Your Questions About Green Living

The Expert answers:

Ethanol and biodiesel. They produce less CO2 per liter as gasoline and diesel. They produce less energy too. So the proper comparison is CO2 per 100 km. CO2 is about the same. The only thing that is eco is that ethanol and biodiesel are renewable. Biodiesel also includes fuel made from used restaurant fats so there is a recycle benefit.

Methanol, used by indy racers is wood alcohol. Methanol engines also produce CO2.

Hydrogen fuel cell and electric battery both require HUGE amounts of electricity. In case you haven’t noticed the ‘green’ places such as California already have HUGE shortages of electricity.

The electricity used to make the hydrogen or charge the battery might be clean as in hydro but is as likely to be dirty as in coal, oil, or nuclear.

Then there is the matter of toxic materials used in battery technology.

The cars we drive today are a lot cleaner and fuel efficient than they used to be.

The main problem with all the alternatives is cost.

Maybe we are looking in the wrong direction. There are a lot of things that can be done to reduce CO2 emissions without radically changing the cars we drive.

-build intersections with traffic circles or interchanges in order to reduce the time spent idling at traffic lights.
-build transit that actually works moving people with minimal difference in time if a car is used. My main beef with transit is that whenever I tried using it it took at least two busses and a half hour or more waiting in between.
-continue building and developing fuel efficient engines that burn fuel cleanly.

Probably the only practical solution to the present energy crisis is to develop synthetic carbon fuels. Essentially figure out how to shorten the hundreds of thousands of years to naturally produce coal and petroleum.

The Expert answers:

Tesla Roadster Electric Car – http://www.teslamotors.com/
Auto Journal for Electric & Hybrid Cars – When a car from a small specialty manufacturer looks this good, it seems a safe assumption that maximum effort has been…
Http://www.greencar.com/features/teslaroadster

The Expert answers:

How about good use of kids avoiding chores. You know more than half of chore time is relentless avoidance for lack of industrious, noticeable gratification in the lonliest way. We used to kick the can many years ago when children could play in the street all the way to dark. If you are background checkable, why don’t you start employing our little self starters to sub- contractorship, feed your face with pats on the back, and place an inviting welcome back placement on the neighborhood table for good old fashioned, fear- based, acknowledgement of our not so far off in the future generation promise With your confidence, experience, expertise, and enthusiasm, without regard to what their personal right to personal and family privacy rights are concerned. (If you need to protect yours, as an adult, of course, this does not apply). If you could keep it educational, helpful, and safe, I believe our young people’s minds have already been invented, most difficult to beat, and so desiring a way to feel useful, desired and contributing, in an eco-friendly way or not.

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Bicycle, bicycle.

Ford focus.. Year 2000-2004. They are not very expensive.

The Expert answers:

They use less gas than conventional cars but what i think is more eco-friendlier than a hybrid car is any car as long as it’s a used car because it is very energy and resource intensive to make a new car especially a hybrid car.