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      12-21-2014, 12:12 PM   #17
Hierlevelz
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Originally Posted by Slops View Post
So taking advantage of electricity that's already there is somehow worse than using gas? I mean your house is already powered and it does not take that much extra for you to charge a car... You guys make it sound as if they have to go throw more coal on the fire because somebody plugged a car in the socket lol
Lol electricity that is always there. Go turn on every appliance in your house and every light and go watch the meter spin out of control as you use up those kilowatts that are "already" there. Do it for a month and let me know how much that free energy cost.

What you're not aware of is how inefficiently that electricity is produced. There hasn't been any nuclear facility installs for quite some time and many a coal plant here in the NE in particular have been decommissioned or used sparingly because of the price of gas. So that leaves gas turbines which are very inefficient even in a combined cycle configuration; relatively speaking. So when more of us jump to electric cars and demand goes up they will have to install more of these turbines. Which produce far more particulates than a single vehicle. And they run 24 hours a day 7 days a week in some instances depending on the market.


And batteries...well don't they have a 10year life span? Where are we going to bury those?

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