Comments on: Dreaming of electric cars http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/07/04/dreaming-of-electric-cars/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david williams http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/07/04/dreaming-of-electric-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 david williams Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:42:30 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/climate-change/dreaming-of-electric-cars/#comment-1612 oil is a finite source oil will run out bio fuel cannot sustain the transport industry , the world would starve. nuclear generated electricity alongside rnewables is the only viable answer therefore the plug in vehicle is the only viable way for certain transport vehicles e.g car how shipping will be solved i don't know. I hope the boffins are already working on that one. Also air travel will have to be increasingly rationed, and probably all available bio fuel will be diverted to the airlines. oil is a finite source
oil will run out

bio fuel cannot sustain the transport industry , the world would starve.

nuclear generated electricity alongside rnewables is the only viable answer

therefore the plug in vehicle is the only viable way for certain transport vehicles e.g car

how shipping will be solved i don’t know. I hope the boffins are already working on that one. Also air travel will have to be increasingly rationed, and probably all available bio fuel will be diverted to the airlines.

]]> By: Gus Grand http://www.globaldashboard.org/2008/07/04/dreaming-of-electric-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-1441 Gus Grand Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:21:05 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/climate-change/dreaming-of-electric-cars/#comment-1441 WWF brought out a paper in April 'Plugged in: the end of the oil age' see:http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000004946.asp It argues that even with some coal fired generation, electric cars are less polluting than traditional ones, mostly due to the woeful inefficency of the internal combustion engine, but also because you solve the billions of sources problem by burning the fuel at a power station... emissions that could then be captured by CCS. WWF brought out a paper in April ‘Plugged in: the end of the oil age’ see:http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000004946.asp It argues that even with some coal fired generation, electric cars are less polluting than traditional ones, mostly due to the woeful inefficency of the internal combustion engine, but also because you solve the billions of sources problem by burning the fuel at a power station… emissions that could then be captured by CCS.

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