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Old 02-15-2012 | 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by N2264J
What Time fails to mention is that the electric vehicle is only one component of a sustainable system. If you're charging you car from solar panels on the roof, you get closer to achieving Tao. And if you've read the Tao, you begin to understand why the Chinese have been around for 8,000 years and our society probably won't last another 200.



China's New Plan for Solar Power Supremacy | ThinkProgress

Everyone was poo-pooing the Kyoto protocol a couple years ago because "if China doesn't comply why bother?" Today, China is poised to beat us in green energy manufacturing game while we wring our pitiful hands about Solyndra and double digit unemployment numbers.

We are about to be taken to school on supply and demand by the Communist Chinese. Welcome to the 21st century, pikers!

In a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, only about 15% - 20% of the energy expended gets to the wheels. In an electric vehicle, over 90% of the energy makes it
to the wheels. That is so totally Tao.
The noteworthy supply and demand issue here is that the government must bribe people (with tax money it confiscates from me) to purchase electric cars, solar panels, etc. It taxes conventional energy use (gasoline, etc.) and, generally, demand is still for ICE.

The generating capacity that the Chinese have built, are building, and will build in coal fired plants dwarfs the capacity you've pointed to in solar.

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