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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.

A score of 103 out of 100 could be called kind of... Insane. This is exactly what the Tesla Model S P85D in 'Insane' mode received during testing by Consumer Reports (CR), a score so off-the-charts good that it actually broke the scale and forced CR to revise how they measure things. The official score with the new, updated methodology will be 100/100.

What made the Tesla break the ratings was the combination of supercar performance and extreme energy efficiency. These things haven't historically been found together, and so CR never had a car that go such high scores in both columns.

Impressive, but alas...traffic.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday August 30 2015, @12:41AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday August 30 2015, @12:41AM (#229632)

    I agree that car batteries _should_ get reprocessed and recycled, but the current lead-acid battery handling system is not at all confidence inspiring.

    Solar "looks" like a clean technology on it's face, but when you factor in all of what goes into making solar panels, there's a lot of not so great stuff happening on that side of the process, and again, there's the disposal / recycling side of things to consider - just because something goes to a recycling plant doesn't mean that it has zero environmental impact, lots of recyclers have less than stellar environmental records.

    I tend to like nuclear because, in the USA and Western Europe at least, people seem to take it seriously, unlike coal's ash and heavy metals emissions, diesel soot, natural gas (fracking) by-products, etc. If we ever get to practical fusion, that seems like a good path.

    Compressed air storage is a nice storage tech, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with some pretty hilarious failure modes, much worse than pumping water into high elevation reservoirs. Wind seems to be a pretty "honest" power source, you see almost all the bad stuff directly, too bad it's not enough to supply our present appetite.

    When I look at a place like Nauru, I can't help but think what a nice nuke generator could do for the place... basically unlimited electricity, bring in electric powered earth moving machines and reshape the interior landscape back to something attractive - desalinate ocean water for agricultural use... it would be awesome, and if the nuke was mismanaged and leaked, it probably wouldn't make the place any worse off than it presently is without it. No other (currently available) energy tech could transform a place like that. The Nauruans had enough money to do it at one point, but they didn't manage the money too well...

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