Plug In India
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Shipping is responsible for an estimated 100 crore tonnes of CO2 per year, and 10% of that is shipping oil. Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. In India 39.1%
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." Kwong asked. New York Times ) 10/22/07 ".in
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5. If you charge with solar, is way less. We need to stop BURNING fuel in our cars.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2.
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