From a book review: The authors blithely claim that there are "three basic ways to store energy: as heat, as electricity or as kinetic energy." However, I cannot call to mind any affective ways to store energy as electricity, whereas any capable student of physics could readily suggest a few more ways to store energy: chemical, gravitational, nuclear.
The reviewer makes which one of the following criticisms of a claim that appears in the book under review?
(A) There is no reason to consider any particular way to store energy any more basic than any other.
(B) The list given of ways to store energy is possibly inaccurate and certainly not exhaustive.
(C) It is overly limiting to treat basic ways to store energy as a question unrelated to the question of effective ways to use energy.
(D) What needs to be considered is not whether various ways to store energy are basic but whether they are effective.
(E) Except possibly for electricity, all ways to store energy are equally effective and therefore equally basic.
From a book review
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(A) There is no reason to consider any particular way to store energy any more basic than any other.--> it is not about comparing. it is rather about suggesting a few more and raising doubts about some.
(B) The list given of ways to store energy is possibly inaccurate and certainly not exhaustive. --> True.
(C) It is overly limiting to treat basic ways to store energy as a question unrelated to the question of effective ways to use energy. --> No question of use here. It is only about storage. No.
(D) What needs to be considered is not whether various ways to store energy are basic but whether they are effective. --> Nope it isn't about basic v/s effective.
(E) Except possibly for electricity, all ways to store energy are equally effective and therefore equally basic. --> Firstly "all other ways" - Now that's a huge category! Secondly, it is not about mapping effective and basic.
IMO (B).
(B) The list given of ways to store energy is possibly inaccurate and certainly not exhaustive. --> True.
(C) It is overly limiting to treat basic ways to store energy as a question unrelated to the question of effective ways to use energy. --> No question of use here. It is only about storage. No.
(D) What needs to be considered is not whether various ways to store energy are basic but whether they are effective. --> Nope it isn't about basic v/s effective.
(E) Except possibly for electricity, all ways to store energy are equally effective and therefore equally basic. --> Firstly "all other ways" - Now that's a huge category! Secondly, it is not about mapping effective and basic.
IMO (B).