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Originally Posted by SlamDesigns
Yep, my business partner and I were talking about that tonight. We live in an area where the majority of power plants are coal burning. So if everyone around here bought one of those cars, the polution from the cars would decrease, but the polution from the power plants would increase...so it's a no win situation. Plus, $100K for a car....fuck that!
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Overall, even if every powerplant burnt coal, and all cars converted to electric there would be less pollution. Read the studies on their website, etc. I am kind of interested in this issue, although not worked up too much on one solution or another (i.e. electric over hydrogen or vice verse). But wouldn't be nice to live in a world were we weren't hostage to the Muslim radicals of Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc, where 90% of their populations survive on Government handouts that come directly from our pocket at the pump? It would be a nice big fuck you if we could get real about moving away from oil. And plus, by the time electric or hydrogen cars start hitting the road in huge numbers ITER's 13 billion dollar experimental powerplant will be online and working, and Governments around the world will hopefully start investing in what it has to offer for domestic power supply. Perhaps it is dreaming, but what a combination that could make, a safe, clean, essentially limitless source of electricity, and electric powered cars. I think this is a great first step, when they get down to their $25k electric family car that they have planned I hope it takes off. Plus there are plenty of solutions in the work for the many problems that need to be overcome, such as ultracapacitors that can be fully recharged in 5 minutes or less. This is just the start of a new market I hope, one which will attract alot of investment.
http://www.iter.org/