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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND cars AND electric vehicles AND energy efficiency AND placemaking
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Put a Plug in It
On electric cars |
Umbra Fisk |
23 Aug 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dearest Umbra, Why are electric cars considered so great? They don't pollute the air where they are driven. But certainly when they are plugged in they use energy from a power plant, which does pollute and also contributes to global warming. Doesn't this just move the pollution from one area to another? Then you have to consider that there are power losses when electric energy travels over transmission lines. Are electric cars more effi ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, placemaking (all these topics) |
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