[Vwdiesel] VW modifications, etc. Also any USA Diesel car Clubs?

[pmdolan at sasktel.net]

Yes, hydro-electric power and wind-generated power are the exceptions when it comes to operating pollutants and hydrocarbon consumption.  However, there are those who would argue that the HUGE environmental damage of flooding fully offsets those benefits - I am not one of those.  However, the entire business of transmitting long distance, and the actual core issue of WASTING so much of it, that takes so much very inefficient generation, transmission and distribution to replace, IS one issue owith which I get really concerned.

While I admire veggy oil bio-d efforts, I am a fan of large scale, sustainable, renewables that make sense.  For me, that means algae production of oil, which can be done on a relatively small amount of arid wasteland, using things like domestic waste (sewage and some garbage) as feedstocks - killing two birds with one stone.  The beauty of it all, is that the most efficient method of transmitting and using the energy - diesels - is able to do so with no change in the infrastructure or prime movers.

Ramble over....Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: LBaird119 at aol.com
Date: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:01 pm
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] VW modifications,	etc.  Also any USA Diesel car Clubs?

>  I was wondering about that as well.  I remember reading years 
> ago about 
> how the newer cars actually released less polutants into the air 
> per quantity 
> 
> of fuel burned than a power plant used to recharge the batteries, 
> to go the 
> same distance in an electric car.  Final decision was that 
> electric cars 
> were worse for the environment than petrol given the measured 
> polutants, gasses, etc.
>  Of course here in the PNW where hydro power is the norm it's a l
> ittle different.   Then again the government doesn't consider 
> hydro 
> power as a renuable resource!
>     Loren
> 
> In a message dated 4/10/2006 9:50:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> pmdolan at sasktel.net writes:
> 
> > Charging the batteries of a Prius at home will save petroleum?  
> How is 
> > that?
> > 
> 
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