Electric Cars and the Environment?

[Timmy]

How about wind-up cars? Or even better, like the kind of toy you pull back a few inches and they go for several feet! Scale it up, and you push your car back a few feet and it goes for several miles!

Or there's always....

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Azzan

Prax, you don't need land to build wind farms. A lot of wind farms are out in the ocean.

yep and they are pretty ineffecient. Britan is going bust because of thier ocean based wind farms.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

And half of that is toxic battery acid?

Not half but a lot, close to 400 lbs of battery.

[Praxeas]

hydrogen fuel cells

[Azzan]

Not me. I don't want to be within 5 miiles of a crash involving a pressurized vessel containing hydrogen under hundreds of pounds.

Besides, it takes more energy to make hydrogen than what you can get out of it. Dead end in my opinion.