Date:         Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:57:23 -0500
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From:         Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fuel economy, Pensioners LAWS
Comments: To: Al Knoll <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
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VERY INTERESTING ARTICAL!!!
   Long winded at first, but makes you think!!!
                                      ERic

Al Knoll wrote:

>As I have been wont to say in the past ...
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>Its fizzix ...
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>You can't win
>You can't break even
>You can't get out of the game
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>So do the best you can with what you have left.
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>In the end it's all cold grey sand at -273 on the big scale.
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>Work the energy equations to see why hydrogen power is foolish today.  Less
>foolish than electric cars though.
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>Do the math. Understand energy transfer and losses then much becomes
>clearer.    Like mudbugs the meat is in de tails.
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>For our forseeable future portable energy will be fossil fuel. We best
>adjust the non portable requirements to match more closely those sources
>that need not be portable so as to conserve those resources that are
>portable.  Ever figger out how much eeelectric extension cord it takes to
>drive to work.  And how you carry it and how you roll it up when you get
>there.  Do the thermo numbers and the answer for now is long dead dinos and
>various coal extracts.
>
>Oh yeah and read the thingy about SUVs and the merkin mentality.
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>p
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>http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html
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