Do you think we will ever get alternative feul?

Question

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/251007war_costs?pg=5

With the amount of money that we have spent on the Iraq war, we could have replaced every car on the road with an ethanol powered car...nine times over. Think of that, we could almost cure our addiction to oil. Of course there would still be planes and helicopters that need oil, but most of the oil used in the U.S. is by cars.


And sooner or later, the oil will run out on earth, it is only a finite material. Do you think we will ever get another source of energy?

Answer 1

Eventualluy, but it will come kicking and screaming

Answer 2

I have to agree, the materials are out there to replace oil, but the government cannot regulate them to make money; therefore, they will not be used at this time......ethanol, would not work very well....I do not think....other opinions may differ....as I do not know too many ways to get it other than corn.....I am sure there are others but making it with corn.....it would drive up other prices, because it would take so much to make enough to run our vehicles that anything else made with corn, i.e. cereal, corn meal, canned corn, anything else in the store (too many to mention) would go through the roof, so we would not be able to go to the store......not to meantion, we do not have enough land to plant enough corn over the long term............

However, there are many resources....I am not sure where you find it at, but I saw a special on television where a gentleman had created an alternative out of burning just household items.......and contained whatever it is you do...I do not know all the fancy terminology....but he was refining synthetic oil for approximately $20 a barrel and the government would not even talk to him about it....NOW WHAT ABOUT THAT CRAP???????????

Answer 3

No.

Chemical energy = solar energy (usually).
Fossil fuel = solar energy.
Hydroelectric (water) energy = solar energy.
Wind energy = solar energy.
Geothermal energy = heat energy from Earth's interior. Clean, but very little used.
Nuclear energy = mucho problems regarding safety and waste.

Hydrogen cell energy is nothing more than converting one form of energy to another. Does nothing to obtain energy, just carts it around. However it does reduce combustion and therefore CAN reduce CO2... but NOT if fossil fuels were burned to get the energy in the first place!

So nearly ALL of our energy is either nuclear or solar in origin. Geothermal power is too small a percentage to consider.

You should also remember that you lose quite a bit of energy each time energy is converted from form to form.

Edit: Yes, I'm aware fossil fuel is not the same thing as solar power. But please, people, try to remember HOW the fossil fuel GOT there! It was bio-organic, therefore it was ORIGINALLY solar power - just stored in the Earth as coal and oil.

Answer 4

I don't know about "feul", but fuel, definitely, YES ! Hydrogen will be somewhere in the present solution, especially once gasoline hits $20 plus/ gal. There is plenty of water to produce it from, and when it burns (combusts ?), it turns back to water. Very clean fuel source (water) and product (water). No "greenhouse effects" (global warming), or additional atmospheric pollutants.

Answer 5

If we start now, invest and work feverishly, make it #1 priorty, set the goal we might get it in 20 years time.
Note: We had the oil crisis 27 years ago and obviously learned NOTHING. Had we taken action...we wouldn't be in this mess now would we? Question is will we learn from this one?

Our best hope now is to elect Mitt Romney for president. Think about it.

Answer 6

People are to lazy and they just wanna waste waste waste. I mean we are even too lazy to change to the metric system when its the easiet thing ever. I mean it would be great if some people would learn from just looking at the facts but some people learn only when its too late and others never learn at all. Us as the people created the damage and we seem to want to complete it as well.

Answer 7

we have had other energy technologies for 50 years but people in power do not want us to have it...

steorn is the newest inventor of free energy that is impossible and our govt will not even give a patent because it is impossible

hint hint..

Answer 8

supply and demand will give us alternative fuels when the cost of oil get to far out of control. Its basic Macro economics

Answer 9

I really hope so! I'm not sure exactly yet what I think it will be, but I hope they come up with something efficient soon.

Answer 10

Put congress on another planet so they can't interfere or screw things up, and you'll be amazed how manygood things will happen.

Answer 11

You see that they have found a REALLY cheap way of getting hydrogen? VERY stoked about it as hydrogen vehicles only exhaust as it were is water.