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iBoaterer[_3_]

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On 5/21/13 5:25 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:04 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

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On Tue, 21 May 2013 08:51:56 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

Yeah, don't those fools who use flashlights know that they aren't going
to work? And that car battery that starts the car, who would be so
foolish as to depend on that?

The ignorance is kind of funny. No concept of the advantage of electric
power plant efficiency vs internal combustion engine efficiency.
Basically just knees jerking all over the place.

If the power plant is an old technology coal plant, the modern
gasoline engine is a lot cleaner.
There are also transmission line losses. That averages 6-7% but in the
north east where the lines are running over the design capacity, those
losses are much higher. IAEI had an article in their magazine a few
years ago talking about the problems of line sag because these wires
are running so hot.. Heat is lost energy.

It is easy to say we will just upgrade the grid but nobody wants a
power line in their back yard.

Gee, why all of a sudden it's an environmental issue and an
environmental issue only?

If electric cars are not an environmental issue, why bother with them?
If the idea of electric cars was attractive enough the market would
provide them to us without all of the government giveaways (AKA rich
people welfare)

I really tried to get on board but I still can't get the money to work
out even building a kit car, starting with a car I own. I am not rich
enough to just have an electric car as a toy.

What do you drive?

If it makes you feel better. Solar PV is starting to look attractive
to me but, as usual, the government is the biggest stumbling block.

I'd buy an all-electric car the size of a Toyota Corolla if it sold for
about $20,000, had a 300-mile range at 55-60 mph, and there weren't long
term issues with the batteries.

That's easy enough!