Alternative to fossil fuels?

Samatha Nicar: Biofuels (biohydrogen, bioethanol. biodiesel), or solar power.

Bryant Chaudhry: Bio-diesel is probably the most efficient currently, since the delivery system is already in place ( fueling stations ). It is only the near absence of cars which are designed to use it that hinders its becoming an actual replacement for gasoline/gasohol.

Lu Tiner: Solar or wind could be used to generate the electricity.

Coy Tapley: For almost every conceivable alternative to fossil fuels, even some that may not work, you can go through the index here: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory There are even articles on fossil fuels. My favorite alternative to make electricity is the solar chimney. It is essentially a solar concentrator that makes its own wind. Because it naturally stores heat it works day and night. A pilot plant was economical from the day it was built.2 The main expense is the chimney and this can be floated (3) or made using a vortex (4! .) Given cheap environmentally sound electricity in our grids it then becomes the "fuel" of choice for our transportation in electric vehicles. These can be many different types from the commonly discussed Battery Electric Vehicles. The best option would be the Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) also known as "electrified roadways." The electric platform has proven performance and environmental credentials. Induction pickups would make it safe and overall the cost would be less than lots of vehicles with expensive batteries. see:http://electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com/2...http://green.autoblog.com/2009/08/28/solar-roadway...http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/reynoldsf...http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=821...Show more

Arnulfo Seegars: everything

Nedra Oltz: The only way to answer your question is by considering an average because it might be possible to find a hybrid that was badly engineered or used in a way that didn't take advantage ! of the hybrid design. You also might find a diesel engineered! and used only for economy and to minimize pollution. But in general the hybrid if designed and used properly would be cleaner....Show more

Randolph Lozoya:

Rana Rudell: There are tons of them. It just depends how much more you want to spend for them and how much harder it is to find them.

Michel Mccaulley: There is many alternatives to fossil fuels. The one I see standing out for auto at least is electricity produced thru green means like wind power, geothermal, or power from the sun. Most likely a combination of many sources will be needed to ween us off of fossil fuels.

Nicolasa Henke: Human Excrement.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10881...

Rosalyn Olivera: energy is wasted with each conversion. charging a battery powered car means that you are converting electrical energy into chemical energy and back again. The waste depends how fast you are charging/ discharging it, and how much it cools before use. in bitter cold, a batt! ery can lose half its charge. I'd expect 50% - 70% of the energy is wasted. It's not so much efficient, as it is cost effective, only as long as most electricity comes from low cost sources like coal or nuclear. Hydrogen is made from natural gas, by a "reformer", which removes the carbon atoms and releases them as CO2, but without getting any usable energy . Hydrogen could be made by electrolyzing water, but electrolysing means : to connect wires to each end of a tank of water, and plug them in. Uses a lot of electricity. Unless congress repeals the second law of thermodynamics (which tells us that converting energy into other forms is wasteful) I don't expect Electric or hydrogen will ever be more affordable than it is right now. Converting electrical generation to wind and solar will be more expensive, not less. Subsidies only serve to conceal the true cost from dumb people....Show more

Hope Lundmark: Electric cars are battery operated no fuel needed. Fuel i! s only used as a supplemental power source in which case it would not b! e a truly 100% electric vehicle.

Rosalyn Olivera: coal will be 50% of the fuel, making electrict cars coal burners. AND no you can't just up and say, oh, there is a wind farm 2000 miles from my car, so its wind. It all goes on a grid, and its all mixed. You can't even say you pay extra for solar because not one solar energized electron makes it to your house.

Buster Exline: have you tried gatorade great fuel!

Kellie Waycott: The only one is hydrogen on demand cars from Japan. It's already in production. Water in and water vapor out. No pollution.

Idell Mulliniks: A thousand slaves pedalling bicycles connected to generators.

Rivka Killmer: Either way; battery, coal, corn, it will take natural resources to fuel a car. The same as gas. Our natural resources are not going to last forever.

Horace Escue: drinking too much so that you cannot drive.

Azalee Ahrendes: water,rubbish,electrics and soler power

Fritz Sisomphou: Every ! year your power company should send you a notice saying what your power is made of. Scroll down and you'll see one for PG&E (notice over half is carbon-free). http://www.pge.com/mybusiness/myaccount/explanatio...Here's one for Sacramento CA http://www.smud.org/en/community-environment/Docum...Now, if you're charging an electric car, you'll usually be charging at night. That means there won't be solar power, but that's a tiny fraction of the power mix. So whatever your power mix label says is probably pretty accurate. You can of course spend a little extra and buy renewable power, if you want....Show more

Dana Russian: Solar power, its renewable, as well as corn (I believe its called e-84 ethanol...but Im not positive.))

Rona Ising: Even though there is a lot of tons of them they are REALLY REALLY REALLY hard to find than a mineral...

Dorine Nurre: whether it be gas or electricity, it is going to take natural resources to fuel a car.

Davida Gisrie! l: Fuel for cars could include ethanol produced from nearly anything be! sides corn since corn is a terribly inefficient way to make ethanol. Compressed natural gas is already viable and less polluting than gasoline. Electric cars will likely run on batteries until we have a better storage means, possibly super-capacitors. They'd be charged from the grid which could include solar, wind and tidal power plants but we'd either need massive electrical storage for times when those sources don't suffice, or we could build geothermal, hydroelectric or nuclear power plants to fill the gap since those sources are always on.We could also develop solar power satellites in high Earth orbit which would mean they are never obscured by clouds and almost never by the Earth's shadow. We'd then use microwave or another transmission method to get that electricity to Earth stations. Without the atmosphere to reduce the energy such a satellite would be extremely efficient and would produce power at a small fraction of a coal-fired power plant once the initial costs ! are recovered....Show more

Amina Motzer:

Jannie Ariola: No, this expired on December 31, 2009. Here is a blog post addressing this tax credit from altfuelsnow.com:http://altfuelsnow.com/wordpress/2009/12/23/hurry-...Good luck!...Show more

Violette Vanek: Biofuels or oil which is obtained from the Jatropha fruit.The seeds in this Fruit is 37% oil and do not produce very much carbon dioxide !!! It is already very commonly used in India .

Irving Jordahl: are you joking? a hybrid

Ninfa Aronica: I would have to say algae diesel. Diesel engines already exist and can be purchased anywhere, and they get better mileage than a gas engine.The infrastructure is in place. Diesel pumps are in most gas stations.Algae creates oxygen when growing. This offsets the carbon produced when burning.Algae can be grown anywhere and use brackish water.The cost of building plants is far less than drilling for oil.The only downside is that the cost per gallon is high ri! ght now....Show more

Particia Thorton: It could be any of the mea! ns we have for generating electricity. Coal, oil, natural gas, hydro-electric, nuclear are all currently in use. Wind generated electricity is becoming more common. Maybe someday, photo-voltaic will be added to the mix.

Susan Rambo: Don't feel too bad, the golf cart sellers were gaming the credits, and really jacking the price on the NEV models to where you were still paying for the cart. Part of the law said you had to buy from certain dealers, not just anyone, and you had to pay full retail that was made to where you paid a bit more than you would have before the tax break.It's still cheaper to buy a used or refurbished cart, make it street legal--lights (including blinkers-brakes), and rear view mirror. The kits cost about $200. The cart will cost you about $900, the Club Car is probably the easiest to convert. The Easygo and Yamaha just below. It will cost about $200 to title and inspect. For a little extra you can also jack it up and put ATV wheels on it. A ne! w NEV these dealers were charging were anywhere from $4000 to $7500....Show more

Luke Gacusan: Anything that can be burned or stored to create energy. The only reason none of these are used is because oil is big business, corrupt and pay off corrupt governments which is pretty much all government. Even the U.S.

Jesse Pirieda: Well, if it were up to me, I'll make it so you charge your car from home. However, it would come straight from a solar panel or wind turbine. It depends on the area of the home, the resources.