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To: energyplay who wrote (774)9/23/2005 3:57:36 PM
From: Moominoid  Respond to of 219648
 
I agree - I think it is win-win. I can't see a downside. Combined cycle gas-fired power stations reach 50% efficiency. Coal is less and nukes and hydro don't involve fossil fuels. I think internal combustion in a car is 15-20%?



To: energyplay who wrote (774)9/23/2005 10:28:31 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 219648
 
While Ok in fuelling cars we can use cheap electricity to aluminum smelting: Alcoa confirms $1.6 billion Brazil expansion plans

"This should result an extra $400 million in sales abroad and an extra $200 million from sales in Brazil," Franklin Feder, Alcoa's head of Latin American operations, said after a meeting with Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.


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