keithfeather

Rapid Transition to Grid Enabled Vehicles Not Possible or Desirable

Thank you for the logically crafted article. Another issue to roll into the argument is that (generally) the manufactured cost of goods are about 20% energy, meaning that the $/kwhr storage can also be expressed to include energy consumed to produce the product, kwhr/(kwhr storage). The illogical production of storage systems that over their lifetimes consume more energy in production than they can (save) is one that only a bureaucrat can embrace.

Keith .

Hybrids Lead the Way for Auto Transport Industry

Plenty. It's sarcasm though.




On Oct 07 12:33 AM THofler wrote:

> Keith, Any idea what the transmission losses are from say Nebraska
> to S.F.? I'd guess more than 60% lost even with state of the art
> hardware.

Hybrids Lead the Way for Auto Transport Industry

These vehicles primarily reduce local emissions, where they are operated. The way to utilize this technology best is to impose "internal combustion free" zones. San Francisco, LA, and NYC come to mind. Ban all gasoline inside city limits. Surely that would make living and working in the city more bearable, and since their commutes are short, the vehicles would be an excellent choice.

And the pollution to make all that electricity would be conveniently in the midwest.