On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 11:55 -0600, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said David B on Fri, 19 May 2006 11:45:16 MDT: > > > Its a more accurate solution to dealing with how carbon affects our > > atmosphere, but I think its humor very few people get, so I wont try > > to explain why its funny. > > Is this funny for the same reason that touting ``energy conservation'' > efforts is funny?
I just get a kick out of folks who claim that electric cars or hydrogen vehicles will help the environment. I am from Alberta where a university did a study and found that if the entire province was somehow magically switched to only electric vehicles, air pollution and carbon emissions would go up by an order of magnitude, given present technology. I think there are two problems we have to deal with. One is toxic chemical emission (everything from poisonous chemicals in the air to particulate matter), the other is net carbon increase. The first can and already is being dealt with. The second is much more worrisome. And that is where electric and hydrogen won't help much. As for recycling being a bad thing, that's junk science. Although we have really be careful with energy and pollution economics here. Michael > > Andy > -- > [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] > 11:53am up 47 days, 3:16, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
