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RE: "Electric Bikes Are Taking Off" (International Herald Tribune 3/14
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oil_free_-@comcast.net
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Apr 04, 2007 11:20 PDT
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Jym Dyer wrote:
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=v= Once again you go promoting your business of adding
polluting motors to nonpolluting bicycles on yet another email
list devoted to bicycles. If you want to do the world some
good, go spam some car lists instead.
| | And regarding the comment about charging batteries.
Electricity to charge batteries can come from many natural
sources that go unused around us, such as Solar, photovoltaic,
and solar thermal energy, wind energy, and geo thermal, and
hydroelectric to name a few.
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=v= Gosh, that sounds so squeaky peachy clean and fine. We'll
just let every other electricity need be fueld by dirty sources
so that the renewable sources can be dedicated to making people
feel delusionally good about turning bicycles into polluters.
=v= Your factoid falls flat unless you address the question of
scale: how much renewable energy is available, how many people
can avail themselves of it, etc. Not just waving your hand in
the air in the general direction of eco-grooviness; real facts
and figures.
<_Jym_>
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Give the guy a break. A small electric motor attached to a bicycle hub
still beats a gas-guzzling SUV. Some people have physical impediments
that prohibits extensive bicycling. I cycle everywhere with only human
power, but I'm certainly not going to cut somebody down who adds a
little power-assist.
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Jim
http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/
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