Can this be the Solution to Global Warming and Climate Change? An electric car with a long extension cord?

Question

Would you do this to save the planet?

Dr. Jim Hansen (chief US climatologist) was quoted in UK magazine The Economist (like "Time" magazine in the US) as saying, 'We've got a 10-year window to save this planet".

Would you, or not, do this? (The current issue of Scientific American on the newstands right now, with a special article on the global warming, paints a very grim picture of Climate Change.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqqW6K-sb9E

Answer 1

For Hansen, global warming is very profitable. He got $250,000.00 from John Kerry's foundation just before Kerry made his Presidential bid, (Hansen endorsed Kerry) was a paid consultant to Algore's movie, and to the documentary "It Could Happen Tomorrow".

He's admitted to the magazine Natural Science in 2003 that he used “extreme scenarios" to dramatize global warming, and that these actions “may have been appropriate at one time” to drive the public's attention to the issue

He is a bought and paid for scientist and he should step down from his position at GISS.

Answer 2

Electric cars have been around for some time but the problem lies in the batteries - not able to retain enough charge to allow the vehicle to travel any great distance.

For lightweight running around town, trips to the shops, school runs etc then it's vaible but not really for a long journey. I wonder also how the pick up in the YouTube clip would have performed with a heavy load in the back.

The technology is advancing and perhaps in the future electric cars will be more realistic. Just recently for example a paper battery was produced (carbon nanotubes in electrolyte cause chemical reaction producing current). It's just like normal paper in that it can be torn, folded, written on etc.

Currently a battery the size of a postage stamp can light a small bulb, as the technology advances it may well be possible to power a car with a battery the size of a newspaper. If this happens the battery powered car could become a very realistic proposition.

The technology has been developed by Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

As for wether I'd drive an electric vehicle, for me it wouldn't be practical. I live out in the country on top of a hill, a lot of my travelling is long distance and often in remote areas (I'd need to run a petrol generator to charge the battery so it kind of defeats the purpose). If I lived in a city and travelled locally then maybe.

Answer 3

There were a few decades of cooling up until the 1970s. Now we are in a warming period. They complain about ice ages when it is cooling and global warming when it is warming. If they aren't sure, they call it climate change. Whatever it is, it is obviously damaging because capitalists caused it.. The freon was about the ozone layer and not global cooling. Some guy had a theory about the catalytic effect of free chlorine atoms or something like that. .That is what I remember reading about is so many decades ago anyway. I think the aerosol involved in cooling the atmosphere are only dust and other solid particles suspended in the air. The aerosols in spray cans probably all turn to gas after a short time and I seriously doubt they have a measurable effect even though I have heard it claimed otherwise. One guy said ozone depletion causes the mid troposphere to cool so that is why we don't see the actual greenhouse effects. .I only mention it becuase it is probably some talking point.

Answer 4

Yes I would be willing to drive an electric car. No they are not a 100% solution to Global Warming because cars are just part of the problem, coal burning electric plants are another. So if you have an electric car but the energy sorce is from a coal plant, then the car is still adding to Global Warming.
I personaly like the water cars the best, but I think they still have a way to go.

Answer 5

Hmmmm. I subscribe to Scientific American, and I thought that issue was a month or two ago. No matter. I guess the point you're trying to make is that the extension cord has the same relationship with Global Warming as you and your umbilicus?

Answer 6

I don't like driving cars with wet cell batteries. If they want an environmental mess wait until one of these cars get into a wreck. It also cost $4000 to replace the batteries after a few years. I will keep
my Expedition thank you too much!

Answer 7

I think battery operated cars are a good idea, IF we can recycle or manufacture the battery. People have developed some good battery operated cars the only problem is if it's to good the oil company's give you a few bucks for your idea and file it as forgotten. The oil company's are the biggest problem with global warming , but they do see green... Oh that's the money.

Answer 8

I would not mind driving an electric car, but I think the extension cord would be rather foolish, it would cost quite a bit to create an extension cord long enough for even your every day travels.

Answer 9

You are being silly.

There are electric cars that run on batteries that would satisfy most people's requirements. Those batteries could be charged by windmills or nuclear power plants, and no CO2 would be emitted.

That would help, but the main sources of CO2 are fossil-fuel power plants, not cars.

Answer 10

electric cars are good u would have to charge it every night and and have at least two batteries just in case i also think instead of using paper to use a plastic thin sheet also transparent and only a certain liquid can erase with a special marker so it doesnt come of easily