Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

From the article you linked did you read it?..

286 pounds of coal or 33 minutes of blades spinning on a giant offshore wind turbine, 7 day for solar roof, 3 minutes of large solar array.

I'd tend to think the solar array is the future and not coal don't you?


May be re read this several times..

"Even with all those losses, the electric vehicle road trip is still better for the climate than driving a gasoline-powered car. Burning that much coal would release about 310 kilograms of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, compared with 350 kilograms by the 40 gallons of gasoline. Even though coal tends to emit more pollutants than oil for the amount of energy it generates, the efficiency of the electric vehicle, which recharges its battery with every brake, more than makes up the difference."