> My own take on this is to use as energy-efficient vehicles > we can afford, but I see no future for an all-electric > vehicle park. I see no future even for my personal all-electric "vehicle park" :-). With maximum speed 45 km/h they are banned from most municipalities. Not that I like driving at 120 km/h, but such a 45 km/h vehicle should have a designated lane, like bicycle, and I don't expect this to happen in the nearest future. > Heavy transports on land should all be electric train-based, ... and banished out and away, underground :-), 'cause nobody but deaf or permanently high on dope would be able to live next to the tracks. Even those light trains are annoying enough, when they dart past your window from 6 am to midnight or to 1 am, every 30 seconds in rush hours, considering both directions. Not to say that busy street with cars is better. > And the nuclear power stations should be built where the consumers > are (human or industrial), not in far-away places, where > only those totally innocent, will be in harms way! Chernobyl nuclear station in Ukraine was fairly remote from Western Europe, and yet, with agreeable winds, radioactive cloud reached Finland and Sweden a few days after the disaster (weakened and dissipated already, but enough to register). Not that I'm against nuclear stations at all - just to note that there is no place on this planet that can be considered far away enough to be completely ignored. Coal smoke and dust from China goes around, because the globe is round (obvious, isn't it), and settles down where you don't want it, and so on. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 06 2009 - 00:55:27 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:31 PDT