How the EPA disobeys the laws of thermodynamics
Is this just another way for a do good government to dictate that the least smart student in the class gets an A. The socialist inspired nincompoops at the EPA believe the plug in needs higher grades just because three Nobel Prize winners told them so. Two of the prize winners won for peace the other for physics.
The EPA allows plug in vehicle makers to claim an equivalent miles per gallon (MPG) based on the electricity powering the cars motors being 100% efficient. This implies the electric power is generated at the power station with 100% efficiency, is transmitted and distributed through thousands of miles of lines without any loss, is converted from AC to DC without any loss, and the charge discharge efficiency of the batteries on the vehicle is also 100%. Of course the second law of thermodynamics tells us all of these claims are poppycock and that losses of real energy will occur in each step of the supply chain of getting power to the wheels of a vehicle powered with an electric motor.
But but but, it’s fundie, young earth creationist, bitter-clinging Rethuglicans & Teabagging Partyers that are anti-Science!
Obama is within his power to repeal those oppressive LAWS of thermodynamics … for the childrens!
h/t Big Government
For people that are always wailing about how they are on the side of science, they sure don’t practice it.
They also neglect to mention that that electricity generation is likely being done by a facility that produces what they have designated as pollution and that they intend to drive those facilities into bankruptcy and closing.
Where do they intend to derive the power to charge those electric doodlebugs then? And at what cost to the owner?
If electricity costs a $1.00 a killowatt, how economical will even a car that gets 100mpg or is 100% efficienct?
This just shows that Nixon was a progressive Liberal and not a conservative. Him and Poppy Bush.
that electricity generation is likely being done by a facility that produces what they have designated as pollution.
remember most of this is California-driven, so a lot of those emissions take place out of state cause failshit california can’t build new power generation facilities unless they’re boutiquey highly-subsidized wind/solar ones
so then the EPA gets to ass-fuck Texas and New Mexico for making the power for California is how this works
When you as a non leftist hear the term “reality based” you are supposed to hear “rational, analytical, objective, empirical, observation based”.
But that’s not what it means.
What is means is “on the right side of history’s inevitable dialectic progress towards a utopia”. It”s just a less obnoxious form of “Revolutionary truth,” “Lysenkoism,” or ” the new anti-oppressor founded science of the proletariat.”
Sadly the material energetic universe that science tries to measure and describe is not a social construction and can’t be hidden from the minds of people with much success for long.
Lying about how well a machine works won’t make the machine any better or worse than it really is. It might or might not boost sales or hold them down. But ultimately the machine is what it is and anyone who uses it will eventually see what it is.
– Darleen, this is why you’ll never win a Pulitzer. You simply do not understand the nuanced thinking of your oh so elite betters.
– How many times must you be told?
– Everything is 100% efficient when you’re paying for it with other peoples money.
Hysteresis.
That’s what it’s called.
– Personally I prefer the term “Hystericaldynamics”.
Uhhh, how much electricity is in a gallon again?
Indeed. And is accompanied by other powers as well, powers fit to declare ‘thus and such is so and so’:
Price? Ha. That’s a laugh.
“Uhhh, how much electricity is in a gallon again?”
– Enough to power the entire earth for many centuries.
– But you better find a way to release it slowly, or it could ruin your whoke day.
– Oppenhiemer mentionrs in his memoirs that as he prepared to throw the switch on the first atom bomb test at White sands New Mexico:
“I thought to myself – well here goes – either I’ll go down in history as a leader in science or we’ll all meet again in heaven…”
For people that are always wailing about how they are on the side of science, they sure don’t practice it.
Why go to the trouble of practicing it when affecting a pose has the same effect?
On policy, that is. Not on science.
It isn’t science, it is religion.
They are practicing for November, to make 44% equal to 51%
“Uhhh, how much electricity is in a gallon again?”
Fuel – Liquid,
US Gallons GGE GGE% BTU/Gal kWh/Gal
Gasoline (base)[2] 1.0000 100.00% 114,000 33.41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent
we are so effed:
Even Karl Rove supports wind energy. Will Romney get on board?
Karl Rove could be a wind farm all by hisself.
Thermodynamics is on the wrong side of history. It must be dealt with.
we are so effed cont:
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