Alternative Fuels For A Better Sustainable Tomorrow

Hybrid Cars, Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCX), Ethanol & Biodiesel.

Need For Alternative Fuels

Fossil Fuels Or Conventional Fuels Are Available In Limited Supply In nature In The Near Future Their Depletion Is Imminent Moreover Fossil Fuels Add To The Air Population As They Emit Toxic Gases Such As CO & CO2 After Combustion Hence To Satisfy The Ever Growing Hunger For Fuels & To Balance The Harmful Emissions That We Give Out To Nature We Need Alternative, Renewable And Sustainable Fuels.

Hybrid Cars
Hybrid Cars Are At The Pinnacle of the alternative fuel & low emission initiative taken by the automotive industry. The Basic principle of a Hybrid Vehicle As The Name Suggest Is To Combine The Good Qualities Of Two Units To Eliminate Out The Negatives Of the same This is achieved by coupling petrol engines with electric motors in vehicles The petrol engine is utilised mainly for long distance or high way journeys. The electric motor is utilised for short distances or usually city driving, wherein there is more loss of fossil fuel.

 While utilising the petrol engine for motion, the transformers charge the batteries used to run the electric motors. Moreover when the drivers applies the brakes the energy derived from the braking action is used to charge the batteries of the electric motor. This engine-motor unison helps hybrid cars give out extremely low emissions and have high mileage. Thus providing a good alternative to traditional petrol driven cars

Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCX)

Invented in 1839 by Sir William Grove. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that produces electricity and heat from a fuel (often hydrogen) and oxygen and the waste product is water. Unlike conventional engines, it does this without burning the fuel and can therefore be more efficient and cleaner. In Automobiles the electricity produced in a fuel cell is used to run a motor which in turn propels the automobile. Thus providing a virtually emission less and clean source of energy.

Ethanol
Ethanol (C2 H6 O) The Largest Single use of Ethanol is as motor fuel or fuel additive. Ethanol as Fuel Reduces harmful tailpipe emissions of CO, particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen and other ozone forming pollutants. Ethanol can Be used as hydrous ethanol in vehicles (95% ethanol 5% water) Ethanol Is Produced On A Large scale using the waste out of sugarcane mills and also using corn. The Most Commonly Used Ethanol Fuel Is E85 (85% Ethanol 15% Petrol) The Ethanol Variant Available In India, for Indian Cars Is E10 ( Ethanol 10% Petrol 90%)

Biodiesel
Clean Burning Diesel replacement Made from increasingly diverse mix of resources such as agricultural oils, recycled cooking oil and animal fats. Produced By Transesterification of Oils And Fats to Produce Esters (Combustible Biodiesel) The Process To Produce Biodiesel Is Easily Carried Out On A domestic basis hence making it the largest produced domestic fuel.

Nothing Is Fate, But What We Make...

Use of Alternate Sources Of Energy Is Rather A choice that we make for the betterment of our environment and our future. What we choose to do today will shape our tomorrow. Preventive And Curative Measures, Proper Attitude Towards The Environment And Resources Will Help Us build A Better Future. Not Only For Us For The Future

We Have Not Inherited The Earth From Ancestors, We Have Only Borrowed it From Our Children. -Eugene Cloutier