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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (3451)	5/16/2007 10:40:15 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 20435

Where are you going dude? Why do you hate electric cars? I don't. I think it would be FANTASTIC if we copuld devise practical electrical transport AND practical non-polluting ways og generating that electricity. Of course, as you point out in another post, you've then got to figure out how to pay for highways. But currently (a) economical transportable means of electical energy storage don't exist; ie., batteries are too d***ed expensive for what they will store. Breakthroughs here MAY be on the way. YUou've also got to face safety issues: those batteries can kill with electrical charge AND explode. OTOH, gasoline is hardly safe. Or ethanol. (b) Don't argue with me, argue with google: "n 2000, the existing capacity1 of U.S. electric utilities totaled 604,514 megawatts (Table 1), a net change of -34,810 megawatts (-5.4 percent) from the total reported in 1999. This was mainly due to the sale/transfer of 42,974 megawatts of capacity during 2000 to nonutilities. Based on primary energy source, coal-fired capacity represented 43 percent (260,990 megawatts) of the Nation's existing capacity (Figure 1). Gas-fired capacity accounted for 19 percent (117,845 megawatts); nuclear, 14 percent (86,163 megawatts); renewable energy sources,2 12 percent (74,575 megawatts); petroleum, 7 percent (41,017 megawatts); and pumped storage hydroelectric, 3 percent (18,020 megawatts). " eia.doe.gov IOW, in 2000, fossil fuels generated 62% of US electricity. And you can't get a nuclear plant built to dave your life. Hydro is rapidly approaching this point. Yet if we are to switch to electric transport, production must INCREASE, not decrease. Where's that power coming from?