There is to be considered that coal can be burned cleanly in new power plants, because almost all harmful emissions can be purified. Also I cannot believe that even old coal burning stations can be more dirty than burning fuel in internal combustion engine. Internal combustion engine and especially Diesel engine produces huge amounts of nasty aerosols that are from nitrogen reactions and incomplete burning of fuel.
Difference in pollution might be smaller to external combustion engines. But I would still think that electric cars does pollute less. We must remember that electricity is produced with low efficiency and batteries are more heavy carry than fuel, so difference may not be that big, because liquid fuels are often more clean than coal. –Jouni On 16 Feb 2012, at 04:22, "Jones Beene" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yikes. This is based on China, and your state may vary... but the US uses > megatons of coal, so it is probably not terribly different here if you are > downwind. > > And, to think - I was secretly day-dreaming about owning the new Tesla SUV > next year .... > > http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2012/02/13/researchers-find-ecar-emissions-harmfu > l/ > http://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=16182 > > <winmail.dat>
