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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN COMP.
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:37:16 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan6.081331.9435@news.ysu.edu> <1993Jan7.002419.460@athena.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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- In article <1993Jan7.002419.460@athena.mit.edu>, drela@athena.mit.edu (Mark
- Drela) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan6.081331.9435@news.ysu.edu>, ah995@yfn.ysu.edu (T. Turner)
- |> writes:
- |> |>
- |> |> ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN COMPETITION
- |> |> .
- |> |> .
- |> |> According to Baker, the electric vehicle presents an exciting new
- |> |> technology that will create jobs and improve the environment. "We
- |> |> have the technology to make a dependable, practical, environmentally
- |> |> sound electric vehicle," he said. "The challenge now is to prepare
- |> |> our infrastructure to support it."
- |>
- |> Is the "environmentally sound" claim for real?
- |> << rest deleted >>
-
- Any sentence that brings cars and "environmentally sound" in close
- proximity should be taken with several bucketfuls of salt.
-
- There may well be many applications where electric technologies
- in personal vehicles reduces environmental impacts from transportation,
- but boosterism which exaggerates this does them a disservice.
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
-