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  PEV: Worse than coal

  I see you continue your unique style of personal attacks, bad science, and agenda. Despite being warned by the Grist editors.

  Have you reconsidered your allegiance to PEHV vehicles, considering recent studies showing increased CO2 footprint for these vehicles? Your "future" solar and wind grid is decades away, and is strewn direct and secondary CO2 and environmental impacts associated with mining, land use, and cost  (not to mention the almost total biodiversity destruction by our local PNW dams- do you support expanded hydro?) With Clean Coal "technologies" and existing base load power projected to be primarily coal derived for the next decade how could you endorse these vehicles that use ZERO renewable energy to power them?  

  Comprehensive life cycle studies, underway from ARB and others, will shed light on our mobility options, and from initial reports I have seen, biodiesel does very very well, compared to all other near and mid-term options.

   On Industrial agrofuels: enemy of the entire planet posted 1 year, 6 months ago 9 Responses

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  In the end, it all comes down

  Total fossil energy input/mile (Thousand BTU/mile)

  Toyota Prius on gasoline 3.4
  Jetta TDI on biodiesel 0.89
  Jetta TDI on petro- diesel 3.7
  Jetta 2.0L gas engine 6.0
  Toyota Fuel Cell vehicle (hydrogen) 2.4

  http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_vehicle_compare.htmlOn Alt fuels comparison posted 3 years, 5 months ago 6 Responses

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  What we have today

  Total fossil energy input/mile (Thousand BTU/mile)

  Toyota Prius on gasoline 3.4
  Jetta TDI on biodiesel 0.89
  Jetta TDI on petro- diesel 3.7
  Jetta 2.0L gas engine 6.0
  Toyota Fuel Cell vehicle (hydrogen) 2.4

  http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_vehicle_compare.htmlOn Tug of war posted 3 years, 5 months ago 15 Responses

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  Anti-progress Propaganda

  biodiversivist,

  Linking to a page of your rants hardly qualifies as a resource to fully understand biofuels.

  Your rants on the subject have been dismissed by qualified folks again and again on this blog. Any reader should simply should click on your name and follow the posts to learn more about the subject than you alone can possible hope to provide.

  You are far from an energy expert-- unless we consider the energy you expend spreading FUD about biofuels.

  Please give it a rest.On Alt fuels comparison posted 3 years, 5 months ago 6 Responses

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  H2

  >>"We're getting closer and closer to the day--probably just beyond the end of this decade--when one or more battery companies hit the right formula and lithium batteries for cars are produced in the millions. Engineers in those companies are like modern day alchemists, trying to turn base materials into gold. If they succeed, they could indeed be very rich.">>

  Big Auto and Big Oil have been spinning this yarn with press releases re Hydrogen cars for 20 years.

  I believe we're past the point of dream solutions, and into the reality of applied solutions.On MIT and me posted 3 years, 5 months ago 16 Responses