What would be our best source of renewable energy? And how will we replace or fuel the automobile with it?

Answer 1

There are many good sources of renewable energy, such as wind (onshore and offshore), solar, and wave power. In order to fuel cars with renewable energy, you need to make electric vehicles which can recharge on the electric grid, or plug-in electric hybrids. There are already some electric cars which can do this:

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and plug-in hybrids will be available starting in about 3 years.

Answer 2

Solar Energy. This can be solar driven winds, to drive windmills, or solar radiation energy converted to electricity with solar cell panels.
Also, walking and bicycles and even motorcycles.
The British sell a motorcycle powered by Hydrogen Gas and the German BMW 7 has a switch to use Hydrogen gas instead of gasoline. Europeans are marching ahead.
New solar cells from Silicon Valley promise the highest energy conversion efficiency. It will on the market by next year.
As Hydrogen gas becomes available, the increase in gasoline price will drive the use of Hydrogen.
Gasoline stations may make Hydrogen, using surplus electric power, when available, and stay in business while gasoline sales drop, until they are banned.
Oil and Natural Gas will probably be used by Electric Power Plants in the cleanest form possible.
We have to use some the oil and gas for a few years.

Answer 3

I"m glad to see that many people are seeing that solar electric is the future. I agree, but then I live in the sun belt. Other parts of the country (World) will need different power sources. Hydro-electric is clean. Wind turbines can be a partial answer. Tides and waves can be harnessed to generate electricity with no pollution. Bio-fuels like ethanol and bio-diesel are renewable but they still produce carbon when you burn them. What we need is a power source that does not produce carbon dioxide. So far solar electric is the only one.

Answer 4

relies upon on the alternative which you're speaking approximately. I even have additionally considered that. yet continually verify the source... have been the authors tied to the oil marketplace; a technique or the different?! i replaced into watching something approximately this on discovery and that they've been asserting that there are stable organic gases locked under the oceans which will meet our ability desires while we deplete the oil. i think of that economics have a extensive impression on why we are no longer waiting to get removed from oil right this moment. The technologies are available, acceptance and adoption are yet another tale. yet with issues like the hot gasoline cells (that in simple terms emit water) popping out... a minimum of we are making some progression. although, i might extremely prefer to confirm technological advancements in photograph voltaic generated ability... a great number of unfastened ability hitting us on a daily basis! "If purely there replaced right into a trend that we could channel that ability into the flux capacitor!"

Answer 5

Ethanol. We can already fuel automobiles with it. All cars, flex fuel or not, can run safely on up to 40% ethanol. I have been using it for 2 years now, problem-free in my non-flex fuel ford focus.

Answer 6

The best renewable fuel is the one that nature recycles with plants. Plants is what produced the fossil fuels . It is plant fossil ,not animal. Any fuel that produces CO2 is recycled by plants . This makes fossil fuel as the only fuel that is recycled for us by the plants. As long as it is this way it is the only fuel for us .

Answer 7

You are so focused on the automobile. It is not a necessity of life. You can walk, ride a bike, ride a horse. None use gasoline. The automanufacturers are the ones who are freakin.

Answer 8

People have their favorites, but....

This is a big problem. We'll need all our tools. Nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels.

The jury is still out on whether hydrogen or batteries are a better way to get power to cars. One idea is batteries for the city, hydrogen for long trips.

Answer 9

hemp, easy to grow and process