[Gllug] [OT] Fighting a virus

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On 19 Feb 2007, tethys at gmail.com uttered the following:
> Burning fossil fuels in a power station is significantly more
> efficient than doing so in an internal combustion engine in a car.
> However, IIRC, to charge a battery suitable to power a car takes 6
> times as much energy as it will release, and I doubt that power
> stations are 6 times more efficient at extracting energy from fossil
> fuels.

We need better batteries. (But then everyone knows this, including the
battery manufacturers. The problem is *hard*.)

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