How to build a "Green" electric car.

[L Gilbert]

Smelting is green? Oh yeah only in Trail.

**** you are dense. Re-smelting is different from scrounging parts out of a salvage yard. DUH

It's nice to see somebody with some sense.

But you'd never recognize it.

 

[TenPenny]

Wow... a lot of people missing the point. New "Green" vehicles are not made from recycled material. The fact is, they have a far larger carbon foot print in the manufacturing process than conventional vehicles. At this point in time, they are far from "green" and calling them such is a misnomer.

And often use more exotic materials than steel.

But, that's the fun part of being 'green', we can ignore the ugly underlying truth.

 

[petros]

**** you are dense. Re-smelting is different from scrounging parts out of a salvage yard. DUH

But you'd never recognize it.

Re-smelting is different? Have you been down by the Teck holding ponds sucking in the mercury vapour? Did they sell you poisonous slag to put on your driveway and you're inhaling the dust?

 

[L Gilbert]

Re-smelting is different?

From scrounging around in salvage yards? Whatta you think?

Have you been down by the Teck holding ponds sucking in the mercury vapour? Did they sell you poisonous slag to put on your driveway and you're inhaling the dust?

Nope and nope. I'm not the one confusing re-smelting stuff with getting parts from salvage yards.

 

[petros]

Would you eat a carrot grown in a scrap yard?

 

[L Gilbert]

Would you eat a carrot grown in a scrap yard?

? What kind of drugs are you on? Who said anything about eating carrots to build a green car?
And scrapyards are usually used for collecting scrap, not growing carrots anyway. DUH

 

[petros]

Yes or no?

 

[MHz]

Would you eat a carrot grown in a scrap yard?

All the ones I know are enviro aware with all the various fluids that come out.

 

[petros]

Fluids? Liquid copper and the likes?

 

[MHz]

No like the fluids you find in all things that have moving parts. You find my old bar?
Did the ads mention this little 'bug'.

One seriously injured in GM battery lab blast | Reuters

Most of them will no have to put in radiation detection so they don't end up with contaminated Japanese cars.

 

[petros]

Only containers with liquid inside get scrapped? What did they do with my old screen door that didn't contain liquids?

PS how do you plan on building ONE car from scrap? Is there enough scrap around to build 100,000,000 cars which is what a real auto company would do?

 

[L Gilbert]

Yes or no?

What kind of drugs are you on? Glue sniffing? Smoking crack?

 

[petros]

Yes or no Les? Would you eat an arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury and PCB laden carrot grown in a junk yard?

 

[MHz]

Yes or no Les? Would you eat an arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury and PCB laden carrot grown in a junk yard?

What vehicles on the road now or in the past have used those materials?

 

[petros]

All of them and scrap yards buy metal from all sources not just autos.

 

[TenPenny]

What vehicles on the road now or in the past have used those materials?

Most of them. You don't have a battery in your car?

 

[MHz]

How does that put into the ground where carrots are going to be grown?

 

[petros]

Oxidization, friction, electroylitic reaction, chemical erosion, and various other methods.

 

[Cliffy]

It looks like some people are talking about two or three different things. Would you buy a $30,000 new electric car or would you buy a $5,500 conversion kit for a Mazda B2200 truck? Others with the technical know how, might want to build their own conversion kit from recycled parts and save a pile of money. Other still would prefer to drive gas guzzlers and make a return on their investment in dinosaur technology. In the end, none of it is Green but some of it is less destructive.

 

[petros]

Instead of buying a 30K electric I'd buy a 15K gasoline and buy gasoline with the 15K I saved.