Quote:
Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
Actually, if EV adoption goes too smoothly, there goes the gas price crunch which I'm hoping will awaken the masses to the importance of good energy policy. I really hope we never see a cheap, coal-fired SUV, but it looks like it's on the way.
|
I suspect that the adoption of EV or PHEV will be slow enough that we will manage to hit $5/gallon in US and $10/gallon in the rest of the world in the next couple of years.
Don't be so fixated on coal. Almost all new power plants in the US are Nat Gas and combined cycle Nat Gas plants can be ~60% efficient, though that's still a fossil fuel. Once we get over the fear of nuclear the grid will get even cleaner. Plus the emissions from electricity generation from coal can be cleaned up by using oil producing algae to clean the CO2, then the oil produced by the algae is used to make biodiesel.