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Article #1855Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
From: Paul E. Schoen
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:02
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:02
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"Damon Hill" <damon1SIX1@comcast.netnet> wrote in message news:Xns9AA073539FFC4damon161attbicom@127.0.0.1... > Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in > news:7bir24l7pmsrp15j5sn7dav4ktp8fim2h4@4ax.com: > >> However, gas, electric, and such will soon be out of fashion. What we >> need is a nuclear powered automobile.: >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon> > > p-B11 fusion had better work, and be scalable down to that level. > Aneutronic fusion might indeed be about to happen, but the scalability > seems to be in the other direction. > > Maybe a home reactor. Not likely either, at least in my lifetime. If Charles Cagle is right, there's a good chance: http://www.singtech.com/ I think Big Oil had a lot to do with influencing GM to abandon and sabotage their own EV program, just as they have tried to reverse any trend toward greater fuel economy by encouraging the glorification of horsepower, size, weight, speed, and competitive driving. There are a lot of options for efficient vehicles: http://electricandhybridcars.com/index.php/pages/electriccarnews.html Paul
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X-Google-Thread: 112d1e,11cc866c366c95ec X-Google-Thread: 103407,11cc866c366c95ec X-Google-Attributes: gid112d1e,gid103407,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!out04b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!news.coretel.net!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Schoen" <pstech@smart.net> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,aus.electronics References: <482d8412$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <482db7b1$0$918$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr> <YSiXj.277$co7.217@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com> <7bir24l7pmsrp15j5sn7dav4ktp8fim2h4@4ax.com> <Xns9AA073539FFC4damon161attbicom@127.0.0.1> Subject: Re: Who Killed the Electric Car? Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:02:35 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Lines: 32 Message-ID: <482df70c$0$11166$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net> Organization: CoreTel NNTP-Posting-Host: 4368b6ff.news.coretel.net X-Trace: DXC=5LY]Ff0kDJDeN;__R4B8fGcYX6N<OEXQK4Hf_iQh_@@M`bYXCiLIN3@c4nLf3S3XcC_6noQmMSG@J X-Complaints-To: abuse@coretel.net