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Bulli:
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--- Quote from: "Boggert" ---I’m going to build a house that is totally carbon neutral from Power supply to heating system and water supply.
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I suspect that doesn't exist, there will undoubtedly be some part of the process, or element of the construction that will be far from TOTALLY CN. Even if we found it then the minute you moved in - game over :)
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Yep, ok Guys you know what I'm trying to say... If it helps as CN as you can get..
We are building a log cabin, we have own water suppy, electricity us by wind and solar when we can. heating by a Corn powered boiler, and yes we grow the corn. :lol:
So I guess its as good as you can get at the moment. :roll: :roll:
Anyone has any better ideas, post then here... :roll:
So back to the Puris... buy a VW Polo Blue Motion does 74 MPG. :lol:
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nice one Boggert. Sounds like a great way to go, with as little impact as possible.
The best thing we could do is to move to more efficient servers, Pc's, lights and televisions. Thats would make a hell of a difference to the environment. The blue motion will do much less harm to the environment as well as returning better fiel economy....so thats a win win. oh and its 12k rather than 17........
Gav_T:
I read that the batteries for them daft cars were partly made in Canada, shipped over to wales, worked on a bit there, sent back to Canada for more work, then back to wales, then on to japan. (it was something like that and i cant be arsed to look again!)
Thing is they worked out that the car would have to be doing mega miles a year or kept for teens of years to balance out the damage done by all the shipping.
Cars should have (infact everything!) a overall co2 rating ie how much was made to build the car aswell as how much it puts out per km.
Gav.
P.S i drive a 3.9 v8 and it rocks :twisted: :twisted:
Kaneda:
buy the box set of The Good Life , they were doing the green thing years ago , and it was deemed entertainment :roll:
Just a reminder http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/goodlife/
crazymac:
A reminder of the link that "Sooty" posted
http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_item.asp?NewsID=188
read it, then tell me that battery power is the way to go!! Read it, then tell me that the Prius in environmentally friendly!!!!
here's a quote "the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles."
I've seen this place, its dead!!! no trees, grass, animals!! NOTHING!
I'm afraid the the Toyota PIUS is a heap and anyone that buys them do so because they get sucked into the "it runs on batteries so its carbon neutral" rubbish
Take the life cycle of this car, and compare it to most other cars on the market and its SHOCKING!!!! it should never have been built!
As someone has said already, the carbon miles the batteries do before finding their way into the vehicles is horrendous, then there is the manufactureing of the cars, then the actual lifespan of the vehicle, THEN THERE IS THE RECYCLEING OF THE BATTERIES THAT HAVE KILLED A PART OF THE PLANET ALREADY, THAT NEED TO BE SENT BACK TO THIS FACTORY TO BE RECYCLED.
How can that possibly be better than something like a discovery, that will live for a lot more then 16 years, and when it does die, it gets recycled by enthusiasts to keep others on the road!!
Sorry about the rant, but this "green" balls really gets to me. I'm all for reducing the carbon I produce, but I refuse to step back to the dark ages to do it!! and I really do not see WHY we must be taxed more, for what is in the main a natural phenomenon!!
Disco Matt:
What gets me is the fact that the powers that be seem to be pushing "Recycle" over "Reuse" despite the fact that recycling uses more energy and resources. One example: Soft drink bottles. In Germany these are heavier-duty than ours as they're returned, sterilised, and refilled rather than recycled.
Then again, I guess pushing the concept of Reuse would do horrible damage to the economy, as people would stop buying new stuff...
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