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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

O.K., all you mechanically/electrical engineering type/inclined folks.  How 
come they can't use the wheels of a vehicle to generate electricity to 
replace the electricity used?  Kinda make the hubs the equivalent of he-man 
sized alternator/generator type thingys?  Why is it that they have to drive 
and then "fill up"?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I listen to the praises of electric cars and why didn't we develop and
> manufacture them decades ago.
>
> People seem to think that instead of pumping gas every few days and 
> handing
> over $60 to the service station, all we'd have to do is plug in the cars 
> much
> like we recharge our cell phones and iPods.
>
> The gist of my point is this, if we replaced all the current gasoline cars
> with plug-in electric cars, the electricity to replace the gasoline just 
> used in
> personal commutting would require another electric grid as large as the 
> one
> in place now.
>
> That is, the energy to run those cars has to come from somewhere and if we
> are not buring the oil in our cars, we will be burning the oil or coal in 
> the
> generating plants.
>
> No, solar and wind won't hack it.
>
> Some day maybe the nut will crack and we will look at some other solution
> rather than just another way to leap into the saddle and go where we will.
>
> Maybe.
>
>
>
> James   </HTML>
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