Your Questions About Solar Generators For Home Use
Mark asks…
What is the best alternative energy source?
some energy sources could be nuclear(most promising in my opinion), wind power, solar, and others.
admin answers:
It kinda depends on the destination of the energy. For homes, Nuclear is still a long, long way from being ideal – what do we do with the waste which will remain toxic for the next 250 000 years? It may not produce greenhouse gases, but what it does produce is being conveniently forgotten….
Wind and solar have a lot going for them…there are other things too like Hydroelectric power generation – my home state of Tasmania (in Australia) is almost completely reliant on non-greenhouse-gas-producing Hydro power.
As far as cars go…there’s biodiesel, hydrogen fuel cells and water….YES, Water….There’s been a thing called a “Brown’s Gas Generator” around for a long time….a simple way of “cracking” the hydrogen component from oxygen in water….
One of the main things we as a species need to do is consume less of everything – energy included!!! We need to make a radical shift in our lifestyles and thinking patterns as we are not living within our means at the moment!
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Hope this goes a little way towards helping!
Love and Light,
Jarrah
George asks…
What do you think is the most creative idea for an Alliterative Fuel Vehicle?
– Electrics have problems with recharge time and distance limits.
– Hybrids are nice but still use gas. Better fuel?
– Bio-diesel is ok but can we create enough oil?
– BMW is using Hydrogen but it is costly to produce and dangerous.
So Yahoo what are your creative ideas. Thanks for your answers in advance.
I have two ideas:
1. A different kind of Hybrid car. Human / Electric. Batteries run the motor but the car only runs if a person is pedaling to spin a generator to feed the batteries. It should also be able to be plugged in for over night recharging.
Solves two problems: Distance and weight loss.
2. Bio-diesel / Electric Hybrid with solar panels and a plug.
Electric as the main source. Plug in is more efficient that burning gas for recharging. Solar, why not use it to recharge when possible. Bio-diesel because when you have to go to it, it still burns cleaner than gas.
So again what are your ideas. Just curious. Thanks.
OK, I get it people I made a spelling error and forgot to spell check. Please remember “Let those who have never made a spelling mistake, cast the first bit of sarcasim!” Thanks
admin answers:
Electric cars are getting better when it comes to mileage per hour of recharging. But they still require energy, namely electric energy. Which begs the question “what do you think is the best idea for alternative production of electricity?” Maybe solar generation will be made more efficient over the next decade if both business and government invest enough in the technology.
Hybrids are a good stepping stone. It’s still some gasoline, but at least you get superb mileage and consume less petro.
Hydrogen is a rather stupid idea since it is not only dangerously explosive, but takes more energy to initially produce than it releases when burned. I’m not saying there is no role for hydrogen fuel, just that it can never be a major energy staple.
I think biofuel, especially cellulose ethanol, is the most practical long-term solution to our fuel energy issues. Critics will insist that ethanol doesn’t work, that its production consumes more oil energy than the bio energy we get out of it. But that is only because we use mediocre biofuel crops (such as corn) and we produce it by more primitive means.
Brazil, which uses the “old production” method still gets a strong net energy gain on its sugarcane ethanol, mainly because sugarcane is a better crop for producing “old” ethanol than corn. But the “new” way of producing alcohol from fiber rather than sugar could increase gallons-per-acre yield more than twofold from Brazil’s sugarcane and make ethanol a truly feasible fuel. In temperate climates with distinct winter seasons, switchgrass and hempstalk would be excellent “new” ethanol crops since sugarcane isn’t hardy and the new method produces far more fuel anyway.
Even with alternative fuel we still have to cut down on the total miles that society drives by encouraging more carpooling, mass transit, and opportunities to work/shop closer to home.
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