"Nancy Young" ha scritto nel messaggio

> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> IMO, the hybrid and electric cars are not quite proven technology.>> That
>> clean electric fuel often comes from dirty generating plants. The
>> expensive batteries will have to be recycled to avoid contamination from
>> the chemicals. Moving the greenhouse gasses from the car to a powerplant
>> does not solve the problems, at least not yet.
>
> Refreshing to hear someone say that. We have all this pollution drifting
> over from coal burning electric plants in the midwest, then> people refer
> to electric cars as non-polluting. Just because smoke> doesn't come out
> of your electric outlets doesn't mean it's clean> energy, necessarily.
> nancy

But it doesn't have to be like that. With not-that-modern technology the
effluent from those stacks can be clean and the energy dispersed in it
captured and used. Electric cars are not the one and only possible answer,
either. There are so many ways of producing methane gas that even an
individual farmer can do it. It can be used for producing electricity or
can be condensed and bottled to be used in vehicles. These alternate cars
are not that new here and they work for the purposes they are meant. Gas
bottles are extremely common, cheap, very clean and go as far as you need to
go and then you can fill up easily. Electric cars are ideal for little
service vehicles. These two are the only cars allowed into city centers
when there are pollution alerts.

Public transport is sad in the USA. Next month I have to get from suburban
Washington DC to Gettysburg, a major tourism destination. It's car or
nothing. How did we let things get so bad? The day I arrive I have to get
to Martinsburg WV. There is a train, but ALL the trains go into DC in the
morning and back at night. I need to be there during office hours.