks in advance.

2007-09-13 07:27:19 · 7 answers · asked by jeepnuk 4

LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is a clean and convenient source of energy in the UK that helps reduce emissions. Should the government make it compulsory for car manufacturers to only produce LPG run vehicles in the UK and phase out the supply of unleaded petrol and diesel over a period of say 3-5 years in much the same way they did with the old 4* Petrol.

2007-09-13 04:47:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Peak Oil is that piont when half of all the world's oil resources have been used up, and as it gets rarer and more difficult to obtian the price will just go up and up, crippling the economy and causing profound changes that cannot be predicted with any great certainity.

There is no alternative to oil that is not really a derivative of oil, nothing as dense or as energy rich.

After peak oil there will be Peak gas, and without gas you can't process the oil sands and tars to liberate the oil in those. Besides, you need a lot of water for the process, and most of the tar sands are in deserts. Without oil, how do you truck in the water?

Nuclear is not the answer as you can't put nuclear power in a petrol tank, and there is already a shortage of Uranium.

Without oil, how do you build and fit the 32,000 wind turbines you would have to build and fit every year for at least 50 years,
or build and fit the 91,000,000 solar panels needed every year for 50 years. Hydrogen? No.

2007-09-12 12:38:15 · 22 answers · asked by Heralda 5

would anyone know where i can go online to find and purchase a still to make ethanol fuel

2007-09-12 11:40:14 · 4 answers · asked by raven_dio 1

If all they need to run is clean distilled water (which is plenty of-course!) and can address all the pressing demands as well, why can't those big companies put in some great innovations and bulk produce them??

2007-09-12 05:27:39 · 11 answers · asked by MDA 4

What are the breathing requirements of 9 B illion daily? What is the percentage of oxygen burned by gasoline?
What is the approximation of the time between now and the consumption of life-sustainable levels of oxygen on the planet Earth? HUx24+GASx24$WHO CARES?

2007-09-11 15:17:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

The pertol engine is technology from 100 years ago. they say in a moden car about 20% of the engergy from the fuel is converted into power and the rest is wasted as heat and noise etc.
It all comes at a huge enviromental and health cost, that everyboady should be aware of by now.

should fossil fuel cars be fased out?

Should they be replaced with alternitives? (eg electric)

Should cars be crushed and replaced with good cheep and reliable public transport for all? (except emergancy services)

or keep the cars as they are, even if its at the real risk of changing our world for the worse? (eg winter 3 seasons a year)

I know this question will upset the 'jeremy clarkson' wonnabe type. whom will piont al sorts of crazy justfication to keep them. Some pople have an un-healthy love cars.

This question is for the rest of you out there.

2007-09-11 15:10:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Check out the link for a new discovery on research in extracting fuel from salt water using radio waves.
Sounds quite interesting....any comments. Paul
http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

2007-09-11 13:45:30 · 6 answers · asked by paul h 7

Check out the link for a new discovery on research in extracting fuel from salt water using radio waves.
Sounds quite interesting....any comments. Paul
http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

2007-09-11 13:44:06 · 5 answers · asked by paul h 7

2007-09-11 09:11:16 · 9 answers · asked by Steve G 3

be specific, document your research, and works sited please. so i can check out other sites.

2007-09-10 04:35:24 · 3 answers · asked by ihatemymirrors 1

At the moment, they're pretty expensive, but for anyone who hasn't heard, BMW is coming out with their Hydrogen 7:
http://www.bmwworld.com/hydrogen/stragegy.htm. Other car manufacturers will naturally follow in their footsteps.
As Americans, is it our duty to buy hydrogen-powered cars, provided that we can afford it?

By the way, what will these cars cost? I couldn't seem to find info on their price.

2007-09-09 16:53:01 · 9 answers · asked by Clean Independent Energy 3

A scientist or engineer who has ideas of using water as the next cleanest fuel as it will emit oxygen in the atmosphere and recycle back as water after burning the hydrogen part as fuel in running engines .I am interested on this topic to know the progress of man's achievment in this alternate supply of water as a fuel as 2 third of the earth's crust is made up of water .

2007-09-09 12:41:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous