[Mgs] OT : Tesla - in the flesh!!

[Max Heim]

Umm, because oil is a finite resource? And it's unlikely that solar cells
will ever be capable of directly powering a practical vehicle? So might as
well start working the bugs out now.


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Max Heim
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on 2/27/09 8:17 AM, Barrie Robinson at barrie at look.ca wrote:

> Rick,
> 
> I cannot understand the hype either.  I know that transferring energy
> to another form loses a bit, so we take oil and make electricity,
> then we transport electricity across the country for delivery to an
> outlet.  Then we charge up a battery - the battery runs the car's
> electric motor.  Thus we have lost energy in several processes - Why
> not go straight to oil thus eliminating these loss processes?   As to
> coal burning - why not make gas and get people to use gas instead of
> electricity (just got a gas stove - wonderbah !!)
> 
> At 09:54 AM 2/27/2009, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>> I get a kick out of all the emphasis, praise and glory that electric
>> vehicles get.  Just yesterday there was a glowing piece on NPR about
>> new electric trucks introduced at LA and Longbeach ports.  Everyone
>> was just drooling over how GREEN everything was.  Lots of folks
>> there patting themselves on the back.  Perhaps they didn't read the
>> bit about the electricity that they use being generated by
>> coal-fired power plants.  Electric vehicles just transfer the source
>> of the pollution away from the wealthy, artsy neighborhoods to the
>> blue collar neighborhoods where the power plants were
>> built!   That's right.  There's no free lunch.
>> 
>> rick
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