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Shody:
What is the energy input (and environmentally unfriendly by-products) required to manufacture and maintain/replace those solar cells? What is the energy cost (and by-products) needed to make and periodically replace all those batteries? Do you have any concept of the industry involved in both, and how much total energy is expended to make and maintain/replace them, not to mention the inescapable toxic by-products?
You're guilty of looking only at the end result, and ignoring the rest of the process required to reach that end. The rest of that process is no prettier than that for the current petroleum industry, and in fact it might even be worse, when scaled-up to the same proportion.
This is exactly what I was talking about in my reply to Gryphon.
Mark
(Yes, Shody, it's *that* Mark, because this happens to be a group I created ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: NorCalPermaculture@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NorCalPermaculture@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Shody Ryon
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:23 PM
To: NorCalPermaculture@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [NorCalPermaculture]"Whatcha Gonna Drive?” for a Sustainable World
This guy charges his EV with batteries charged by solar panels and has received $4,000 from the government for building his EV.
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