rjdmmfl1 wrote:
ur right, alternative energy is a dumb idea.. why would anyone not want to continue our slave like dependence on foreign oil?
Hussain wrote:
i heard somewhere that they use oil to make most of the electricity we use so even if we go to an all electric system, we'll still use oil to make the electricity. if we go hydrogen powered, we need electricity to split the hydrogen from the oxygen (H20). maybe if we used solar energy to power the electricity to make the hydrogen energy? idk, i'm no expert at this... just bored smoking hookah at my friends house and we started talking about random s*** and thought about all this lol
Hussain, when you plug something into your electrical outlet at home, 70% of that energy comes from Natural Gas. So yes, it's still a fossil fuel. This is PART of why Electric Cars = Fail.
The other part has to due with the fact that in order to re-charge a electric car, you need to have a place to charge it (aka - a garage). Only people with houses have garages, yet the best place to own a electric car is in an urban city, yet majority of people in urban cities (like myself) don't have garages, we park on the street. Why are they better for Urban cities, because you typically aren't going to go faster than 40mph on a local street, plus you won't be traveling more than 175 miles (the typical range of a electric cars' batteries). Yes, this # will get better... but I still refer to my first point that electricity still is in actuality.... a fossil fuel. The BY FAR worst thing about an electric car is the fact that once you've driven that 175 miles and drained the battery... you will need to recharge it for about 17 HOURS to refill it. This would require someone to own 2, one to use, and one to recharge and keep swapping between the two during the week if they use that car to commute to work.
Forget about going on a road-trip in an electric car. You wouldn't get very far, and if you're low on battery, it's not like you can pull over to a station and re-charge in 5 mins and you'd be back on the road...
Again, Electric Car = Fail.
Hydrogen cars I think are the future. Problem is, it's going to take a long time to switch Gas stations to Hydrogen Stations through the US and other parts of the world. I know right now, there is a region of them in LA for people who are currently testing the new Hydrogen cars, like the Honda FCX Clarity. That thing is amazing (tech wise, not visually aesthetically wise).