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

[Richard Ewald]

Actually Volvo does produces several cars that when in use leave the  
air cleaner than they found it.  My 05 V70 is such a model.
Yes it has a catylist coating on the radiator as well as some other  
trick features emission wise.

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On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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