Thread: ETA says plug-in cars could "speed climate change" unless we get off coal

AVERAGING THE LIMITS OF THIS RANGE EQUALS: 21.5%. THIS IS THE TOTAL GHG EMISSIONS REDUCTION AS A 5 OF THE TOTAL EMISSIONS OF THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... For about a two years I have been saying electric cars will may achieve a 20% to 30% GHG reduction in 20 years. THe Electric Power REsearch Institute study which teh "Pundit" referenced corroborates what I have been saying....

EPRI and NRDC 2007 The Medium deployment scenario is graphically displayed here: Combining the medium deployment scenario with a scenario plotting a medium CO2 intensity** for the energy mix yields 486 million metric ton reduction in annual GHG emissions by 2050. The low deployment/high CO2 intensity scenario resulted in 163 annual MMT reductions by 2050 and the high/low scenario brought about 612 MMT annual reduction. Cumulative reductions...

maybe national its NG or hydro...but where i live its coal. And the coal is burned dirty. So today PEVs would not solve the issue in place like AZ, NM, S. UT, and S. CO.

for certain species of fish, so basically we have low/no carbon emission environmentalists getting ready to knife fight the salmon protection and other forms of environmentalists. Meanwhile, the global climate change deniers are laughing at us. I'd like to see an expansion of the dams here, with fish ladders and other measures to protect the native fish species, and ban human fishing of these species to compensate. Then see where we are....

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/Feg/co2.shtml

Edited on Fri Nov-13-09 12:03 AM by wtmusic What I would like to read is selected excerpts from it that back up your point of view. Did you also ask faculty to "verify themselves" what you'd written in your master's thesis? Did you refer them to Amazon to read the first pages of books you had referenced? Didn't think so. That's not the way it works there, it's not the way it works here. I'm sorry...

And indeed, and once again, the problem is the kleptocracy in washington not technical issues or economic costs. We are stuck in a rut and the professional befuddlers are doing their well funded best to keep us there.

Energy Information Agency (EIA) gives the following CO2 per one Kilowatt-hour of electricity generated: Coal 2.117 Petroleum 1.915 Gas 1.314 1.321 Other Fuels 1.378 http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/co2_repor... While Natural Gas is better then Coal, it is NOT that much better, about 40% less CO2. We also have to understand when Coal, Hydro and Natural Gas is used in the generation of Electricity AND when we expect to charge the...

Electric cars do have their efficiencies. For example regenerative braking means on a round trip as you go down the hill you generate some of the energy that you can use on your way back up the hill. Also in heavy traffic the car is using far less energy than an internal combustion engine. Ofcourse getting energy from coal is bad we are not in denial. However it is a step we can take towards working on better sources of electrical generation.

When the grid is most often under utilized? Doesn't look like it to me.