May 28, 2008 6:26 AM PDT

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by AppleSuxLeo May 28, 2008 7:08 AM PDT
They will probably find that the RF these electric cars are putting out are cooking your internal organs. Most electricity is made from coal in this country.
I would rather have a Methanol or Ethanol based car. Think "alcohol dragster" alcohols can be made from many different things that are grown and renewable. We need to look at what Brazil has done...just amazing !
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by AppleSuxLeo May 28, 2008 7:09 AM PDT
They will probably find that the RF these electric cars are putting out are cooking your internal organs. Most electricity is made from coal in this country.
I would rather have a Methanol or Ethanol based car. Think "alcohol dragster" alcohols can be made from many different things that are grown and renewable. We need to look at what Brazil has done...just amazing !
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by lastchoice May 28, 2008 7:48 AM PDT
like cutting down the rainforest for sugarcane?

cellulosic ethanol...
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by razor.rodriguez May 28, 2008 8:50 AM PDT
First of all, you are probably getting more RF from your cell phone than you'll ever get from the EVs. Second, we need to look at the fact that internal combustion is extremely inefficient, somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 30%. I'm not saying that cellulosic ethanol doesn't have a place in all this. I just think that all of this new fuel technology can provide ethanol to be burnt at electric power plants where, through the use of high efficiency turbines, heat sequestering and other systems, they can reach up to 80-85% efficiency. The point is, if we put the burden on power generation, it's a lot easier to pool resources to improve power generation from fuel and renewables and stop dumping money into an inefficient system.
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