Environment - May 2007

Calls for a boycott have been circulating for weeks now - to protest the high prices North American consumers are having to pay.

Personally, I think there are much more compelling reasons to boycott the petro-industry.. from environmental degredation, to contribution to greenhouse gas, to fuleing conflict and opression in regions like Iraq, Nigeria, Sudan, Indonesia, etc.

In fact, I think we subsidize North Americans love affair with cars far too much already (fuel taxes do not come close to paying for the taxpayer expense involved in developing the hundreds of thousands of miles of highway and infastructure dedicated to the millions of single occupant SUV driving motorists that clog our roadways evey day.

I am, however in favour of subsidizing commercial trucking, mass transit and carpooling with selectively reduced fuel costs or rebates.

Does anyone else agree that this boycott is entirely self-centred??

2007-05-10 07:50:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Tesla Motors in San Carlos, Ca is taking orders for the Tesla Roadster, an all electric looker that whips from zero to 60 mph in about 4 seconds., zipping around for 250 miles on a single charge, thanks to it amazingly powerful battery system. All this in a curvy body and with sumptuous interior....not frugal.

You can order one of these beauties for just 92,000.

teslamotors.com

I am seriously thinking about one of these when I trade in my vett 2009.

2007-05-10 07:45:34 · 6 answers · asked by kickinupfunf 6 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

i am doing a porjcet paper on Global warming. tell me any thing you about it!
thack you!

2007-05-10 06:33:35 · 6 answers · asked by eyoel f 1 in Global Warming

Read this http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/5341/1251

2007-05-10 06:15:18 · 11 answers · asked by Mark S 6 in Global Warming

The person must be living in the Bay Area, California. Must own or have access to a car that runs on ethanol. They must also be willing to talk at a booth at a Green Fair.

Please contact me for more information: airanimae.daemonsfaeries@yahoo.com

2007-05-10 05:50:33 · 18 answers · asked by Aira 1 in Green Living

The ecology forum has been removed from yahoo answers which is a major bummer. For those of you in the know, ecology is a science all it's own and to remove it is a great disservice. Please help me by commenting on this post and by submitting a suggestion to yahoo answers, asking them to please reinstate the ecology topic.

2007-05-10 05:48:13 · 3 answers · asked by pazdon 1 in Other - Environment

2007-05-10 05:20:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-05-10 04:43:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Sorry about all the Global Warming questions, it's for a project tomorrow.

2007-05-10 02:52:45 · 16 answers · asked by rkuhl24 1 in Global Warming

Regarding rich and poor countries.

2007-05-10 02:32:03 · 9 answers · asked by rkuhl24 1 in Global Warming

I just moved to the far north Illinois suburbs and have an insect phobia. And where I live...there are TONS of trees and shrubs, what can I expect?

Thank you...

2007-05-10 02:21:02 · 11 answers · asked by morebidd 3 in Other - Environment

have some scientist disagree with global warming, or other individuals

2007-05-10 00:55:33 · 14 answers · asked by Alexis K 1 in Global Warming

and which is your favourite that you wish will last for a long time?
It's either sunny or rain over here...and I love that weather.

2007-05-10 00:46:27 · 4 answers · asked by curiouscarp88 3 in Other - Environment

If your understanding (or lack of it) of the global warming science leads you to conclude:
a) we are doomed, or
b) we are doomed unless we act quickly
c) we might be doomed, but we have plenty of time to save ourselves
d) we are not doomed, it's all a storm in a teacup
e) we are not doomed and those who say we are will doom us if they get their way.

Which conclusion do you think sums up your attitude?
If you are proved wrong, would you be happy or sad about it?

I'll add my hypothesis about the results when I select a best answer.

2007-05-10 00:44:27 · 8 answers · asked by co2_emissions 3 in Global Warming

I recently bought a new Toyota Aygo. It costs me £35 per year road tax, I get @ 60+ miles per gallon, plus the cheapest insurance group. Inside it is luxurious, roomy and can easily seat four adults, the choice of driving it manually or fully-auto - £7,800 new.

Drive along any road in the western world and there are certainly enough people who have great gas-guzzling monsters, in fact my neighbour just got a Chrysler Crossfire and he is single.

Now whilst I fully accept that not everyone is able to purchase a new vehicle and some people tow caravans or boats and need a larger engine, watch all the mothers in their 4X4 Range Rovers dropping their kids off, or the company executive in his series 7 BMW! These are ego driven fools who have no consideration for the planet or other people.

This is pure ego, a badge that says 'Look at me, sod the planet!' They could easily downgrade to a more practical and sensible driving option, but they are so desperate to maintain an image.

2007-05-10 00:35:10 · 17 answers · asked by telecasterisation 3 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-05-09 23:56:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

I think it hilarious that government agencies are just getting on the top of economical disaster while scientist have been talking about this for decades. Maybe if they weren't allowing the oil companies to line politicians pockets we would have had more efficient and better energy sources and vehicles done years ago. Before we started to notice a huge change in global warming.

2007-05-09 19:54:44 · 6 answers · asked by Livinrawguy 7 in Global Warming

for 2 months i have been asking if we in Environment & Ecology could have our own catagory ,and not be hidden under Mathmatics

,I even wrote to Al Gore ,and to Jane ,and made several sugestions in the forum

2 hours Ago it happened ,
three cheers for Yahoo

does any one else think this is great
(now its a question)

2007-05-09 18:34:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

There are many inland areas in the world which are below sea level. Death Valley and the Salton Sea Basin in California are examples. Couldn't a siphoning system be designed which would allow these depressions to fill with sea water if melting polar ice leads to rising sea levels? I don't know if there would be enough available volume in these areas to make a real difference, but this is pretty simple technology and i would think that having new inland seas would be preferable to losing Manhattan, wouldn't it? Another example, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia is hundreds of miles long. If the entire East African Rift Valley can be connected to the Red Sea, it could create a sea almost as large as the Red Sea itself...that would have to help, wouldn't it?

2007-05-09 18:22:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Do you know how much transportation contributes to global warming and do you know anything about transportation effected global warming. Also how much does polluting factories, forest fires, and greenhouse gases contribute and anything about them....
THX

2007-05-09 18:06:15 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I am trying to build a device which would mount on the rear carrier of my 20 inch folding bike, which would generate and store electricity, for anything, within reason that can be plugged in (i.e lamp, computer, stereo etc).
I bike about 10-15 miles a day and I would like to generate some power and $ave on my elecricity bill (I already have solar panels) and create some green power.
So I want to create, in essence, a kinetically generated charger to mount on my bike, which, when I get home, I can plug appliances into.
If such a product already exists where can I get it. If I need to make it from scratch what is my first step?

2007-05-09 17:19:19 · 13 answers · asked by Rob 4 in Other - Environment

2007-05-09 16:17:51 · 8 answers · asked by W 4 in Other - Environment

umm... since electric motors are going to come out onto cars soon, very soon do u think it would be posible to put a electric motor on a car that ran on oil??

2007-05-09 15:43:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Cars made 10+ years ago get the same gas mileage (or better) than cars made today (excluding hybrids). Why has engine technology not evolved?

2007-05-09 15:00:39 · 9 answers · asked by fail r us 3 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

ok so im making a solar/water car like a dam but to power the pump i used a solar panal 1by3 ft
how it supposed to work
1.pump pushes water through a turbine
2.generator turns making electricity
3.electricity powers motor
4. motor turns axel car should go
would it work?
p.s for pipe im using pvc
p.ss lol im 12

psss lol its a small model sry 4got to add that its 1by3ft
sry people who answered b4

2007-05-09 14:45:18 · 5 answers · asked by Trooper 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Just wondering if there's a clearinghouse for this stuff, especially for the corps of engineers.

2007-05-09 12:17:02 · 2 answers · asked by SomethinFishy 2

Of course looking for those ways that will lower the most carbon the fastest first but also looking for low hanging fruit that can help the environment a companies bottom line and the economy as well as those ways that don't make money but cost much less then doing nothing from the harm they are doing now and will do in the future.

2007-05-09 12:11:09 · 1 answers · asked by Stan S 1

So I know that probably not very many scientists use Yahoo! Answers, but if any of you do, can you tell me what you think about global warming? I have heard so many different arguments from both sides, and I am now very confused. I tend to lean toward the opinion that it is real, because of some comments on the opposition that I fundamentally disagree with, like that DDT should be allowed... So, educated people who know what you're talking about, what do you think?

2007-05-09 12:08:48 · 32 answers · asked by MinaMay 4

Which types of cars use biodiesel? i really need 2 know for my speech about it!

2007-05-09 12:04:31 · 4 answers · asked by super_star77714 1

It is legal to explode because the liquid nitrogen dissolves into the air and does no damage to the enviornment, but how can i get / make it?

2007-05-09 11:49:31 · 4 answers · asked by Coke plz 1