Dunno. But whatever it is, I'm sure it's better than irreversibly releasing them into the earths athmosphere.

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OOOOO I am so converted.

Where do you think the energy comes from to charge the batteries every 2 or 3 days?
Think about the significant losses every time energy is converted from one form into another.
Oil into gasoline into car into miles
vs
oil into power plant fuel into electricity into car into miles

Which do you think burns the most oil in the end, and puts more pollutants intot eh atmosphere?
The marketing works well as the happy owner drives round with a warm feeling that he's doing his bit for the environment, yet he doesn't see the extra wasteage and inefficiencies further up the chain that in fact add more environmental problems than previously existed.

So i take it thats a "no" on me needing to get in contact with my old racing buddies on the solar car team

What about a REVA/G-wiz as a rival to the UF1?

Quote from al heeley :

Where do you think the energy comes from to charge the batteries every 2 or 3 days?
Think about the significant losses every time energy is converted from one form into another.
Oil into gasoline into car into miles
vs
oil into power plant fuel into electricity into car into miles

Which do you think burns the most oil in the end, and puts more pollutants intot eh atmosphere?
The marketing works well as the happy owner drives round with a warm feeling that he's doing his bit for the environment, yet he doesn't see the extra wasteage and inefficiencies further up the chain that in fact add more environmental problems than previously existed.

Well large, modern power plants are better at dealing with pollutants than little cars, each with their own little polluting engine. But you're probably still right about overall pollution, due to the inefficiencies you mention.

But for me the thing is that an all electric car at least gives a choice about how to be fed with energy. If it gets it's power from nuclear or solar sources or whatever then it's definately a lot better for the atmosphere than a conventional, fossil-fueled engine. If power companies insist on producing dirty energy then of course electric cars won't "save the world" but then the underlying problem is more one of energy politics than one inherent to car technology.

Anyway. By driving cars in LFS you'll always be polluting the atmosphere in the same way as an electric car, regardless of the type of engine simulated. But since LFS runs fine on low-end machines I guess we can already qualify LFS as a "green" PC game.