On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:50:19PM +0100, Ashish Gulhati wrote: > You can make electricity directly from coal, without making it oil
Have you looked up the energy density of octane, and of NiMH cells? There's a damn reason the world is hooked on liquid hydrocarbons, and you need big expensive plants to make synfuel from coal, or biomass, or gas, or carbonaceus chondrite. > first. It's not oil we need, it's energy, and increasingly in the form > of electricity. Why does the free market not give us electric cars, or electric ships, or electric planes, not even supersonic? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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