Thus spake "Isaiah" <isaiah@isaiah.org> :

>
>"jolly" <freedatingsites@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:4026449f-b8ec-49d0-a4cf-cf561ad13031@f33g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
>> BMW Mini to Sell Electric Cars in U.S. From Summer 2009...
>> http://www.techespot.com/2009/06/bmw...ars-in-us.html
>
>Hmm...try recharging that thing in CT, where the KW per hour charge is
>$0.23. I wonder which would have larger carbon footprint, a gas
>powered vehicle or the fossil fuel needed to recharge an all electric
>vehicle.....
>

The larger your powerplant, the more efficient it is. So that IC
engine is going to have less thermal efficiency that a 12,000 MW (or
however much) oil/gas/coal plant.

My f-i-l was a pwer EE and talked about some plants with turbines
exhausting at temperatures within 50 degrees of ambient. Now, today
the high was ony 105, so that might give "them" more leeway.
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to be a cylon."
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