[python] Re: electric python
- From: Rhisiart Gwilym <Rhisiart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:20:04 +0000
> ........ 4 hour recharge time
........ and average cost of recharge 0.53 US dollar.
I'd be interested to see what the amount of coal burned to produce
that recharge is?!?
ron
Yeah, that's always the underlying problem -- at the moment -- for
electric vehicles: clean, quiet and apparently very eco, but with a
really nasty, un-eco power-plant upstream, and often an even nastier
fossil-carbon-getting operation upstream of that.
But there are genuinely much cleaner and ecologically more benign
ways to feed the grid, albeit at a much lower level than current huge
demands, about which we aren't being serious enough yet.
And as the Triple Global Crisis (Peak Everything, Climate Shift and
the Sixth Extinction) becomes no longer ignorable/deniable, over the
next few years, we're just going to have to address questions like
that, and do something substantive about them. Or suffer the mother
of all crashes. (I haven't ridden in snow for years now, either: no
snow to ride in)
I suspect -- cautious verb -- that all kinds of pedalled and
pedal-assisted light vehicles will be making a come-back, with
alleweder forms enjoying a real renaissance, reprising the early
years of the twentieth century.
Didn't know about the two kinds of elec/pedal bikes, Dirk. Could be
that we only have the one type here in Britain. I've noticed a few
people using them, and they seem to fall quickly into the habit of
just not pedalling at all, letting the battery do it all. A drawback
of electrobikes, I think. It would be better if they were mostly the
power-only-when-you-pedal kind, as standard. That should make a
really energy-efficient method of transport. Cof, RhG
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