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benburch

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Fri Jun-04-04 02:00 PM
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6. Exactly.

Also, I would maintain that an efficient storage battery and an electric motor/generator with regenerative braking would be more efficient if you really want to displace the pollution to a central power plant.

Now, if the grid were to be run by wind, hydro, tidal, and solar inputs, none of which work particularly well with a moving vehicle :) you could make a good case for a storage car. But even so, compressed air is not a great medium for the reasons I cited above (radiative loss of thermal energy in the compressed state.)

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