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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Fuel efficiency
Message-ID: <17660117@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:40:04 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>BTW, the electric cars so beloved by some merely relocate the
>pollution problems to the electric power utility.  I feel it's better

True, but let us also not forget that it's MUCH easier to clean up these
problems at a large centralized power producer than it is to clean up millions
of individual sources.  Overall, such a move would be a win for the
environment.  Especially if, along with the move to electric vehicles, there
is a move to cleaner sources of electricity, such as solar, hydrodynamic,
geothermal (and even, in some cases and with appropriate designs, nuclear).
Not to mention the more "exotic" but just as clean sources which are 
potentially "just around the corner," such as solar satellites or ocean 
thermal.


Bob Myers  KC0EW   HP Graphics Tech. Div.|  Opinions expressed here are not
                   Ft. Collins, Colorado |  those of my employer or any other
myers@fc.hp.com                          |  sentient life-form on this planet.