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To: domenad
If you could just get to work and home on a battery charge, why bother with gas?

Ever take a physics class?

77 posted on 02/13/2006 12:53:31 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Cobra64

Uh, yes I have smart aleck. I'm an electrical engineer, and I know that the net energy savings from just pumping electrical into the grid far outweighs drilling, piping or shipping, cracking and refining, and delivering fuel. Disseminating electrical energy over a unified (relatively) grid fed from a point source is more efficient, as are electric motors (85% or better typical efficiency, vs greater heat and entropy losses in internal combustion). I'm simply asking why they don't go the plug in route for city driving, letting you save your gas for long-haul trips.


88 posted on 02/13/2006 1:29:23 PM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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