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   From: olegp@telus.net   
      
   "Spokesman"  wrote in message   
   news:1LednZvqF7bud63YnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@wightman.ca...   
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   > "News"  wrote in message   
   > news:452fad8e$0$97277$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...   
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   >> "JoeSP"  wrote in message   
   >> news:L0IXg.61800$E67.36752@clgrps13...   
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   >> > The electricity that powers the electric car was likely produced by a   
   >> > powerplant that burned fossil fuels.  Because there are so many   
   >> > inefficiencies and losses along the way, there is actually 2 or 3 times   
   >> > more pollution produced for every kilometer driven by an electric car   
   >> > as   
   >> > compared to an internal combustion engined car.  It's just an illusion   
   >> > based on an incomplete understanding of the facts.   
   >>   
   >> Not so.  75% of the energy in your tank is wasted.  Only about 5% of the   
   >> energy in a battery pack is wasted. It is far more efficient to pour the   
   >> fuel in a generators at the power station, inc lines losses, than pour it   
   > in   
   >> your car.   
   >>   
   >> > Currently the best and most affordable battery for electric cars is the   
   >> > lead-acid type, which are very heavy, limit the car's range and present   
   > a   
   >> > disposal problem every few years when they need replacing.  There   
   >> > simply   
   >> > isn't enough lead available to replace all the cars with electric ones.   
   >>   
   >> You need to do some reading on modern batteries.   
   >   
   >   
   > Modern batteries use metals that make lead look like somthing you would   
   > have   
   > for lunch.  Very Toxic, very polluting, and extremely hard to clean up if   
   > the is an accident, fire, stc.   
   >   
      
   Tut tut...   
      
   Want to spend $100,000 on batteries? That's how.   
      
   Yes, 5% of the energy in a battery is wasted, but you forgot about all the   
   losses in the transmission lines, transformers and distribution lines.   
   Considerably more losses than that.   
      
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