[geeks] electric cars

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/10/22 Sun PM 10:17:56 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] electric cars

>On 10/21/06, James Fogg <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:
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>> A careful calculation of the requirements for 100% soybean oil
>> conversion from fossil fuel showed that a beanfield equivalent to a
>> square 500 square miles on each side in size could replace all our
>> fossil fuel needs.
>
>I am having trouble parsing that sentence, James.

He's saying that with a 500 mile square patch of soybean plants, both he and his scientist friend could ween themselves off fossil fuel ;^)

A 500 x 500 square mile patch of land is pretty darn big, that's what, 250,000 square miles? What would the cost of a quarter million square miles of USA land cost, let alone irrigation, planting, and harvesting...

Gasoline is cheaper than Coca Cola - $2/gallon for Gas around here (central NJ), $2.58 for Coca Cola ($1.29 for a 2 liter bottle, 4 liters <> 1 Gallon), despite gasoline being taxed tremendously and most likely travels over a thousand miles to get to my local gas station...

Lionel