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Originally Posted by founder;1792
Could You look for every post car You see and find out, is it electric or not?
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Ok !!!
Concerning Peugeot, it's true that they act a lot in favor of environment.
They invented the "Stop and go" system : when you stop your car (e.g. at a trafic light) the engine goes off. This system allows you to save 3 to 5% of gasoline (and so reduces CO2 emissions).
They also set up a pilot carbon sequestration experiment in Amazonia : tha aim is to reforest and create a carbon sink (I visited an exhibition at the science museum of Paris - "La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie" - and I was enjoyed !)
They also created a filter of particles (I'm sorry, I don't know the English word ... so my translation may be approximate), which prevents dangerous particles to be rejected in the atmosphere.
But they kind of disappointed me, because they yielded to SUV temptation ... I'd have loved it, if they had tried to keep a "green" image, and refused to construct SUV ...
I guess I'm a little naive ...
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"sequestration" After you put in the link it changed it to the sentence form thus has the word you were looking for
Doing fine I am understanding you completely.
Your second to last point about SUV Actually what you just witnessed was "green washing" They do tree project only to keep business as usual or to redirect the public away from the fact they continue to create things highly damaging to the environment.
Even toyota, "Green washes" with the Prius. They tout about how efficient the Prius is and how popular it is among the Green cars. This is to redirect people away from the fact that Toyota continues to make the big 4x4 which is the most popular in the Toyota line up! (4x4 sales > Prius sales by how much, I am not sure.)
Ouch I saw a flaw with the experiment right off the back when I saw the first photo on the link you provided.
ITS TOOO CONTROLED!! Trees are protected in the test chamber from all the environmental factors that is going on in the world such as rain, bugs, molds, bacterias, erosion, Ground nutrient levels, Ground nutrient makeup, Human impact on trees
(cutting trees for the lumber it provides),Soil dry-out from doubt, Too much rain, mono crop, Controlled UV, floods, animals eating the trees
(We had a oak project that kept having the "leader stem" of the tree top eaten off by hungry deer thus they were only 3 ft tall at 20-30 years of age rather that 10-25 ft) Where pollution?, chemicals, effect the "shield project" would have on the plants. Reality is 8 out 0f 10 trees die when planted as yearlings.
(I use to plant trees with the DNR Department of Natural Resources among other things. trees planted older is too resource intensive due to the dirt balls around the roots, that is why yearlings is used.)
The reality is that carbon offset using nature as the means of doing it is not practical to many variables goes into it that can't be tested in a lab. The Co2 that is collected by trees is mostly released back in to the atmosphere when it dies either as co2 or methane depending if it dies in a flooded area and is under water or on open ground where it has air to help decompose it. It would take a very long time to lock the Co2 away again that we released by burning Fossil fuels and such. So Due to this reality of the situation we need to cut our use of burning fossil based fuels and cut our excessive consumption ,, as well as reduce our population ASAP.