[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Tim Schmidt]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> I, for one, would absolutely love to have a fully electric car.  I say
> we just go steal a ZPM from a STARGȦTE SET.  :-)

We have equally portable, equally dense forms of energy already...
they're called RTGs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

They're generally good for something like 50 years of high quality
electric power.

There is the slight problem of mild radioactivity, however.

--tim