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Jabe · 07.29.2009, 01:46 PM

You think making lipo batterys is ecological?

BrianG · 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jabe

You think making lipo batterys is ecological?

It's gotta be. Even if companies produce enough lipo packs to outfit every car on the planet, the pollutants generated from the process HAS to be less than the sum of the pollutants generated from all those cars on a daily basis.

And I'm not really sold on the whole global warming thing. On one hand, I can understand that our emissions can't be good for the environment, but is it causing as much damage as propaganda would have you believe? I suppose emissions from the dinosaur lifestyle caused their ice age right? I'm sure all those dinos driving around giant size SUVs caused it. I think the vast majority of what is said is pure speculation. Just like if you go to the doctor and find out you have cancer. They scratch their heads wondering why until they learn you are a smoker, and then they automatically say "that must be it". It's an easy answer to a big problem with little actual proof.

JThiessen · 07.29.2009, 03:12 PM

'nuther thing that kinda got my attention was going to Glacier Nation park last year, and just seeing the difference in the Glaciers from when I was there 9 years ago was amazing - you pretty much have to do overnight hikes to get to where you see any of the glaciers now.

Yeah, its hard to wade through the political arguments for/against it. I'm a skeptical data type person - and it's taken me a while to start thinking that I should look at trying to make some changes. Not certain that I'm taking it serious enough to even touch my truck in any way, but its got me thinking.

zeropointbug · 07.29.2009, 03:47 PM

There is nowhere near enough lithium on planet earth to make lipo batteries to equip even a fraction of the worlds fleet.

We need something else, some other type of battery, maybe if Europositron ever comes out with their aluminum battery (plenty of aluminum in the earth!), as it is supposedly cheap as dirt to produce, and has energy densities up around 1500Wh/kg! A typical lipo pack we use is around 140 - 150Wh/kg. IIRC, it would cost something like $3000 to have a range of 1000miles in a typical car.

zeropointbug · 07.29.2009, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by JThiessen

'nuther thing that kinda got my attention was going to Glacier Nation park last year, and just seeing the difference in the Glaciers from when I was there 9 years ago was amazing - you pretty much have to do overnight hikes to get to where you see any of the glaciers now.

Yeah, its hard to wade through the political arguments for/against it. I'm a skeptical data type person - and it's taken me a while to start thinking that I should look at trying to make some changes. Not certain that I'm taking it serious enough to even touch my truck in any way, but its got me thinking.

Have you guys seen Antarctica the last couple years, huge chunks are breaking off! Some other non-mainstream conforming scientists say that the ice will melt a an increasingly exponential rate than what is commonly accepted... even the accepted time range (forecast) was drastically changed this year, and they think it has to be changed again.

BTW, have you guys heard the rumor that Nasa was withholding evidence that their are pyramids under the ice in Anterctica?

Modding_out · 07.29.2009, 04:42 PM

You guys have been eating algores BS and watching to much tv. do the research. GLOBAL WORMING IS NATURAL, it's caused by sun spots which are basically really hot freckles on the suns surface. not carbon dioxide.

If you chart c02, earth temperature, and sun spots threw the last 2000 years, suns spots and the earths temp follow each other, co2 actually goes the opposite direction!

You guys are worried about global warming, wasn't there going to be an ice age 30 years ago? look it up, SUN SPOTS! imagine that.......

If you want to argue with me about it, do your research before you bitch.

Also, I do believe that all the emissions laws that they have will help us be good stewards of our planet, but it has NOTHING to do with global warming. Global warming is a farce, it's just some thing algore and a bunch of scientists pulled out of there ass to make money.