@iguanaman3 posted:The odd thing about EV's is that because electric power is so much more efficient than internal combustion engines they actually produce less carbon emissions even if the power comes from coal which we are phasing out anyway. I am not sure about locomotives but I assume the same would be true for them. Remember they said that the car would never replace the horse too.
Yes, Electric Cars Are Cleaner, Even When The Power Comes From Coal
I took electronic technology. There is a loss involved in every conversion of power from one form to another. There is an efficiency loss in the power plant boilers, another in the turbine/generator combination which creates the electricity, transmission losses from the generating site to the point of use, more loss in the charging process and finally loss in the conversion from electricity to mechanical energy in the vehicle.
This sounds like an awful lot of "free lunch" talk. I will bet you a dollar to a donut that quite a few of these losses were purposely ignored so that the study's findings would support some green political agenda.
