Can any 'Green' energy top gasoline?

wildchild

wildchild

You always here from the anti-American left that there is this big conspiracy with oil. When you break it down, just like the rest of the stuff that the left pushes, it is total nonsense.

So think about it like this. I can go to a gas station pay $30 to $40 and have a full tank of gas in less than 5 minutes and be on the road for about 400 miles. What out there can compete with that?
 
30 to 40 for a full tank of gas???

(Okay, I can do that too, if I start pumping with the tank over half full.)
 
BSAM said:
30 to 40 for a full tank of gas???

(Okay, I can do that too, if I start pumping with the tank over half full.)
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Yeah, the current price I am paying is $2.59 which gets me over 15 gallons with 40 dollars.

The point is, there is not 'Green' energy that is going to deliver at that price and convenience.
 
Can any 'Green' energy top gasoline?

On a energy-per-unit-volume basis? No.

On a long term basis that can be sustained? Yes.

Hydrocarbon was a good energy source for civilization as it transitioned from agrarian to industrial production. It enabled the industrial revolution. It enabled our transportation system.

Now that the world population has grown to vast numbers it is not the winner going forward. Something cleaner must be utilized. Fusion and hydrogen are obvious choices as both produce inert waste products.
 
don't forget algae, it doesn't seem that clean when you burn it, but they tell me when you figure how clean it is to produce, it cancels out the dirty burning process. I don'tknow that much about it, but I know a lot about what algae can do for you (like most who have ever raised fish.)
 
ipatent said:
Gasoline is tough to beat as a mobile energy source. Geopolitics make developing alternatives a good idea.
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that's why I like algae. Because you can convert and the average Joe at the pump won't know the difference. Just like ethonol. Same chevy truck, same gas station, same gas, just a different way of producing it. ooooohhh, that's got to make the anti capitalist energy control freaks pissed. Of course, we wouldn't need algae if we hadn't started on crude.

who knows about hydrogen? looks to good to be true

they are also doing some cool things with micro nuclear reactors. These are reactors so small they look like your local electrical switching station and are designed to be built in small neghborhoods which want to be off the grid (like rich gated communities.) (you can only guess how the so called environmentalists will feel about a new energy source with practically zero co2 and no affect on global warming will react when they discover only the rich can afford to have a new clean burning nuclear reactor in their new gated community.)
 
Rapid charging batteries are becoming a reality. Electric cars that can fast-swap battery packs are here... Solar is the way forward. Turn the highways and buildings into solar generators. Oil is like 18th century stuff, Steampunk anybody?
 
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