On Dec 21, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is something not clear, here? I fear we're typing past each other, so this will be my last post on this thread that's not all that much on topic. The last word is yours, if you want it. My point, again, is that EVs, despite being theoretically ideal in general and actually ideal in a great many scenarios, aren't even an hypothetical option in the real world for huge and vital swaths of our society's infrastructure. If an electric airliner will ever be built, it won't be for several decades or more. "Better to use electricity" is a non-starter; electricity just simply isn't an option. As such, the choice then becomes to mine the carbon that's required to power those vehicles, or to recycle the carbon that's already going to be mined to burn in electric power plants. And, since we're going to be mining the coal anyway, I'd rather leave the petroleum in the ground than dig it up as well -- especially since we then wouldn't have to dig up additional amounts of carbon to burn in the airliners and trucks and combines and what-not. "Reduce, reuse, recycle." b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141221/60333394/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
