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InkL0sed wrote:Who gives a f*ck how it looks? That's just amazing.
bedub1 wrote:Where does the electricity come from to compress the air?
Matroshka wrote:Why are these alternative fuel vehicles always either super tiny and odd looking or really expensive super cars?
bedub1 wrote:Where does the electricity come from to compress the air?
hecter wrote:Also, I could be driving a god damned giant potato for all I car, the damn thing gets 106 miles per gallon!
Juan_Bottom wrote:bedub1 wrote:Where does the electricity come from to compress the air?
You plug it into a wall outlet.
Nickbaldwin wrote:Juan_Bottom wrote:bedub1 wrote:Where does the electricity come from to compress the air?
You plug it into a wall outlet.
Think about where that comes from.... It's not really any better is it.
And a car fueled by even coal-derived electricity (the source of nearly half of America's power) will generate only 0.7 pound of CO2 per mile for every pound of CO2 emitted by a conventional gasoline-powered car.
Nickbaldwin wrote:I see.
But while it is a step forward it still isn't a solution. Surely if everyone used it there would need to be more electricity being generated to meet the demand, and therefore more CO2 per km?
That's the way I'm seeing things. It's an alternative to using petrol but we will see the effects in other fossil fuels. Petrol or not, it's still going to use fossil fuels and that's what we're trying to avoid in the long run surely?
hecter wrote:Well, it 'causes global warming...
hecter wrote:While you think that's a lie, any scientist worth his salt when talking about global warming doesn't.
hecter wrote:It's pretty well excepted in the scientific community that global warming 'caused by man (ie man releasing CO2 into the atmosphere) is a fact. Just like evolution.
hecter wrote:Sure, there are some naysayers, but there were naysayers to the fact that the earth was round and that the earth rotated around the sun.
hecter wrote:Those two articles right there seem to indicate that global temperature is rising at an alarming rate.
hecter wrote: Looking at some of the graphs they've got, and others I've seen, it seems that CO2 levels and temperature change pretty well hand in hand.
hecter wrote:1. Global warming is true, we do nothing. We're fucked
hecter wrote:2. Global warming is false, we do nothing. Everybody is happy!... Except fossil fuel prices continue to rise and rise until we just plain run out.
hecter wrote:3. Global warming is true, we get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels. We create thousands of new jobs in the alternative energy sector, giving everybody clean and cheap sources of energy that will be around for ever. Global catastrophe (hopefully) averted.
hecter wrote:4. Global warming is false, we get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels. We create thousands of new jobs in the alternative energy sector, giving everybody cheap sources of energy that will be around for ever.
hecter wrote:Look at that PDF, (HTML version found below) at Table 3, you can see, quite clearly, that renewable energy provides many many more jobs than fossil fuels in both installation and processing.
hecter wrote:Did you guys not learn the carbon cycle in school?
hecter wrote:The levels of CO2 in the atmosphere fluctuate for a number of reasons, but the fact that we're taking thousands of tons of carbon that was taken out of the cycle and putting it back in is having an effect. There's no way it couldn't.
hecter wrote: A carbon tax wouldn't even affect the average Joe that drives to work everyday. It will only affect big polluters, providing incentive to them to stop polluting and move to cleaner energies.
HapSmo19 wrote:I am involved
hecter wrote:"I know it creates more jobs, I just think it should create more". Please, explain.
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