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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HPilot who wrote (22585)	8/1/2008 12:42:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Hugh, I think you might be confusing the exhaust pipe with the inlet manifold in fusion reactors: <http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/fusion-basics.html > Helium is what they get after the hydrogen [in deuterim or tritium forms] bump into each other and combine, releasing energy which can be used to generate electricity. Yes, battery powered cars are not a slam dunk. As you say, range, capital cost, battery life, weight are big issues. But it looks as though there has been good progress and the Prius is some evidence of that. The Volt is more. High petrol prices provides most of the "progress". Mqurice