[SLL] On To Victory for Tux!!

[Bob Hiltner]

Oh, please, please tell me that hasn't become an entrenched U.L....  

Just for STARTERS, the article assumes 300,000 life for the Dork Mobile
vs. 100k for the prius (not that I'm biased or anything :-).  It then
goes on to further lies about the source of the nickel in NiMH
batteries....  So it goes.

Hey, did you hear that it costs more and is harder on the environment to
run that Linux stuff than Windows? [ducking] ;-)

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/questionable-report-claims-hummer-is-
greener-than-prius/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227387&threshold=1&comments
ort=0&mode=thread&cid=18419625

 -Bob
BTW, definitely not thousands of pounds or even hundreds of pounds of
batteries in my Civic Hybrid.  Though I don't have the figure, based on
volume, I doubt that it's more than 100lbs.

-----Original Message-----

> I question net savings with the current hybrids as (a) they're hauling
> around thousand(s) of pounds of batteries which take a lot of energy 
> itself, and (b) their efficiencies disappear in highway driving where 
> they're running primarily on the gasoline engines.  The numbers I've 
> seen say that there's no savings with these hybrids in the first five 
> years of ownership in average driving.

According to this: 

http://www.targetofopportunity.com/prius_hummer.htm

If you take the birth to death energy cost of a hybrid as compared to a 
hummer, you're better off with the "gas guzzling hummer".

It's starting to look like biodiesel is the next big jump if you're
trying 
to be eco-friendly.


..Chuck..