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Oil isn’t working

We can feel it—in the air, at the pump, in our neighborhood.

It’s running out. And if you ask us, the last drop can’t arrive a moment too soon. The massive spills, the air and water contamination, the geo-political turmoil. We’ve had enough of oil.


http://www.betterplace.com/

1 posted on 05/24/2013 8:04:44 PM PDT by haffast
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To: haffast

Liberals = terminal cancer


2 posted on 05/24/2013 8:16:27 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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Don’t cry when this company dies. They’ll be in a better place. Oh, wait........


3 posted on 05/24/2013 8:24:14 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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It’s running out. And if you ask us, the last drop can’t arrive a moment too soon.

Ha.....and the Green River formation weighs in at 3 Trillion Barrels of oil.

4 posted on 05/24/2013 8:58:00 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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What a lousy name for a company. No wonder it went bankrupt.


5 posted on 05/24/2013 11:09:33 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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Here's the problem: it will take the resources of a current (pun not intended!) major automobile manufacturer to make longer-range electric cars practical.

Fortunately, thanks to nanotechnology, such batteries could become reality. The development of dry-electrode lithium-ion, carbon-nanotube ultracapacitor, and possibly layered graphene sheet batteries could triple the range of electric cars by 2017, and that will finally make electric cars viable as replacements for internal combustion engine (ICE) cars for commuting.

6 posted on 05/24/2013 11:22:01 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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“Until relatively recently, though, Better Place was still expressing confidence in its future. Company spokesperson Susanne Tolstrup, for one, said that the company had a bright future in China. “”

EVERY COMPANY has a bright future in China, given the massive number of people and the huge (and increasing) wealth there.

...of course that’s only until they try to do business there.


8 posted on 05/25/2013 4:39:41 AM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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Keep in mind that all the effort and cost (particularly capital cost) involved with having a system to switch out batteries and having batteries readily available wherever you drive, is all being done to replace 1, maybe 2 gallons of gas (at most) per battery swap. It’s hard to see how their model was ever going to work.


9 posted on 05/25/2013 4:42:48 AM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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