John Woolsey wrote: >Think about it. Electric cars have the same problem as hydrogen cars. There is >no free supply of electricity. The only way to produce relatively polution >free vehicles would be to have all electrical power produced by nuclear >energy. Right now any increase in electrical energy consumption is generally >produced by coal. Net CO2 output from coal after inefficiency of batteries and >the like are taken into account is far higher than gas vehicles. > >As my air modeling friend told me. Electric vehicles are just a moving the >smoke plume issue. > > - bfn - JAW > > > http://www.electroauto.com/info/pollmyth.shtml http://www.solardome.com/solardome51.html
Please provide real sources such as those if you wish to make a sweeping comment in the future. Batteries are not inefficient compared to internal combustion engines, and large coal fired burners are actually much more efficient than the typical hydrocarbon to road custody chain. -- Martin Klingensmith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
