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caraher

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2. Actually, this is what they're plugging instead of more practical alternatives
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 11:28 PM
Feb 2015

They want to maintain the model of fuel-buying more or less as-is, and prefer to push a more costly, less efficient way of harnessing clean energy for transportation in order to squeeze every last dollar possible out of fossil fuels.

This student could also have used that solar energy to charge batteries, at far less cost, and with much higher "cell-to-wheels" efficiency.

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