Why hasn't anyone invented an alternate power source that's cheap for automobiles?
With the rising oil prices and energy prices why hasn’t anyone come up with a cheap alternative? Fuel cells are expensive. And using natural gas or ethanol is just another delay to a clean cheap energy source. Are there any inventions out there?
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May 28th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
dont listen to the crazy "the man is holding us back" people. it’s just that invention only comes with a major breakthrough, then technology platues for a while and more advances arent made until people are motivated enough to find them. the people that need to be motivated are the people who pay the scientist. and until the 70′s there was absolutely no need to do anything else. then only in the last 7-8 years have we realized just how destructive fossil fuel burning is on the planet. give it a few more years. we are just now optimising the technology we’ve been using.
there is also the problem of supply. say i make it so that cars run on say pudding pops. well, i now have to have pudding pop pumps next to gas pumps. with as much money as big oil makes that kind of transformation would still be a crippling economic blow.
simply put there hasnt been a real NEED for alternitive fuel till relitively recently so the advances are still on the horizon. they are already starting though. coal plants are now starting to use recently dead organic materials i cant find a website at the moment to describe it better, but if u mix i think it was barley and wood chips to coal you of corse use less coal per burn and therefore release less carbon that the earth has locked away for centuries. I think the department of energy seems to be the best site to read about stuff like that.