12-09-2008, 02:03 PM
Charles,
You may think electric cars are more efficient if you disregards several factors.
I think this maybe because you BELIEVE and you disparately want to believe.
Sure electricity looks cheap and viable when you are generating it from coal fired plants, but when you factor in real costs, especially the cost of buying,making and replacing expensive and very heavy, and ecologically unsound batteries is over looked in you equation.
Try to think of where energy comes from. Most all of our energy comes from the Sun.
Except for tidal and nuclear, every other source is a Sunlight derivative.
The energy that mines, smelts. brings to market the led, lithium etc. also comes from the Sun. Sure, it maybe energy that hit plankton 20 million years ago, but it was the same photosynthesis that we harness from ethanol as we glean from petroleum.
There is ongoing work on battery technology, and it well surely get better. I hope you will soon buy an electric car and it works for you.
On the bright side we are potentially heading for a global depression of the like never seen and soon oil maybe 15 dollars a barrel and gas will be 89 cents at the pump. That ain't bad considering almost half of that is taxes.
Smart money is in raising your own food crops, everything else will be consider BS.
You may think electric cars are more efficient if you disregards several factors.
I think this maybe because you BELIEVE and you disparately want to believe.
Sure electricity looks cheap and viable when you are generating it from coal fired plants, but when you factor in real costs, especially the cost of buying,making and replacing expensive and very heavy, and ecologically unsound batteries is over looked in you equation.
Try to think of where energy comes from. Most all of our energy comes from the Sun.
Except for tidal and nuclear, every other source is a Sunlight derivative.
The energy that mines, smelts. brings to market the led, lithium etc. also comes from the Sun. Sure, it maybe energy that hit plankton 20 million years ago, but it was the same photosynthesis that we harness from ethanol as we glean from petroleum.
There is ongoing work on battery technology, and it well surely get better. I hope you will soon buy an electric car and it works for you.
On the bright side we are potentially heading for a global depression of the like never seen and soon oil maybe 15 dollars a barrel and gas will be 89 cents at the pump. That ain't bad considering almost half of that is taxes.
Smart money is in raising your own food crops, everything else will be consider BS.