Dan Luke wrote:

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The electric automobile will remain insignificant until battery technology
is greatly improved. I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket.

No basket will hold all the eggs. Diversified energy production/use will be
the key, IMO.

Battery technology is still in the middle of a revolution. Check on what's
coming with nano-tech supercapacitors, too.

I have; by any way you measure it, supercapacitors have far less energy
capacity then chemical batteries and basic physics says it will allways
be that way.

Also, capacitors make the charging circuitry god awful complex at high
power levels.

As for bio-diesel from algae, that was said about corn ethenol; we'll
see.

Indeed. But the yield/acre for oil algae is far more promising than corn
ethanol, which was never a good idea unless you are a corn farmer.

Avacados give a higher yield/acre then corn.

Unless the intent was to subsidize corn farmers, corn is about the
worst thing one could pick.

--
Jim Pennino

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