what would happen if there was no more gas?

Question

how would our lives change?
what will be the cause and effect of the situration?

Answer 1

You have a very good question. Alternate energy is something that I plan on dedicating my life to. One of the other answers says that we would have electric cars. However, in most areas of the world electricity is generated using gas, such as coal, nuclear, etc.

Right now we are developing hydrogen fuel cells which can supply us with energy that can be used for mechanical purposes, such as powering a car. Such hydrogen fuel cells could be recharged using solar, wind, or hydroelectric power. One of my patents is on a hydrogen fuel system such as this.

As far as generating electrcity itself, we would have to depend on solar, wind, and hydroelectric power plants.

As for me personally, I have also designed an electric circuit that will make solar panels (photovoltaics) much more powerful than what they currently are. This will make them very viable for solar-augmented hybrid cars, stand-alone power supply for cars, or to solar-charge an onboard hydrogen fuel system. You would simply add water to a tank in your car, and an electrolsys machine on board the car, powered by the high powered solar panels that I have designed, would separate the hydrogen from oxygen, the hydrogen would then be used as fuel, and the oxygen would likely be discharged into the environment unless other engineers decided that it would be better used for combustion. The solar panels themselves would be integrated into the skin of the car.

A couple of other types of solar plants also exist:

1. One way of extracting hydrogen from water is to simply flash heat the water up to about 1,000 degrees celcius. The water has to be kept pressurized to keep it from turning into steam. At about 1,000 degrees celcius water molecules split apart into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can very easily be extracted from the oxygen. The hydrogen can then be used for fuel or to generate electricity.

2. Another way type of solar plant works very similarly to the one above except that instead of flashing the water to a temperature to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, it simply heats water up until it turns into superheated steam. The superheated steam is then used to turn a set of steam turbines, which in turn is used to turn the rotor of an alternater, which provides electricity. Solar plants that use this concept are also becoming more and more common.

There are a few solar power plants in the country that work off these two premises. They use parabolic mirrors to heat a clear tube of water. The parabolic mirrors change position to chase after the sun. They can heat the water in the tube to several thousand degrees to cause the molecules to split or they are used to simply heat the water until it becomes superheated steam. When used to split molecules, the hydrogen extracted can then be used for fuel or to generate electricity. When used to generate superheated steam, the steam powers steam turbines to power an alternater for electricity. There are a few manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that have such systems on the roof of their manufacturing plants. They use this technology to generate the electricity to power their manufacturing facility. This allows them to save a very substantial amount of money from their manufacturing expenses.

You are asking a very good question because I very firmly believe that we will be out of gas by the end of this century, if not much sooner. People can deny this all they want but the fact is, fuel is a non-renewable resource and we only have a limited amount of it. Fuel is not only used to power cars, airplanes, trains, etc., but also to generate electricity. Every single kilowatt hour of electricity requires a very specific amount of fuel to make it. The good thing is, however, that fuel is transferrable between chemical, electricical, mechanical forms of energy. That is why engineers such as me can use hydrogen for mechanical or electrical energy and why we can generate hydrogen through mechanical or or electrical means. All of these different types of energies are directly transferrable.

As an example of this let's just think about the system that we have in place right now. A power plant burns fuel to generate electricity. It has to burn a very specific amount of fuel to create every single kilowatt hour. Luckily, however, some of these power plants are hydroelectric powered, nuclear powered (which in my opinion, is an excellent option, regardless of what others who know less about it than I do may think), wind powered, etc. So you take this chemical energy (fuel) and you transfer it into electrical energy. People then use this electrical energy to transfer it into mechanical or light energy, such as turning on an overhead fan in your house, your house's air conditioning, lights, etc.

Conversely, energy can also go the opposite direction. I can put up a windmill on the roof of my house. It will supply my house with power and using a grid-tied inverter, it will actually add electrical energy into the grid for other people to use, which will decrease the demand placed on the electric company's power plant, which directly reduces the amount of fuel (chemical energy) that they have to burn to generate electricity.

Your question taps into something that I have focused many years of my life into, have two patented inventions in, and am working on a third. There are a lot of people out there that don't think that we should do anything until we have to. Those are the same types of people that don't worry about cancer, HIV, or other ailments until they actually get it themselves, and then suddenly they become advocates. Humans naturally don't change their ways until they have to, and then they take things to an opposite extreme. The fact is, this is something that we need to start worrying about right now, because in the not-too-distant future when we have no fuel, it will already be too late.

Answer 2

But, there is gas and looks like there will be for a while and by then as we (if we) run out gradually, we will adapt, improvise and overcome. Stop fretting about tommorow, it will come as it will despite your nail-biting.
Maybe a comet or Volcanic catastrophe will throw us to the stone age or further before that and you worries will be just so much wasted energy.

Answer 3

The gas molecules are nearer jointly and the gas temperature is raised by ability of the artwork of compression, till the compressed gas is undergone a warmth exchanger to eliminate the warmth.

Answer 4

Everybody would go back to farming in the fields, with horses and mules. Without fuel no stores to buy food from, no nothing.

Answer 5

i'd ride my bike or walk alot more. Electric technology would finally be released to the public, but at incredible prices, horses would become popular again

Answer 6

One of my 4 vehicles wouldn't run. (The other 3 are ethanol capable)

Answer 7

wow
No more traffic jams
people would have to work near their home and not travel 100 miles to get to work.
no more concerts
no more food
no more lumber for houses
no more pollution
WOW

Answer 8

People would walk

Answer 9

you can afford that corvette you always wanted!

Answer 10

we would make electric cars!!!!!!!!