Alternative Energy Resources

Even though they aren’t expected to reach the mass market before 2010, fuel cell vehicles might someday revolutionize on-road transportation. This emerging technology has the potential to considerably decrease energy use and harmful emissions, as well as our dependence on foreign oil. Fuel cell vehicles will have other advantages too.

There is a growing trend toward pushing people to use new alternative fuels to power their vehicles. Alternative fuel burns cleaner, is better for the environment, and, in many cases, can be cheaper than gasoline. But not just any car will run on alternative fuels. The engine must be constructed in a different way to [...]