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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:34:30 -0500, "D-unit" cof42_AT_embarqmail.com
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Im not going to go out a buy an electric car just yet.
Actually this is probably the golden age of the electric car. "Fuel"
is very cheap.
Once they actually get a significant number on the road they will be
separately metering your charger for the road tax and adding a
surcharge for the added electrical infrastructure they need to charge
millions of cars every night.

I still don't get it though. The energy to charge the batteries in an
electric car has to come from somewhere.
Hybrids are charged by the gas (oil) powered engine, along with
supplements of "regenerative braking", etc.

Plug in (to charge) electrics still derive their power from oil, as do
hybrids. So, where's the "green" thing?

Answer: Nuclear. But first we have to convert all the tree huggers.

Eisboch


LOL It is not the tree hugger that have a problem with nuclear, it is the
general population and the NIMBY attitude. Nobody wants a nuke generator
built in their county or on their lake. Nobody wants a used nuclear fuel
dump in their state. Now if you could convince your next door neighbor that
you should store spent nuclear rods in your city - maybe we could push
nuclear forward.




I live, oh, 25-30 miles, I would guess, from a nuclear powerplant. I
fish near it when I can. Other than the fact that my dick has grown
another six inches and its tip now glows in the dark, I haven't noticed
anything unusual.

Seriously, there is talk about building a second reactor on the site,
which I favor. It is good, clean power, and so long as the spent fuel
rods are stored in Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi, it is ok with me.
The local unions also favor it because they, of course, will get the work.


Its probably stored at the Harris plant. -like 10 miles from *my* back yard.
Progress Energy now has approval/permit to build another reactor with plans
to raise the lake level another 15 feet or so. (Don't know how they're
going to pull that one off, not alot of water around these days.)


We fish/boat/ski/swim in that lake. Hydrilla has taken over and keeps
the water quite clear.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/pl.../hydrilla.html


Lots of big bass too. Some with extra tails..but hey who's counting? ;-)



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