[Gllug] [OT] Fighting a virus

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:19 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> Moving away from burning fossil fuels is unfortunately easier said than done!
> The energy has to come from somewhere, be it solar, wind, water, nuclear, fossil
> or bio.
> Only bio and fossil would seem to be viable for powering cars.
> The idea of electric powered cars being more ecologically friendly seems to be
> a nonsense all the while electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels.
> I havn't seen any sums but its a fair bet that burning fuel in a power station,
> transmitting the electricity, charging up a car and then running electric motors
> is less efficient than a small efficient 'fossil fuel' engine.

Moreover, the chemicals used in the manufacture of batteries are
particularly nasty and very difficult to get rid of when the battery is
exhausted (you can't recharge any kind of battery forever!).

Chris




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