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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i am pretty sure the total number of laptop and cellphone LI-ION batteries worldwide exceed the numbers from Tesla by far (which btw are laptop batteries switched together)
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Exactly right.
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
but actually i despise electric cars, but for totally different reasons
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Why?
Personally I was never a big fan of electric but I am really getting there. IMO I think Telsa makes the best electric car. I tried the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf and neither compare to Telsa.
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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Anti-green Tesla in front of bird-killer wind turbines:
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About 10k to 40k of Birds die from hitting Windmills every here, but this is nothing compared to other sources.
Lighted Communication Towers : 40 to 50 MILLION bird deaths each year.
Cars : 60 to 80 Million Bird deaths each year
Windows : 100 Million to 1 Billion per year
Power Lines : 130 Million to 174 Million
Domestic cats : Hundreds of Millions.
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
If Obama wanted to really do something about air quality and gas mileage, he would pass a law to make the stop lights work so we spent less time stopped at them
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That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. There are too many cars in busy cities. Stop lights are used to KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING, not slow it down. Since the world love their cars, replacing them with greener cars is the best way to reduce pollution.
But hey, you know what you would be a good start? Drive-thru windows at MacDonalds. Talk about a waste of energy for all the wrong reasons.
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
At presence, they are only considering recycling them as they're not enough of them yet to recycle. But that's in the works.
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Wrong again. Don't you read anything but right-wing bullshit?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news...-gets-a-boost/
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesl...ycling-program
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/tesla...in-europe.html (since 2011)
https://www.apple.com/ca/batteries/
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Agreed, it's easier for them to make money off us with those technologies, I want to see more research in hydrogen powered cars.
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I don't think Hyrdogen is a good idea. As you like to say about batteries, there is a huge cost to the environment to make and refine Hydrogen. And, Hydogen requires very large spherical tanks in your car. And hydrogen doesn't just burn like gas when in an accident. It explodes with incredible force. And besides, Hydrogen requires a whole new delivery infrastructure so cars can "gas up". Why bother, when you can get "gas up" at home with an electric car?
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
On a submarine, we separated O2 from the Hydrogen in the sea water. We stored the O2 to breathe and pumped the Hydrogen over board. The same tech could be used to power a car, the tech is several decades old.
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This is called Electrolysis, and sure I thought about this too. In fact I did this when I was a little kid. With a couple of test tubes or jars, a plastic bucket, wires and DC current, I could separate the Oxygen and Hydrogen from water, then light the gas on fire for a fun POP of a mini explosion. Sound like the answer, right? Zap water and turn it into fuel. The problem is that it is not efficient enough. It takes alot of energy to separate the H and O from water, and alot of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis