[bentstrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pea-jay', 'I')f small scale biodiesel brewing does not pan out for me, the only thing in my gas tank will be cobwebs.

Plus don't forget folks, a complete crash will deprive most of your vehicles of spare parts, especially techno parts.

Old diesel trucks may the best route to go in my opionion.

[Licho]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bas', 'n')atural gas is said to peak only a couple of years after oil......

[Franco]

I think a good lot of research will have to be carried out on new fuels and ways to burn them into our engines.
First in that line of thinking comes to my mind: Natural Gas.
I think that big trucks criss-crossing the USA could run on Liquefied Natural Gas,provided they are fitted with thermaly insulated tanks to hold the stuff at -161°C.
Remember that passing from its liquid phase to gas,CH4 expands 600 times.
The engine will run on the vapours which are 98% pure CH4.
This should be tried now.

Furthermore I think we should dig a lot more into engines which could operate on different quality of fuel.
This has already been succefully done for the military during the french war in Algeria,in 1960,on the 100 tons Berliet truck,which was supllied either by Diesel-oil or algerian crude oil straight from the oil-field.

I can't believe in H2 Fuel-Cells until we have a liquid fuel from which we can produce H2 through an on board converter at the speed and rate necessary to cover every fluctuating demands of road driving.
We are now light years away from that point.
But it sells so well on forums of dreamers!
The germans had a very reasonable approach to H2 Fuel-Cells.
They proposed to fit them on their boats ferrying tourists along the Lorelei.
It would have been a good promoting move to show the best side of the new technology.
I don't know if they have done it.

[baldwincng]

Franco said

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')irst in that line of thinking comes to my mind: Natural Gas.
I think that big trucks criss-crossing the USA could run on Liquefied Natural Gas,provided they are fitted with thermaly insulated tanks to hold the stuff at -161°C.
Remember that passing from its liquid phase to gas,CH4 expands 600 times.
The engine will run on the vapours which are 98% pure CH4.
This should be tried now

[cube]

I believe even 50 years from now gasoline will still be the primary source of power for cars. But what about PO? They'll be less gas to go around so the cars of the future will be much more efficient.