On May 10, 11:09*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
After hearing a comment about this on a PBS talking-heads show, I found
a couple articles confirming what was said: a team of researchers
compared turning an equal amount of biomass into biofuel to producing
electricity from it to power an electric car. The winner? The electric
car, by far (on the order of 80% more).

Articles hehttp://www.technologyreview.com/ener...90508/biomass_...

Of course, this is only part of the picture. While this indicates it
would make more sense to put our eggs in the electric-car basket, rather
than funding more biofuel research, the problem remains of the high cost
of electric vehicles, and the greater difficulty of converting the
world's cars to run on electricity rather than an "alternative" fuel.
(Not to mention the yet-unsolved problems of better battery storage.)

But it's interesting. Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Filling up the 9.5 gallon tank on my Saturn every 300 miles is enough
of a hassle for me (I wish it went 500). I cant imagine ever driving
a vehicle that only went 50 or 60 miles, then it began to use gasoline
from a 5 gallon or less tank. I say 5 gallon tank because after you
fit the batteries there is not much room left for spare tire, decent
gas tank, and interior room. The range barrier must break 400 miles
before any re-fueling to make these new vehicles not be a royal PIA.
In my area I have to travel a bit for a station and refueling is
fairly inconvenient.