On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:44:12PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > 'sides, it still cracks me up every time some environmentalist says the > electric car is "clean". Yeah, because, you know, the power grid won't need > dozens of new plants to take over for the energy the cars are now not > individually producing. *eyeroll*
The hope is that large, well-engineered, monitored power plants can produce energy in a cleaner way than small, internal-combustion engines. Whether this is true is a matter of fact -- doesn anyone know the relevant facts here? (Not to mention the energy losses in the transmission of energy from the power plant to the wheels, of course) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
