Since the first natural gas and alternative energy (non-ethanol, which is a wasteful fuel) powered automobiles were first used – how long will it be from today when we can say there are no more gasoline powered vehicles?

when people become more educated and understand that energy has to come from somewhere. Where’s the energy gonna come from for electric cars. The only source right now that is abundant enough is the burning of fossil fuels, so that alleviates no problem. Natural gas still gives off green house gas but it can be produced in small quantities from garbage, so once again it is a resource that has limited quantities. Same with hydrogen technology, you have to use energy to get the hydrogen, and like i said the only resource available enough to do that on a wide scale is fossil fuels. We can’t burn coal to produce hydrogen from hydrolysis. That doesn’t help anything, in fact it is worse because of energy transformation losses. We need to base our energy off of other energy as in solar, wind, nuclear, etc. first before we can think implement this technology on a wide scale

Right now we need to be concerned with what we have. Conventional engines are by far not as efficient as they should be. Smaller displacement, coupled with high compression, turbo’s, direct injection, diesel are tools we need to implement to save gas. Also hybrid technology is another useful efficiency tool we need to use. It uses the energy from the car slowing and can store it and then use it for forward motion later. Using these technologies we should be able to boost efficiencies close or over 50%

Welcome to my blog. My name is Robert Stonehill and I am an Energy Engineer. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Solar Energy and more specifically Solar Panels. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.