Alternative Fuel Cars

[Pondlife]

Wind energy and wave power are all well and good, but they can't cope with the post-Corrie kettle switch on, because you cannot guarantee when the wind blows.

This is what places like Dinorwig are for. It's essentially storing energy for peak times.

[VectraMan]

Wind energy and wave power are all well and good, but they can't cope with the post-Corrie kettle switch on, because you cannot guarantee when the wind blows.

Perhaps the answer is to stagger Corrie broadcasts across the country.

Nuclear is the answer, but not acceptable to the Greens.

I caught the end of that telly programme the other week with greens admitting that perhaps they were wrong to object to nuclear power as it would mean far less carbon emissions. And also saying that perhaps GM crops is a better option than using an ever increasing amount of the planet for farming to feed the ever increasing population.

As they said on TopGear, hydrogen power is best because it works like a normal car. Battery cars will never work because of the recharge time. Is hydrogen really that much more dangerous than petrol? I imagine if your hydrogen tank explodes it'll be a quicker and less painful death.

[darmstadt]

Buy yourself a wind turbine and a giant fan.

Look a bit silly with a big fan sticking out the back of my trousers

[TimberWolf]

Is hydrogen really that much more dangerous than petrol? I imagine if your hydrogen tank explodes it'll be a quicker and less painful death.

It's expensive and tricky to store. You either have to freeze near to absolute zero (expensive) or compress it (bulky and not as energy dense as a liquid). The conversions involved aren't particularly efficient either.

[SupremeSpod]

Alternative energy fuel cars are not currently a viable replacement for petrol, diesel or bio-fuel cars. As a blind alley of technology, they're interesting but ultimately pointless. They're "tied to the grid" and Fuel Cell cars are still tied by dint of the need to electrolyse water to produce highly dangerous Hydrogen.

Oil isn't running out, it's just getting harder (and therefore more costly - ask BP!) to extract.

Wind energy and wave power are all well and good, but they can't cope with the post-Corrie kettle switch on, because you cannot guarantee when the wind blows.

Nuclear is the answer, but not acceptable to the Greens. That's why British Energy was sold to EDF - the French know how to build Nuclear power stations, whilst the British patently do not.

Alternatively, Carbon Capture from the coal-fired stations - another pipe dream. "Pump CO2 into the old Gas fields - brilliant, Dr. Watson."

I don't have the answer - but then, nobody does. Alternative fuel cars are not part of it.

Find a method of converting CO2 to CH4 or C2H6. Sorted.

[MarillionFan]

Well thank you all for the invention of a sail driven car with a backup engine full of piss, that was very helpful. In the meantime back in the real world at my Internet free client site the original question was.

Has anyone tried out or have experience of any existing AF vehicles preferably not fueled by bedwetting?

[MarillionFan]

Well thank you all for the invention of a sail driven car with a backup engine full of piss, that was very helpful. In the meantime back in the real world at my Internet free client site the original question was.

Has anyone tried out or have experience of any existing AF vehicles preferably not fueled by bedwetting?

[SupremeSpod]

Well thank you all for the invention of a sail driven car with a backup engine full of piss, that was very helpful. In the meantime back in the real world at my Internet free client site the original question was.

Has anyone tried out or have experience of any existing AF vehicles preferably not fueled by bedwetting?

No.

[SupremeSpod]

Well thank you all for the invention of a sail driven car with a backup engine full of piss, that was very helpful. In the meantime back in the real world at my Internet free client site the original question was.

Has anyone tried out or have experience of any existing AF vehicles preferably not fueled by bedwetting?

No.

[kandr]

Well thank you all for the invention of a sail driven car with a backup engine full of piss, that was very helpful. In the meantime back in the real world at my Internet free client site the original question was.

Has anyone tried out or have experience of any existing AF vehicles preferably not fueled by bedwetting?

Right, now don't pre-judge this, I have an idea I call the tulipmobile...