[ExI] How the world collapses

[Samantha Atkins]

On 05/27/2014 06:58 AM, John Clark wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Sondre Bjellås
> <sondre-list at bjellas.com <mailto:sondre-list at bjellas.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I'm the happy owner of a Nissan Leaf, couldn't be more happy!
>
>
> That's nice but in the end your all electric Nissan Leaf is probably
> getting its energy from fossil fuel just like my car, or maybe from
> nuclear.  Due to things like regenerative braking your car might be a
> little more efficient than mine but not enough to change global warming.

Depends on where you are.  In France 79% of electricity is from nuclear
power for instance.  In the US 20% is nuclear power  and around 10% is
from 'renewable' energy of various kinds. 

- samantha
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