Showing posts with label green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Why does an electric car generate less carbon dioxide than a petrol powered one?

It is often claimed that an electric vehicle (EV) generates as much carbon dioxode (CO2) & other pollutants as an internal combustion engine (ICE), because coal is burned to generate the electricity.

Is this true?

Short answer: No.

Saturday, 7 May 2011

Powering the Dream — the history of 'green'

"In 1900 people could use the sun to heat the water for their shower.  They could drive across New York City in and electric taxicab.  Even if these cabs did not work perfectly, they did exist all before most people even had a single light bulb in their home.  In 1945 people could have purchased a solar house or gone to see the one-megawatt wind-turbine [and] in the 1980s people would have seen massive solar fields in the Mojave Desert"

"We in the West have been 'green' for a long long time, but very little of these innovations have made their way into our daily lives. In fact we are constantly re-inventing the same wheel." — By Design, ABC Radio National


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