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The Cheapest Way to Power Your Car

Posted December 21, 2007 1:49 PM

From Discover | Environment:

With the price per barrel of crude oil at a formerly panic-inducing $90, and at the pump, the price in many areas is no longer just flirting with $3 a gallon. Imagine a world without gas-­guzzling combustion engines (it's easy if you try), where much of our technology isn't dependent on oil. We could then look objectively at how much each unit of energy—usually measured in Btu—costs and judge which energy sources make the most economic sense.

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12/22/2007 1:36 AM

Petrol/gasoline at $3 per gallon????? - the present real cost at the pump should be around US$117 per gallon, because it is being heavily subsidised after being extracted from the Planetary Energy Bank, and not returned, that energy being mostly wasted as heat, trying to warm up the interplanetary void.

Hydro is cheapest, in almost every Country - hurrah.

The big problem is energy transmission and conversion losses.

These immediate problems need to be overcome, before dirty cars and trucks can be used efficiently....

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12/22/2007 2:22 AM

115000btu's

I doubt that $0.91 for hydropower is accurate either.

There are lots of hidden costs in that figure too

There are usually a bunch of subsides in hydro projects. The beneficiary's rarely pay the actual costs.

There are long term effects on watersheds. on both sides of dams.

The world wide economy has been running for years on undervalued resources!

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