Electric Car? How about a Compressed Air Car?

Saw a program on the History Channel last week about modern oil recovery
technology. They pump CO2 into the well, which releases the crude oil from
the shale and they recover something like three times the previous amounts.

Where do they get the CO2, from capturing the exhaust from the local oil and
coal fired powerplants.

Sounds like a good idea.

Recycle the CO2.

Years ago the University of Illinois at Urbana put dry ice in corn fields
and increased corn production, air born fertilizer.



"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk at wow way d0t com wrote in message
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| "Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:27:27 -0800 (PST), Denny
| wrote:
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| The electricity has to come from some where and about 2/3rds to 3/4
| comes from coal fired plants. These plants put huge amounts of CO2,
| Mercury, and Sulphur into the air along with lots of particulate
| matter. That means the so called clean electric car would probably
| cause far more pollution than what's on the road now.
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| Both Hydrogen and Electric cars which are touted as being so clean
| only move the source of pollution from the vehicle to the power
| generation plant. Hydrogen takes even more energy to produce so it is
| even less efficient.
| ...
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| Prof. Heywood at MIT Sloan Labs has co-authored a few papers on this sort
of
| topic that you can find somewhere on the MIT website. There is a lot of
hype
| and nonsense printed out there, but John has always seemed to be pretty
| level headed to me.
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| Aviation content - if it wasn't for his glasses (about 3/8 inch thick)
John
| Heywood would look kinda like Bob Hoover.
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