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Old 12-03-2016, 02:26 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Would it be reasonable then to say that a 100MPGe car running on coal-generated electricity from a plant that's 40% thermally efficient would actually be 40MPGe, in a sense? Or, less really because it takes energy to get that coal out of the ground, transported, and prepped for burning, plus whether systems are necessary to clean up emissions?
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