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It looks like I hit hard at Autopia, and the article by Mike Duoba of Argonne that I responded to was completely taken down. I guess my patience is wearing thin, especially since I see innovation as a topic of National importance, so much so that we have to get it right. I have been at this three years and simply will not let it go by unchallenged:
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Mike Duoba and Argonne National Laboratory,
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Shame.
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Shame for contributing to the xprize bogosity of MPGE which seriously misguides everyone looking for ways to reduce CO2. I am sure you know, that when the energy basis of electricity at the heat engine where it is produced is included in the MPGE calculation, that the electric cars would achieve about a third the MPGE that is here proclaimed.
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Shame. Shame on you and all the others who tolerate this bogosity.
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Shame on all those who actually learned physics, where the Second Law of Thermodynamics clearly tells that a kWhr of electricity can produce a kWhr of heat but a kWhr of heat can not produce anything close to a kWhr of electricity, but fail to speak up in the face of this widely used trickery in promotion of electric vehicles.
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One can understand how a legislator such as Nancy Pelosi thinks "science, science, science" will guide us to innovation when she hears repeatedly from supposedly knowledgeable folks like Xprize officials backed by Argonne National Laboratories, numbers that proclaim nonsensical MPGE achievements by electric cars.
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No person that allows this nonsense should be allowed to keep their diplomas from any institution higher than high school, and maybe even high schoolers should know better.
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Clearly it has to be difficult for venture capitalists to sort through the bamboozlement; and thus we have coming forth well funded projects for plug-in cars and facilities enabling such plugging-in.
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Even at our EPA, there seems to be no understanding of this, as we now see their plan to rate cars by grade letter with phony MPGE as supplementary data.
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As I said to the Xprize officials in the beginning, "You are doing great harm", with this kind of thinking. And it seems to be all pervasive.
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Shame on Argonne and SAE for not standing on this.
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And all that understand this should also understand how this undercuts real innovation. In the case of the Xprize, the electric vehicles represent truly trivial innovation. And that gets rewarded and made to look like great achievement by the numbers announced.
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Shame on the Xprize.
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