Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning Wulff wrote: > There are a whole lot of factors in energy efficiency/ecological > footprint concerns. > > Cars do take a lot of energy to produce, and the Prius > unfortunately needs more; batteries are a large part of the > problem. Also, regarding the ecological footprint, there is the > concern that batteries intrinsically need aggressive chemicals to > work and that is a manufacturing/re-manufacturing and accident and > disposal issue. > > The total life-cycle ecological footprint is generally lower for > turbo diesels of the latest types, and these are probably most > reasonable for European users. Now that finally low sulphur fuels > are also available in N. America we'll see more diesels here as > well, as they are even better suited to the N. American style of > driving. I agree with all of this. The latest clean-burning turbo diesels are quite impressive from many points of view. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange