[Gllug] [OT] Fighting a virus

[- Tethys]

On 2/19/07, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

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.

Tet
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