What is americas and/or the worlds energy fuure

I don't want to fuel my car up with gas that costs 10 bucks a gallon what is the energy future bio fuels fuel cell.....electric blah* what are we going to make our electricity with coal geothermal wind solar water atsmospheric energy (whatever that is) thoughts?

Solar. That is 10 billion years of energy alone

Hamster power!

Closely followed by potato power.

Energy can't be created or destroyed. So it doesn't really make any difference. Where ever we take it from will result in a deficit somewhere else. And then it all turns into heat.

Now, if we could capture all this heat...

The Swedes do something like that

Good idea. We harness the heat of the Swedish Women's Beach Volleyball team. It's infinite.

lol I'm an advocate of geothermal energy because then you wouldn't need a million solar panels in huge fields solar and wind should be used as peripheral additions for Individuals who want to save money there's also strides being made in fusion which could be a viable option I also think the almighty omnipotent grid should be replaced with a simpler more localized and reliable grid perhaps statewide maybe smaller

I dislike ignorant people who are against nuclear power and would rather to hydrofracking for limited sources of gas

Geothermal and solar energy would cool the earth. But that would take awhile but serve another purpose. Of course it can also cause unpredictable natural effects

I didn't know that drew want to explain it seems that any affects on earths temperature would neglible

geothermal doesn't release CO2 so the only way it could cool the earth is....idk anyways the world is to damn hot anyways I live up north and I go 100 miles south and its completely unbearable

Exactly my point the world is too hot, I was just saying it is counter-active to our high emmisions levels.

It would cool the earth as the heat inside the Earth would be transfered into harnassable energy. Just as the sun, the less sun that hits the Earth and instead gets harnassed into energy the less of it to heat the Earth. I think it's good, if that wasn't clear.

Like stated in the above on geothermal, which is cool and all, but that is extremely limited. Once the steam runs out you're screwed. Another energy source is Wind. The wind turbines that you see in wind farms are nice and all but cost way to much and are somewhat obsolete. Another Energy source that seems to be gaining ground is ethanol. The draw back from that is massive land lost and today's engines are not really designed for it. To much water in the ethanol. Solar seems to be very popular down in Southwest. Up in the Northeast we have that white stuff called snow which covers the solar panels rendering them useless.

well ethanol and electricity production are different topics devils and I never knew ethanol wasn't as effective as gas.....once they figure out how to then cellulose into ethanol it will be the next fuel of the future for our transportation its basically carbon nuetral aswell

and the steam doesn't run out you just put more water into the hot hole.....and I think the affects of using geothermal would be neglible on the temperature of the earth ill have to do more research though

and what are unpredictable natural effects

and does anyone here drive a hybrid or electric car???

I gots me a Nova. The unpredictable natural effects would be results from cooling the earths surface