Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Wilkins" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: Batteries - EV Conversion Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 12:33:22 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:34:52 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93c3839b1cabd4b26656cf3215679703"; logging-data="2652818"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gXbNLOs2p+pqdnNtFah9C6dcqOmITe9g=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nl5zqao/vFOrH1KMrocZPCduLRc= X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250226-2, 2/26/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3505.912 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3505.912 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 Bytes: 2631 X-Original-Lines: 1 wrote in message news:vq9v7k$2fgp0$2@dont-email.me... Jim Wilkins wrote: > BP wrote in message news:vq5ne9$1io8u$1@dont-email.me... > > In fact, if one wanted to build a low-emission truck > the use of methane, either compressed or liquefied, makes > a great deal of sense. That tech is already commercial. > And, methane is cheap. > bob prohaska > ----------------------------------------- > > But methane is a fossil fuel and a climate change contributor, more so if > it > leaks. That's merely a case of perfection being the enemy of good enough. Methane is the best bridge fuel we have access to in quantities and at a cost that isn't hugely disruptive. bob prohaska ----------------------------------------- And yet it is inferior to electricity as a heating source?