On 8/1/2013 2:30 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The disadvantage of gasoline is that in a sense we're "cheating",
because the energy stored in it was built up over millions of years by
ancient organisms that have long decayed, and we're only now discharging
all that build-up. We didn't pay anything to put that energy there,
that's why it's so economical.
Yet the electric power to charge the batteries comes from burning coal and
natural gas :-)
Yeah, I know, solar, wind, etc. But that's still way off in providing base
power.
Like I said, it ain't easy being green. It's hard to do a "dust to dust"
analysis, and most of the time people simply choose to ignore costs that are
hard to calculate.
