science.discovery.com — Motor Development International has developed a car that runs on air. It uses Compressed Air Technology to run the car. The tanks are made of carbon fiber. Great for city driving since it only has a range of 150km. Cold air is the only emission which can then run the A/C.
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enendarMar 29, 2006
A car that ran on carbon dioxide would be even better. photosynthesis on wheels, think about it. A car that eats up carbon dioxide and spits out oxygen.
groo68Mar 29, 2006
Dupish, I posted an article about this a couple days ago. its been around for years and hand't been on digg until then. w/e cool video anyway. im glad its getting more awareness and such.
aapl2dcoreMar 29, 2006
applepenguin:Decomposition of soil organic matter contributes an order of magnitude more CO2 to the atmosphere each year than all fossil fuel combustion combined.<a class="user" href="http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt200408.html">http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt200408.html</a>A good portion of that decomposition is caused by tillage. Farmers also tend to use a lot of lime to decrease the pH of their fields. CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2. Switching to no till farming would generally have no impact on yield and would significantly reduce CO2. If all farmland in America were no-till farms, it would be the equivalent of taking roughly half of all the cars off of America's roads. Imagine if the whole world switched to no-till farming. Tillage not only contributes significantly to atmospheric CO2 levels, it also cause soil erosion that clogs rivers and streams. The run off of pesticides and fertilizers that get carried with the dirt into rivers and streams results in algal blooms and waterborne disease like pfiesteria which cause massive fish kills and are a menace to human health. Oh yeah, and 40% of Earth's land is being destroyed by tillage, insuring that there won't be enough food for everyone in a few decades.<a class="user" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1659467,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1659467,00.html</a>So if tillage is so bad, why do farmers continue to do it? Because they'd need all new equipment to switch to no till farming. So there you have it, the almighty buck. Now... how much did the government spend on global warming research, computer models, cow fart studies, and the like last year? Is it possible that... rather than study what some scientist call a problem, we could spend the money of fixing it? I suppose that doesn't work for those scientists though... global warming *hype* is job security for them.But hey, if the global warming crowd is only worried about CO2, cause, you know, eating's not all that important to them or something, then just seed the oceans with iron sulfate to solve that CO2 'problem.':-)
argleMar 29, 2006
"let me say that I've traveled the globe, and there are fatties everywhere you go."Yeah, American tourists.
joxrox22Apr 1, 2006
Damn. There's no way in hell I could win a race with a modder.
onewilburJul 4, 2006
doesn't work on my Firefox