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POPSPelosi Doesn't Know That Natural Gas Is a Fossil Fuel And then, let's not leave Obama out.v Obama says, "I want to make sure in ten years, no more using oil. Not going to use oil in ten years, I'm going to make sure it happens." How are you going to do that, sir? You don't run the market. "I'm going to make sure we have a million cars running on electricity in ten years." Where's electricity going to come from, bumble brain? You don't want any nuclear power plants built to produce it, where the hell are you going to get the electricity, where we going to get it? We get it from coal. Pardon my incredulity here, folks, but, you know, we always ask ourselves, how in the world do we get these people? Why does neither party have somebody worth voting for half the time?
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POPS106 mpg "Air Car" Creates Buzz.. & questions
The concept is similar to how a locomotive works, except compressed air -- not steam -- moves the engine's pistons, said Shiva Vencat, vice president of MDI and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors. Gas still plays a role The six-seater planned for the U.S. market would be able to reach speeds of more than 90 mph and have a range of more than 800 miles thanks to a dual energy engine, Vencat said.. The design calls for one or more tanks of compressed air under the car's floor, as well as a tank holding at least 8 gallons of fuel. Whether the engine uses just air or both air and fuel would depend on how fast the car is going. It would run purely on compressed air at speeds less than 35 mph, Vencat said. Since the car could only go a short distance when using just air, fuel is needed to get the full range, he explained. "Above 35 mph, there is an external combustion system, which is basically a heater that uses a little bit of gasoline or biofuel or ethanol or vegetable oil that wil
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POPSParis Hilton's Energy Plan WTF?!?! Paris has a better energy plan than O and McCain? It's a sad state. Maybe one day we'll get leaders instead of half-ass politicians.
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POPSA reply to "Electric Cars is it the real answer?" by jt3600 Hybrids and electric cars are just in the developement stages. Sure there are kinks to work out, costs to be brought down, infrastructure to be expanded. The thing is, it is a start toward another way of being, thinking. Change can be revolutionary and evolutionary. But change things must.
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POPSTH!NK Ox – A Fully Electric Car Think, with more than 17 years of experience in developing and producing electric vehicles is launching one of its models 'The Ox' in North America. The cars will start selling in the US next year but the actual mass roll out is slated for sometime in 2011,
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POPS'Fuel battery' could take cars beyond petrol ts negative electrode, or anode, is made from vanadium boride, which serves double-duty as a fuel too. But unlike the flowing fuel of a fuel cell, the material is held internally, like the anode material of a battery. The vanadium boride reacts with a constant stream of oxygen, as in a fuel cell, provided by the positive electrode, or cathode. This brings in a supply of air from outside. The cell has a theoretical energy capacity of 27 kilowatt hours per litre, compared to 9.7 kilowatt hours per litre for gasoline. But both approaches are limited by practical factors to smaller figures.
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POPSElectric Cars ! Is it the real answer ? while I believe that we need to do something, have we really given this the full thought it deserves. Then when looking for energy for this the screams will be for more nuclear power source.
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POPSSan Jose Leading the Way I'm very proud to see San Jose leading the way on this effort, being the first major city to implement electric car charging stations. Because not everyone has easy access to power outlets in their homes - especially people who live in apartment complexes - this type of system will help make electric cars more of a reality.
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POPSThe market for plug-in cars is fast approaching Very exciting stuff. This is no longer the talk of what's ifs and hypotheticals...it's reality and it's coming soon. In my opinion, the introduction of plug-in cars will be a major catalyst for the development of additional sources of energy - including more wind and solar generated. It will also be the tipping point for allocating the massive resources needed to upgrade our nation's power grid.
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POPSEBB TIDE RUSH IN ! Now if we could place more of these around the world then I could get behind the electric cars.