[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: TSHTF

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Lawrence Lile:

>Phoenix motors, same form factor as an F-150, $50,000 new, which is
>about the same as the life cycle cost of an F-150 including gas and IC
>engine maintenance over 200,000 miles.

     Cool!  Interesting website.  I wish I had the price of one, and 
that they were selling in my area.  Does an electric engine not 
require maintenance?

>A cottage industry of car converters who will convert a small pickup to
>all-electric with standard lead-acid technology is starting to spring
>up.  There is one in Lawrence KS, although I don't have a link.  $11,000
>will turn your S-10 into a zero-carbon vehicle.

     Yeah, but it's really difficult to get a good glider here in the 
salty northeast, and I haven't saved up enough yet, anyway.  Working 
on it; as soon as the Insight is paid off, that money starts saving 
toward the next car, which will be electric if I can manage it. 
Coming soon...

>OK, Ok, You are right, $1 a peak watt production cost is not $1 a peak
>watt installed cost.  As W.C. Fields would say, "Details, Details..."

     Saving up for those, too.  Bought a bunch of vacuum tubes this 
summer, but the account keeps going up, as I tax myself on fossil 
fuel expenditures.

-Speireag.

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