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To: edward miller who wrote (104084)	6/30/2008 11:56:14 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206089

The idea of converting millions of already-built gasoline vehicles to electric power is perfectly absurd. The battery technology to move such heavy vehicles economically does not even exist. Why I should believe anything that this person says about himself or anything that anyone says about him is not at all clear. I own two Priuses, which have been engineered from scratch to use electric power, and even they really run on gasoline. Toyota is moving very cautiously towards production of a plug-in. Once in a while some backyard tinkerer will convert something like a small, light, gasoline vehicle to run on electricity but the results are not terribly impreesive. I think just because a person is called an "engineer" does not mean that he knows anything.

To: edward miller who wrote (104084)	6/30/2008 12:14:08 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 206089

Andy Grove (formerly Grob) is a chemist or chemical engineer. One of his proposals about two years was about health care. He focused on the big savings that would occur if poor people cold get preventive care instead of using the emergency room. He proposal was that that would pay for a large part of extending health care the to the 1/3 not covered. The savings from that change would be under 5% of all health care expenditure. So as a health care policy wonk, he gets D. Hybrids are more physics and engineering.