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

[Paul Root]

I thought that was Volvo?

On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Barney Gaylord wrote:

> 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.