which ones will dominate the market after they kill off petrol
Biodiesel, 'nuff said lads
True enough. Up till 30’s or so all the cars ran on fuel made of industrial hemp, and it’s not like we can’t adapt to that again.
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options
-biodiesel
-lpg
-ethanol based fuel
ah, but youre forgetting the true answer:
The collective will of the people.
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Biodiesel is gonna probably win because of the compatibility with current engines and at the moment most space efficient farms (cellulosic biodiesel)
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Sorry for double posting but people will be most willing to accept biodiesel because already works and they would not nice much change except for a fuel price. Gasoline people just will need to such up to high fuel prices or buy diesel cars but that’s true of pretty much all of these
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no, cars will be powered by harnessing the will of society. the more will the nation has, the quicker the cars will go.
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Bio-diesel, ethanol, and electric depending on what type of car and the region.
Hydrogen while plentiful has bigger technical problems and is very energy intensive to produce the pure gas.
Edit: Fossil fuels will be around for quite some time, the above are already around as blends.
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If we’re gonna go this way cars can be powered by idiocy. Hook a pump up to the US congress building and you have a close to infinite supply
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Does that mean that if I play youtube videos in a car and scroll down to the comment section I can tripple my range?
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Due to how unstable idiocy is naturally it is not recommended to use common idiocy and only the purest bullshit man can make
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Seems pretty clear that it will be electric, so long as batteries don’t start getting more expensive (due to lack of component materials). As it stands now, methanol or a similar easy to produce combustion fuel is the best solution for lightweight, long range vehicles (e.g. sports cars) without using fossil fuels, because of the unavoidable weight of known battery technology and hydrogen drive systems (AFAIK on the latter).
Electric won’t last at all. Many nations have no access to clean, renewable energy. So, therefore, Electric Power won’t work.
Bio Fuel is also pretty bad, As you have to for-go food production space to create fuel.
Hydrogen would work, but is very heavy. very, very heavy.
So they don’t have access to sun, wind or water currents? Even for those countries they can buy power from neighbours that do.
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No, you will not. Hemp actually nutritions the soil where as corn for example drains it to the point that you can’t use the same soil for corn two seasons in a row. This means you can grow hemp one season and then grow corn in that place the other, alternating between the two. As a matter of fact this was the exact method of growing back in the day.
Also do not ask me about how the hell I know this farming stuff…
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I must’ve been told wrong then by my science and geography teachers.
All they want is for us not to grow weed!
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My take on it:
It’s going to be a combination. I did a project on this exact topic and came to the conclusion that Hydrogen was the ultimate goal, but electric offered the best short term solution, and that no one single power type would be dominant for some time.
Both have their benefits and drawbacks, which roughly boil down to:
Electric - Pros: Very, very cheap; Technology here now and still improving; Very low maintainence | Cons: Poor range; heavy; environmental issues with electricity production and batteries; charge times
Hydrogen FCV - Pros: Will eventually have much greater range than petrol; Incredibly good for the environment; Better for HGVs than electric - Cons: Years away from being affordable; Storage issues; Complicated maintenance; Where we source that Hydrogen and the costs of this
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Everyone has, but not everyone has enough. Usage of solar and wind energy is limited by space and weather. Water currents are not infinite nor omnipresent - for example Denmark would have a serious problem in using water current energy.
Being dependent on other country’s resources is not a good thing. Nor an economical one. You see, it’s a matter of economy - even if some countries have the natural possibilities to use renewable energy, they might not be able to afford investments needed to start using it. Non-renewable energy is used because it’s often cheaper or because it’s more easily obtainable in a certain country, so there’s no need for buying energy from anyone abroad.
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