When it comes to any kind of alternative fuel, why do they act like ostriches with heads buried deep?

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Strange question ha perhaps? However, civilizations rise and fall with far less than questions like this one. As a very angry renegade scientist who has tried on many occasions to reeducate the somewhat dumb public, I have failed miserably. I have countless web site bogs that had been for the most part ignored the last few years. In addition, by the grace of the Lord I discovered this yahoo answers web site, which has literally changed my perspective on certain aspects of those Internet based communications. The ad claims" millions of online people to answer your questions" sometimes my questions are technical other times their religious. Now this particular question has burden my heart for many long years now so please listen to the following with an open mind.

To the millions I say this. Stop listening to those over educated fools who tell you that we only have petroleum products to rely on. Now listen? Hydrogen and its counterpart Oxygen simply produced by inexpensive solar electrolysis will fulfill all of our energy needs. We can use it to heat and to cool our homes and generate all our private electrical needs too. You wanna answer this question correctly then it's time to get the word out and tell everyone you know. Big bad oil has gone out of its way to completely suppress this ever growing hydrogen fuel technology for years. Moreover, one more thing of interest that I personally feel is quite prudent at this time. I address it to you, the hard-working taxpaying American citizens who have needlessly been sacrificing your standard of life. Yes suffering in a sense due to the high price of gasoline and diesel fuel. Those who manufacture these items will never embrace hydrogen unless it's foolishly wasted in an idiotic conveyance called a fuel-cell. In conclusion, it's time to embrace a cleaner future with our industry running full tilt once again. On a super flammable highly explosive fuel that produces absolutely no pollution whatsoever in its use.

Peace!!!

Answer 1

35 years as a Chemical Engineer

Answer 2

Politicians are bound to party positions so you won't always hear clear, analytical answers. The greater truth might be that if 280 million Americans and nearly 7 billion people worldwide all want a Western standard of living, there is simply too much of an energy demand to think that wind/solar alone can work in the near term. Market factors (gas/auto prices) help businesses to trend in non-fossil fuel directions. However, coal, oil, and nuclear will be required for quite some time unless people forego their modern lifestyles.



Additionally, we put population centers in illogical locations. Los Vegas is a great example of how people currently fight nature instead of working with it in an effort to reduce energy demands. It has no water and needs massive amounts of air conditioning. While our power needs are great, we continue to use much of our current energy unwisely. Expect energy costs to further push the development of rail, civil engineering, conservation, wind/solar/nuclear technology, etc.



Note: Hydrogen is currently produced by stripping methane. You can also reduce water to get it, but that process takes energy (solar as you mention). Done at scale I think it can be a part of the solution.

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All we can do is change what we ourselves do. Others will change when they see our example and listen to our sharing of the solution. Start producing hydrogen and using it. Help others do the same.



In my state of Michigan and because I have access to biomass resources, I am setting up a woodgas destructive distillation system and an ethanol still to take advantage of stored solar energy. The woodgas will be high in methane and hydrogen. The byproduct of wood ash can be reacted with scrap aluminum to generate hydrogen and an additive for the local cement company to aid setting in the colder months. The ethanol byproducts can be used for animal feed and plant food. In addition, I've built electrolyzers for hydrogen production as well as some other valuable compounds. My 9' diameter solar dish runs some chemical processes to generate hydrogen and produces some tasty bar-b-que meals. It's biggest use though is that it adds about 8000btu of solar heat energy to the home for many hours and saves me money.



Running a blend of 50/50 ethanol and gas in my unconverted non-flex fuel vehicle. Converted another car to a full flex fuel vehicle and we're going to add a hydrogen cold start system. Looking for a place now to open an ethanol station and conversion facility as my initial business enterprise and building tool to bring renewable energy to my neighborhood. Ethanol can be made from too many sources that would otherwise go to waste so I believe it's a great place to start. Especially considering how many liquid fueled vehicles are on the road currently. But hydrogen is the perfect fuel and way to store solar energy....it's a matter of finding a way to pay for it. Erickson, ran out of time and depended on the military industrial complex model of financing which just didn't compete with gas and the grid in the short sighted mind of the market.



Peace to you and thanks for listening.



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Pull yourself up from your own drudgery. Take some responsibility if you're so concerned. 'Big Bad' oil as you put, it hasn't stopped AGUA-LUNA from achieving his goals or any other company from providing affordable alternative energy resources. The point is, as long as people continue to buy internal combustion engines, manufacturers will continue to produce them. Where were you in the 70's? Remember the high cost of fuel then? Remember the gas guzzlers of that era? Remember what brought about the compact car? It was the public outlook, opinion and demand for smaller more efficient vehicles. Get with the program if you're so worried about the well being of society.

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Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.





Alternative Fuels, also known as non-conventional fuels, are any materials or substances that can be used as a fuel, other than conventional fuels. Conventional fuels include: fossil fuels (petroleum (oil), coal, propane, & natural gas), & also in some instances nuclear materials such as uranium. Some well known alternative fuels include biodiesel, ethanol, butanol, chemically stored electricity (batteries & fuel cells), hydrogen, methane, natural gas, vegetable oil, biomass, & peanut oil.



Now alternative (or renewable) energy is a little different…



Renewable energy flows involve natural phenomena such as sunlight, wind, tides & geothermal heat. Each of these sources has unique characteristics which influence how & where they are used.



Short but sweet that’s the specifics of it. If you’re interested in using some form of alternative fuel or renewable energy in your vehicle or home, feel free to contact me. I live 100% off the grid on alternative energy and have converted many vehicles to run on biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen and EV.



In fact I currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen and one car is EV. I offer step by step DIY guides to walk anyone threw the process if you’re interested. You can find them at



www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.





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Answer 6

There are plenty of techical issues that need to be beaten to make what you want to do a reality. Lets to some cocktail napkin math:



Something like 1.3 x 10^9 liters of gas are used in the US each day. This is about the same number of kg's of gas. One kg of hydrogen gas has about 2.75 the energy content of gas, so we would need to make 4.7 x 10^8 kgs of hydrogen. Takes about 60 kWh of electricity to make a kg of hydrogen using big commercial systems using electrolosis. So every day we would need to produce 2.84 x 10^13 kWh. Assuming we could get 6 hrs of sun each day avg you need to produce 4.7 terawatts (4.7 x 10^12 watts) of electrical power each of those twelve hours. If you can produce 10 watts/sq ft you would need 2.4 x 10^11 sq ft. This would mean a square about 100 miles on each side filled with panels.



To give a scale of this the total electrical output available to california (12% of the us population) is just 50 gigawatts, about 1% of this need



While not impossible it is a daunting task, not to mention storage, transport and handling. in 2007 3 gigawatts of solar panels were made worldwide approx, at this rate it would take 1000 years to get enough capacity to replace gas as a fuel with h2 just in the US.



To get there you need to create HUGE (world scale) new plants and technologies, current tech and investment is not even close to enough. It would need to be a worldwide effort, can't see it happening. I agree that we need to be going there but we need to explore new directions and methods and prepare for a 50 or 100 year process.

Answer 7

Most of the alternative fuels cost more energy to manufacture than U can get from it.

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Hydrogen requires electricity which requires generation generally using fossil fuels or nuclear or to a much lesser and expensive extent, solar. We will use it when and if it makes economic sense. Hydrogen has some benefits and some problems.

Answer 9

we need to spend money on fuel to fuel our economic

if every car is equipped with hho and reduce our oil use by 30%

then usa would go bankrupticy, it's the way it works



so best thing to do is spend more money, buy more gas

go usa