Tim Hutzler wrote in a message to Charlie Young:
CY>I wonder what the total efficiency would be for an electric
CY>car vs. the traditional gasoline powered car?
 TH> From an energy standpoint, the effiency is greater. But from
 TH> an economic one. It is far more costly. Electricity is
 TH> simply more expensive than gasoline.
 TH> Now, if one can take their car motor and place it on a fixed
 TH> station, cogenerating heat and electricity. Then it would
 TH> pay, IF you have a use for the heat byproduct. But, for most
 TH> of us that simply isn't practical.
Hmm,  I wonder whether something like that would work with one of those 
arrangements that stores excess heat in the ground...

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