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>OK, suppose we mandated 1 Million EVs to be built next year. They would >probably have to use lead-acid batteries, as they are the only off-the-shelf >technology available. They are already expensive, but what will happen to >the >price of lead when GM tries to buy another million tons? > more will be recycled nickel-hydride and lithium batteries are becoming used more often. We're not talking about rare minerals here. >How will they get the >permission to open new lead mines? The environmental impact statements would >take years to get thrrough the courts. And the lead smelters? Worse. >Battery >recycling? We already ship automobile batteries offshore for recycling, >because of EPA and OSHA. What will we do with an extra half million tons a >year? > When there is more money in it, industries will be more willing to deal with it. > >How much space will they evacuate when a train hits an EV, spilling toxic >materials over a quarter mile or so of track? > Forget that we're talking about lead or sulfuric acid here, what are you talking about? The general trend these days with EVs is going toward gel-cell batteries. Most vehicles have the batteries secured so well that there isn't any problem. What about a car being hit and spreading gasoline all over the place? > Or the hydrogen explosion, after a >traffic accident? > From what? Batteries don't pump out enough hydrogen to cause a large explosion. I'd be more worried about my gas tank exploding. >Then there's the infrastructure, more than a million >charging stations. They'll be tearing up half the streets in LA, and the >folks in >Utah and Nevada will protest the building of new coal-burning (or nuclear) >electric generating plants there to charge the million cars. Who will pay for >the huge cost? > The people driving the cars, who do you think would pay it? What about tearing up the ground to put in huge fuel tanks that leak noxious hydrocarbons into the ground? >The poor folks in West Virginia won't like being taxed to pay >for toys for Green geeks on the west coast. Suppose you are running for >congress in West VA. How are you going to sell your "energy plan"? > > > > What about digging up the ground for oil? It's the same thing. Using renewable transfer media for energy is the key, not where it originally came from (the sun) - Martin Klingensmith infoarchive.net Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
