On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Peakfoto Digital Photo Still n Video via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.hybridcars.com/the-oil-sands-surprising-new-nemesis-plug-in-vehicles/ > > Electric cars are Far more cost n energy effective. At the $200/bbl range the article so casually mentions, even unimaginably expensive futuristic technologies become economical -- such as using the Fischer-Tropsch process (or something similar) to turn atmospheric CO2 plus photovoltaic electricity into hydrocarbon fuels. Of course, as is the whole point of the article, powering vehicles directly off of electricity is much, much cheaper than even refining today's tar sands into gasoline...but it's comforting, at least a bit, to know both that there're economic limits to how much fossil fuels we're likely to extract (because alternatives, expensive as they are, will be less expensive) and that we won't (exactly) run out of hydrocarbon fuels for things like combine harvesters and intercontinental aircraft -- or of hydrocarbon feedstocks for plastics. At the same time...imagine what that doubling of fossil fuel prices and everything that relies on fossil fuels (like food) would be like. It's not going to be a pretty sight. Those with local (e.g., rooftop solar) renewable electricity production and electric vehicles will escape the most obvious of the financial hits, but even food is going to get expensive, and the global economy is going to suffer greatly... ...but, if we can make it past that without collapsing into chaos, a solar-powered future should be mighty bright indeed. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140821/d526f5ae/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
