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Originally Posted by theunchosen
Everyone.
You are getting lulled in to another OT argument not relevant to this discussion in any fashion.
EV is more CO2 and energy efficient chain-included and looking strictly at whats in the tank and batteries.
I'll say that again. EV is more efficient period. Even if all the electricity came from Coal its still more CO2 and electricity efficient, period.
Arguing its better because you run solar is moot. Better is better period. If it starts off better as long as you don't power it using a home-made crappy coal-fired generator it will never not be better.
Anyone and everyone can ignore that as much as you like. If I convert a prius or an insight to EV I save CO2 and energy and money on fuel, if I then jump and make my own home power system from wind and solar then comparison is nothing short of meaningless. Sure you can compare somewhat expensive, somewhat CO2 laden fuel chains, and inefficient processes to "free"(legacy), CO2 free, and efficient processes. . .but Mathematicians will tell you comparing any finite number to an infinite one is pretty asinine.
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We really have some problems. Could we agree to disagree?
I need to get busy building my plug-in electric demo car. And I hope everyone learns from their projects as I do from mine. I try to get people thinking about emphasizing the efficiency of the vehicle itself, so it will not matter very much that coal has to be used to make it run.
I still have problems when it looks like things are getting badly off track for us as a country. Look at
AFS Trinity brings "150 mpg" plug-in hybrids to Capitol Hill for some sweet stimulus cash if you want to know what I really think.