Umm, because oil is a finite resource? And it's unlikely that solar cells
will ever be capable of directly powering a practical vehicle? So might as
well start working the bugs out now.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 2/27/09 8:17 AM, Barrie Robinson at barrie@look.ca wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I cannot understand the hype either. I know that transferring energy
> to another form loses a bit, so we take oil and make electricity,
> then we transport electricity across the country for delivery to an
> outlet. Then we charge up a battery - the battery runs the car's
> electric motor. Thus we have lost energy in several processes - Why
> not go straight to oil thus eliminating these loss processes? As to
> coal burning - why not make gas and get people to use gas instead of
> electricity (just got a gas stove - wonderbah !!)
>
> At 09:54 AM 2/27/2009, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>> I get a kick out of all the emphasis, praise and glory that electric
>> vehicles get. Just yesterday there was a glowing piece on NPR about
>> new electric trucks introduced at LA and Longbeach ports. Everyone
>> was just drooling over how GREEN everything was. Lots of folks
>> there patting themselves on the back. Perhaps they didn't read the
>> bit about the electricity that they use being generated by
>> coal-fired power plants. Electric vehicles just transfer the source
>> of the pollution away from the wealthy, artsy neighborhoods to the
>> blue collar neighborhoods where the power plants were
>> built! That's right. There's no free lunch.
>>
>> rick
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> Barrie
>
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