Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > >>course. But it can hardly be said that you have to "save a huge >>amount of fuel before you recoup the environmental cost of >>constructing it in the first place" is a valid statement if you're >>trying to contrast it to petrol and diesel powered automobiles. > > > The way I conceived this initially was that these cars fetch a premium > compared to petrol and even diesel cars, which you have to cough up at > purchase and recoup with use. But now I am confused by Mike's answer, > for the reasons you outlined, Godfrey. > > Kostas >
Dry-cell battery manufacturing is quite nasty from an environmental perspective. But I can't see it being worse than the reduction in emissions from a hybrid. Now an electric which charges off the grid could possibly be worse if located in a place that uses a lot of coal-fired generators (which are utterly nasty from an environmental perspective and should have been banned years ago). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
