because your still dealing with fossil fuels

hydro-fusion will be something to watch in the future for homes, transportation and such..

dun no whats more funny, me making sense or them understanding it !!

Splitting up water into hydrogen and oxygen is massively ineffective right now though. But like IPlural said, diesel = fossil fuel = limited supply.

First off let me tell everyone that I am a bicycle freak. My expensive Kona tells the story. If everyone rode bikes the world would be a better place but since people love polluting the enviroment by driving, my voice is useless.

I have been a fan of anything that DOES not use fossil fuels for transportation and energy needs for years. My bicycle does not pollute and runs on water (when I drink it) I am not as into the movement against fossil fuels as greenpeace and clubs like them for one simple reason:

I like nuclear power.

Somewhere down the road everyone of us is going to have to face the fact that we have screwed up the world by burning fossil fuels and by that time it will be to late.

Please also understand I have a car, I drive it maybe once a week because here in oregon gas is about $1.90 a gallon for regular unleaded so I am forced to park my beast and ride my bike.

I do not like the hydogen powered cars but the new hybrids and other alternative fuel cars look promising. ANYTHING is better than fossil fuels. And by the way, a gasoline motor is more efficent and pollutes more than a diesel.

pollutes less than a diesel I meant in the last paragraph

Where do you think that the futures drinking water is going to come from? Certainly not rivers or lakes because they will be too poluted.

When a person gets thirsty all they will have to do is go outside and run around with their mouth open.

Such an optimist thinking the fossil fuels will run out before the govts destroy mankind.

Only in Sci-Fi does the govt make the world a better place.

EEVAssoc. web site links page http://www.eaaev.org/eaalinks.html , very interesting reads..

I think that the current fuel cell technology is where we should be headed, but with diesel instead of gas as the fuel supply. For example, a diesel engine in a Jetta gets about 49 mpg (I had one, so I can verify it is true) whereas the same car with a gas engine (at very best) will get 30 mpg.

So if you were using diesel while cruising (which is where it is fuel efficient) and the fuel cell around town, then you would have a lot less use of oil products (plus, diesel is a lot less refined) and would have a lot less pollution.

Current diesel engines have to pass the same pollution controls as gas engines. The problem with making more pollution free vehicles? The mileage gets worse, so you end up using more fuel (not good). (My husbands works at a very large diesel engineering company, so I know a lot about the current EPA standards for diesels...)

kona0197, my house is 55 miles from work, how do I bicycle to it? The closest town is 6 miles from my house, how do I get there on my bike and buy groceries? Not everyone lives in the same situations.

I think Fred Flintstone had the right idea, just poke holes in the bottom of your car, and get everyone to run.

hmmmm... I am going to hav to do more research on this subject. I just find it funny that diesel seems to work better for fuel economy. but I also read that diesel fuel cost more... but that only seems to be because of the supply/demand rule.

I like SUV's but I don't like the mileage AT ALL. Then I saw the perfect one... the volvo XC 90. (15/20).

Still horrible but usually when I drive I coast allot and the last time driving a suv, I got--- drum roll... 18/24!! (its all in the wrist... urrm foot)

But that is still not good enough. what I really don't get is how come there can't be more hybrid cars. ESPECAILLY in suv's since there is so much space in the car for it? Why can't there be a generator on the car that uses the cars motion to generate power?

I guess there is just no simple answer.

Why can't there be a generator on the car that uses the cars motion to generate power?

Oh, they can do that, but it would slow you down. Then you would have to use extra energy to maintain speed, etc.

Actually kona, they've solved many of the problems that plagued older diesels. More research is needed. Right now the issue is that because America has such a large existing base of gas stations, our future vehicles will run on gas in some way, augmented by addatives or electricity. Europe is in a similar situation with diesel.