"Green" Vehicles?

Question

Ok so lets say everyone in the US gets a Green car in the future what is going to happen then?
While each person is not dierectly burning fossil fuel, people will plug in their cars. Will this not lead to a larger draw on the power plants? A bigger draw on power plants causes them to use more fuel. Whether it is more uranium[HAZMAT], rubbish or coal. Which leads me to alternet fuel (ethenol) and more questions. It has a decreased MPG rating. And the increased demand on large farms to drive huge diesel burning tractors will contribute to the exact thing the alternet fuels are supposed to counter act. And you will not convince all the farmers to burn bio-diesel. And what about the increased HAZMAT waste created by all of the extra lithium batteries that will be produced and then destroyed?

I guess I'm lost as to the positive outcome of "Green" Vehicles.

Answer 1

All cars need some sort of energy to drive them and the only practical method of propulsion (for now at least) is the combustion engine. Whatever fuel is burned has drawbacks but some aren't as bad as others. 'Green' cars such as the hybrid Toyota Prius produce 104 grams of emissions per kilometer compared to an 'average' car which produces nearly twice this amount.

You're right that using ethanol and other alternative fuels has adverse effects in other ways.

Perhaps one solution would be to fit vehicles with a carbon dioxide sequester - this could be hydrogen sulphide based. The car would have two tanks - one for the gas and one for the sequestered CO2. When you go to a gas station you could fill up one tank at the same time as emptying the other. That way we could keep vehicles as they are and only need to make a modification, the oil companies and car manufacturers would be happy and polution would be dramatically reduced.

I know the science behind this method works but I'm not an engineer so don't know how feasible it would be to design such a system for vehicles.

Answer 2

Any vehicle will have some negative impacts on the environment. You are exactly correct that electric cars will pollute not just with the energy source (nuclear, coal generated, hydro-electric, etc). Ethanol vehicles are one of the biggest lies. I strongly suspect that it would be impossible to put enough land under the plow to grow enough material that can be used to produce ethanol that would meet the needs of all the cars in the U.S. much less the world. You are also correct that batteries are huge sources of pollution (lead acid included).

Perhaps the "most green vehicle" would be the bicycle. I doubt that industrialized nations would be willing to provide the energy to make bicycles viable. Too easy to sit on the couch and complain.

Answer 3

JEEP is a 4 letter be conscious. no matter if male or woman, a Jeep will make you higher impossible to face up to to the different gender... and some flora and fauna. That fold down back seat does more advantageous than enable me deliver domicile a lot from domicile Depot, LOL! Oh, wait, no. I neglect that my brother offered a Jeep Rubicon very last 365 days. yet he has a pocket protector and nerd glasses. He teaches laptop technology on a school aspect. for human beings like him, waving a $one hundred on Picacho street would artwork... plus there is continuously some bimboes in college that choose passing grades.

Answer 4

Electric vehicles will save us. but big oil (chevron) and car makers will not make it easy for us to get them. An electric car doesn't need oil changes or hardly any maintenance for that matter. That is why oil companies are pushing hydrogen, then they still have you stopping for refills. That's why car makers are not trying too hard either, they make tons of money on maintenance. With Electric cars, we don't need no stinkin gas or gas supplier from Iraq and other nations.

I dream that I will see the day when we all have solar panels on our homes that will keep us warm and cool, and charge our cars for nothing.

Answer 5

Green cars are propaganda. They polute as much as nongreen cars do. They do it in ways that are harder to see but they do it anyway. Even if cars didnot polute they still have the bigger problem of gridlock to overcome. There are way too many cars in the world and still no there is end in sight.

Answer 6

I hate green cars, I much prefer blue or red.