Comment Re:Where's the energy saving? (Score 1) 400
I can't offer any insight into the efficiency of power plants versus car engines, but I think there's a more important factor that nobody has brought up.
This is definitely a step in the right direction, even if it's only shifting the source of the pollution from the cars to the power plants for now. It's centralizing the problem into a single place, where it will be easier to deal with later. Due to the inherently limited availability of fossil fules, power plants can't run on them forever. When the world inevitably converts to a cleaner solution (hopefully we won't wait until we've exhausted the last piece of coal on Earth and the sky has adopted a permanent fog), the extra pollution caused by automobiles will no longer be a concern.
It's like a good object-oriented program. You want to centralize the dirty stuff in one object rather than replicating it all over your code. Then, when you come back to clean it up, you only have to change it once and *POOF* it automatically propagates down the line. It's just good practice.
This is definitely a step in the right direction, even if it's only shifting the source of the pollution from the cars to the power plants for now. It's centralizing the problem into a single place, where it will be easier to deal with later. Due to the inherently limited availability of fossil fules, power plants can't run on them forever. When the world inevitably converts to a cleaner solution (hopefully we won't wait until we've exhausted the last piece of coal on Earth and the sky has adopted a permanent fog), the extra pollution caused by automobiles will no longer be a concern.
It's like a good object-oriented program. You want to centralize the dirty stuff in one object rather than replicating it all over your code. Then, when you come back to clean it up, you only have to change it once and *POOF* it automatically propagates down the line. It's just good practice.
