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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On May 18, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> k1lky AT earthlink.net writes:
> > The most recent issue of Technology Review, the public-oriented
> > journal of MIT, has an article about a battery company.  The article
> > is quite encouraging. ...
>
> 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.

I won't go looking for the energy economics analysis for that, but I  
wouldn't be surprised.

>  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.

I moved to the town I grew up in in 1950. Things were about the same  
as they'd been for the previous hundred years or more, (except for  
cars).  From my house, you could walk to:
 - the high school
 - one of the one-room school houses in use for the elementary grades
 - a general store (ice cream, boots, bolts, ammunition, and tractor  
repair etc.)
 - the library
 - the post office
 - places to fish
 - lots of dairy cow pastures.

 The things you can walk to now are the library, the post office and  
places to fish.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180