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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by osigurdson on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:30AM (#35652256)
Most power generation facilities are natural gas fired, using large aero derivitive gas turbine engines (essentially the same engine that is in the 747 - LM6000 vs CF6 for example) with a combined cycle steam turbine to capture the energy from excess heat. This arrangement has a thermodynamic efficiency of 60%. Even with electrical transmission losses, the efficiency is still far better (1.7X) than having the power plant located under the hood of the car.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by zamnos on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:27AM (#35652690)
Not to mention, policing one large facility for compliance with emissions is much easier than trying to monitor every single one of millions of cars on the road.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by Consultant32452 on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:15AM (#35654082)
It's much easier to regulate millions of nobodies with no power than it is to regulate a single wealthy donor.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by osigurdson on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:39PM (#35658921)
Even with a car, you aren’t necessarily regulating millions of individuals - primarily just manufacturers. I suppose there is the odd case where “old joe” removed his catalytic converter and is polluting more than others but that is probably rare.

I don’t get your point on centralization however - more efficient but less robust (just like in software).

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by osigurdson on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:50PM (#35662180)
Correction - I do get your point
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by Consultant32452 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:30PM (#35670156)
For necessarily centralized industries like car manufacturing the regulations are written to protect the wealthy incumbents competition more than to protect consumers.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by pitaj on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:04AM (#35654865)
Also, methane produces less carbon for the same amount of energy as larger hydrocarbons like gasoline and diesel.
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