Fuel prices drive innovation
http://www.carpoint.com.au/car-review/2957600.aspx [2008-7-15]
Tag : Car Fuel System
There's one point on which conservationists, car-makers and the oilindustry seem to agree. Fossil fuels are not going to die quickly.
Whether it's petrol, diesel or LPG, there's plenty of life left innon-renewable energy sources, buried in the ground though they maybe. Whilst there are some who say we've already reached peak oilproduction (more here ), the oil industry reckons there are huge reserves of oil yetremaining and oil fields that were previously in the too-hardbasket are now viable, because of the increased profits from thehigher demand.
Thanks to the impetus from global warming however, what we canexpect to see over the next couple of decades is a massiveexpansion in different means of extracting the most from fossilfuels, ahead of the large-scale implementation of renewablesources, such as biofuels. That means diesels, hybrids and conceptslike Daimler AG's Diesotto system, ahead of ethanol-fuelledspark-ignition cars, biodiesel production in commercial quantitiesand -- further down the track -- such things as hydrogen fuelcells.
Whilst biofuels are a key plank in any future strategy for reducinggreenhouse gas emissions, commercialisation of ethanol productionfrom cellulosic biomass is still some way off in the future -- andmust also accommodate the food crops for the world.
This is the view of Monica Richter, Sustainable Australia ProgramManager for the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
"To me, we are really caught in the next 10 to 15 years of nothaving a lot of the alternative technologies to roll out on amassive scale," she says of the current situation and theshort-term prospects for biofuels.
There's one point on which conservationists, car-makers and the oilindustry seem to agree. Fossil fuels are not going to die quickly.
Whether it's petrol, diesel or LPG, there's plenty of life left innon-renewable energy sources, buried in the ground though they maybe. Whilst there are some who say we've already reached peak oilproduction (more here ), the oil industry reckons there are huge reserves of oil yetremaining and oil fields that were previously in the too-hardbasket are now viable, because of the increased profits from thehigher demand.
Thanks to the impetus from global warming however, what we canexpect to see over the next couple of decades is a massiveexpansion in different means of extracting the most from fossilfuels, ahead of the large-scale implementation of renewablesources, such as biofuels. That means diesels, hybrids and conceptslike Daimler AG's Diesotto system, ahead of ethanol-fuelledspark-ignition cars, biodiesel production in commercial quantitiesand -- further down the track -- such things as hydrogen fuelcells.
Whilst biofuels are a key plank in any future strategy for reducinggreenhouse gas emissions, commercialisation of ethanol productionfrom cellulosic biomass is still some way off in the future -- andmust also accommodate the food crops for the world.
This is the view of Monica Richter, Sustainable Australia ProgramManager for the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
"To me, we are really caught in the next 10 to 15 years of nothaving a lot of the alternative technologies to roll out on amassive scale," she says of the current situation and theshort-term prospects for biofuels.
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