The electric car you feel is creating no emissions...

[francoHFW]

If a Nissan Volt was charged entirely by coal power, it's total emissions would be equivalent to a gas car that got 30 mpg.

In places like California, that number goes up to 75-80 mpg.

In terms of cost, it's equivalent to about 100 mpg.

Total bs, and it's a Nissan Leaf.

Yes, I got the name wrong. No, the numbers are not BS.

Retracted already, Doc.

 

[AntiParty]

Title should be; "If electric cars were powered by coal"

Misleading thread.

 

[Old Rocks]

These 'Conservatives' are the same type of people that used to make fun of the horseless carriages. Anything new that they do not understand, which is about everything, they immediatly start denigrating and making up nonsense concerning the new.

 

[AntiParty]

These 'Conservatives' are the same type of people that used to make fun of the horseless carriages. Anything new that they do not understand, which is about everything, they immediatly start denigrating and making up nonsense concerning the new.

Some people always fight what they don't understand...

Ever see the childrens movie "The Croodes"? It pretty much puts it into perspective.

 

[Politico]

"It's not powered by Coal! It runs on batteries that get recharged by plugging into a wall socket!"

Does the energy fairy power those outlets?

 

[Mad Scientist]

These 'Conservatives' are the same type of people that used to make fun of the horseless carriages. Anything new that they do not understand, which is about everything, they immediatly start denigrating and making up nonsense concerning the new.

Always with the condescension, typical Liberal.

"I'm smarter than you! You're just ignorant and stupid! I can't explain, it just IS!"

Can Liberals do anything without Gov't subsidies? No.

Can Liberals do anything with out Gov't passing a Law that FORCES everyone to do things THEIR WAY? No.

 

[francoHFW]

^^ The last refuge of a RW dingbat- change the channel, fool.

Unfortunately, with today's new bs propaganda, pander to the greedy idiot rich, hater dupes ARE always wrong. Thanks for wrecking the nonrich and the country with Voodoo, 9/11 and the stupidest wars ever, a corrupt world depression, and 5 years of mindless obstruction, fear mongering, and phony crises.

Rush and Pub propaganda- aided by idiotic, cowardly, controversy and ratings only corporate media, almost killed the Chevy Volt, Motor Trend Car of the Year. STUPID bs about fires everywhere and costing $278k each (NOT, R and D when just a few produced- just all the facts left out...)- Now selling as hoped even without RW buyers...

 

[bripat9643]

Lightning Electric Motorcycle Fastest Electric MotorcycleLightning Motorcycles

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The fastest production motorcycle that you can buy is an electrict. It would be no problem to build an electric car that would exceed 250 mph.

Yeah, it could exceed 250 mph for about 10 minutes. Then it would run out of juice.

Silly ass, you think they run Indy cars on 20 gallon tanks

No, and they sure as hell don't run them on batteries.

 

[bripat9643]

Oh yeah, and the Lightning electric motorcycle won last years Pikes Peak Hillclimb by a whopping 20 second lead over the second place motorcycle.

That race lasts about 5 minutes.

 

[bripat9643]

This just in... The electric car you feel is creating no emissions is actually powered by coal in the most inefficient way humanly possible... Movie at 11.



peace...

My guess is some source of media exposed that the energy used by the Manufacturing Plant of electric cars was ran by coal. The "most inefficient way possible" is your own words.

You know that battery powered car manufacturers could run off of any type of energy, correct?

Also, the cars can be charged by any source of energy. If you don't like Coal, that's on you. It could be charged by Ocean Wave energy, Wind Energy, Sun Energy.....But all of those are natural and don't fill pockets with $$$ unless Corporations corner the market and buy Gov.

So how are you going to get to work on a cloudy or calm day?

 

[bripat9643]

No wonder coal should be shut down until they get some technology. Then we'll control the world....we just have natural resources coming out of our ears, and think we're geniuses...

Coal should be shut down until they get some technology? What do you suppose your local hospital is supposed to do to run the operating room while we're all waiting for the power company to "get some technology?"

That statement has to go on the list of 10 dumbest things ever posted in this forum.

 

[bripat9643]

These 'Conservatives' are the same type of people that used to make fun of the horseless carriages. Anything new that they do not understand, which is about everything, they immediatly start denigrating and making up nonsense concerning the new.

No, we're the same people who make fun of perpetual motion machines and devices that make cars run on water.

Liberal delusions that their intelligence is superior are entertaining.

 

[bripat9643]

These 'Conservatives' are the same type of people that used to make fun of the horseless carriages. Anything new that they do not understand, which is about everything, they immediatly start denigrating and making up nonsense concerning the new.

Some people always fight what they don't understand...

Ever see the childrens movie "The Croodes"? It pretty much puts it into perspective.

People also fight what they do understand. It took decades to get doctors to understand accept the germ theory of disease and clean up their operating rooms.

 

[francoHFW]

No wonder coal should be shut down until they get some technology. Then we'll control the world....we just have natural resources coming out of our ears, and think we're geniuses...

Coal should be shut down until they get some technology? What do you suppose your local hospital is supposed to do to run the operating room while we're all waiting for the power company to "get some technology?"

That statement has to go on the list of 10 dumbest things ever posted in this forum.

ACTUALLY, they're being switched to natural gas, which we ALSO have more of than anyone else...duh.

 

[WinterBorn]

If, by "pollution," you mean CO2, then it very well might:

TVA: Coal-Fired Power Plant



How much CO2 do 320,000 gas powered cars produce in a day? I'll bet it's less than 14,000 tons.

So you are saying that by burning 14,000 tons of coal they will release 14,000 tons of CO2?

No, it will release considerably more.

The molar mass of O2 is 32 grams/per mole.
The molar mass of C is 12 grams per mole.

So burning 14,000 tons of pure carbon will produce (32+12)/12 *14,000 or 51,333 tons of CO2

I think you need to rework this.

A ton is a set unit of weight. You are claiming that starting with a certain weight of coal, by burning it you create enough gas to weigh over 3 times what the coal did?

 

[bripat9643]

So you are saying that by burning 14,000 tons of coal they will release 14,000 tons of CO2?

No, it will release considerably more.

The molar mass of O2 is 32 grams/per mole.
The molar mass of C is 12 grams per mole.

So burning 14,000 tons of pure carbon will produce (32+12)/12 *14,000 or 51,333 tons of CO2

I think you need to rework this.

A ton is a set unit of weight. You are claiming that starting with a certain weight of coal, by burning it you create enough gas to weigh over 3 times what the coal did?

That's right, because CO2 also contains Oxygen. Over 2/3s of the weight of CO2 is from the Oxygen.

 

[NLT]

Speak for yourself. I live in California, we get almost none of our power from coal.

California 14.84 cents per kilowatt hr (gas/solar/wind)
Texas 8.6 cents per kilowatt hr (coal)

Califronia has the most rolling blackouts of any state in the US.

 

[Seawytch]

These are popping up all over the great state of California too...

Electric is the way to go. Waiting for the Electric Mini...

 

[bripat9643]

These are popping up all over the great state of California too...

Electric is the way to go. Waiting for the Electric Mini...

What happens on a cloudy day?

 

[Seawytch]

Speak for yourself. I live in California, we get almost none of our power from coal.

California 14.84 cents per kilowatt hr (gas/solar/wind)
Texas 8.6 cents per kilowatt hr (coal)

Califronia has the most rolling blackouts of any state in the US.

Rolling blackouts are Texas' future without reform, generators say