Book contents
- No Miracles Needed
- Reviews
- No Miracles Needed
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
- 2 WWS Solutions for Electricity Generation
- 3 WWS Solutions for Electricity Storage
- 4 WWS Solutions for Transportation
- 5 WWS Solutions for Buildings
- 6 WWS Solutions for Industry
- 7 Solutions for Nonenergy Emissions
- 8 What Doesn’t Work
- 9 Electricity Grids
- 10 Photovoltaics and Solar Radiation
- 11 Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy
- 12 Steps in Developing 100 Percent WWS Roadmaps
- 13 Keeping the Grid Stable with 100 Percent WWS
- 14 Timeline and Policies Needed to Transition
- 15 My Journey
- References
- Index
4 - WWS Solutions for Transportation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- No Miracles Needed
- Reviews
- No Miracles Needed
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
- 2 WWS Solutions for Electricity Generation
- 3 WWS Solutions for Electricity Storage
- 4 WWS Solutions for Transportation
- 5 WWS Solutions for Buildings
- 6 WWS Solutions for Industry
- 7 Solutions for Nonenergy Emissions
- 8 What Doesn’t Work
- 9 Electricity Grids
- 10 Photovoltaics and Solar Radiation
- 11 Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy
- 12 Steps in Developing 100 Percent WWS Roadmaps
- 13 Keeping the Grid Stable with 100 Percent WWS
- 14 Timeline and Policies Needed to Transition
- 15 My Journey
- References
- Index
Summary
Transportation is the conveyance of people, animals, or goods from one place to another. Types of transportation include skateboards, bicycles, motorcycles, passenger vehicles, sport utility vehicles, small trucks, large trucks, semi-trucks, buses, forklifts, cranes, tractors, bulldozers, asphalt pavers, backhoe loaders, cold planers, compactors, excavators, harvesters, graders, off-road vehicles, trains, ferries, motorboats, yachts, ships, helicopters, aircraft, battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, armored combat support vehicles, mine-protected vehicles, light armored vehicles, light utility vehicles, amphibious vehicles, and more. All of these, except skateboards and bicycles, currently run primarily by burning gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, methanol, ethanol, liquefied natural gas, bunker fuel, or jet fuel in an internal combustion engine. These fuels are all derivatives of fossil fuels or biofuels. The cleanest and most efficient method of replacing these fossil-fuel and biofuel vehicles is to convert them to battery-electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. This chapter discusses these two WWS solutions.
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- No Miracles NeededHow Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, pp. 47 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023