[Mgs] OT : Tesla - in the flesh!!

[Barney Gaylord]

At 10:45 AM 2/27/2009 -0600, Paul Root wrote:
>.... there's a lot of sticking ones head in the sand of 
>environmentalists that think a Zero emission car has no 
>environmental effect from it's use.
>....

We all know that electric cars pollute by way of what comes out of 
the electrical power generating plant.  So how about a REAL practical 
negative pollution vehicle?  Some years ago when the government was 
mandating production of "zero pollution" vehicles, Honda built a 
negative pollution vehicle that runs on common gasoline, and you 
wouldn't know it from any other gasoline powered car.  They put 
catalyst plating on the outside of the cooling radiator.  The 
radiator then removed more pollutants from the ambient air than the 
car was emitting from the tail pipe, thus making it a negative 
pollution vehicle, actually cleaning the air as you drove.

You can guess where that went.  Bureaucrats with a vested interest in 
electric cars shot it down because the emissions standards only 
consider tail pipe emissions.  Ignoring negative emissions of the 
catalytic radiator, is just as stupid as ignoring positive emissions 
of coal fired electric power plants.