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#1 of 4 What will the future of cars be like? What will we be driving in 10 years? by roadracer1907 Dec 27, 2007 (11:30 am)
Is the future really hybrid or hydrogen? Will the electric car take off? Is bio-diesel or e-85 the answer? Personally I think that hybrids are over hyped. I would love an all electric car but they need better batteries. What do you think we will be driving in 10 years? I’m still waiting for flying cars, but I don’t think that will happen in 10 years.
#2 of 4 From what I see, The Hydrogen Fuel Cell is the future. by mechaengine Feb 23, 2008 (9:24 am)
I think that Hydrogen Fuel Cells are the answer to getting our vehicles off hydrocarbon fuels. The technology already exists to make our nation completely energy independent of Arab oil. We just have too much powerful vested interest in our nation and in the world that don't want to see a "Hydrogen Economy" take off.    Most of the misnomers associated with using Hydrogen fuel to power our cars is that the cost of producing Hydrogen in quantities large enough to remove our dependence on oil is so high, and the methods of producing the hydrogen almost as pollutant, that we might as well burn gasoline. The thing that most people tend to forget about this is that fuel cells are 3 times as efficient as an internal combustion engine. So you need 1/3 the amount of energy to travel the same distance in a car powered by a fuel cell. This means that if I were to run my vehicle on Hydrogen, using a fuel cell, I could buy my fuel for about $1.35 per gallon of Gas equivalent.    So why haven't fuel Cells hit the market? Well, already several of the major car manufacturers are doing research into building cars powered by fuel cells. But one of the biggest problems with fuel cells today is that they, like batteries, degrade over time, and they also are very expensive to replace.    Interestingly though, one researcher by the name of Dr. Roger Billings has a fuel cell that over comes the problem of the degradation of the cells with time. His fuel cells will last over hundreds of thousands of hours, and in one particular experiment he ran in the nineties he had his fuel cells running constantly, non-stop, for 7 years. You can learn more about his research and his accomplishments in Hydrogen Energy by going to www.billingsenergy.com or www.rogerbillings.info    So the technologies exist. There is just too much opposition to seeing them get implemented. What I think will happen though, because of this, is that Hydrogen will catch on not by some act of Congress (we already know how much oil lives there), but rather through the free enterprise system. Through private businesses and entrepreneurs taking on the nich markets and eventually the big market of powering our vehicles.

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