Showing posts with label going green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label going green. Show all posts

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Going Green

Ok, this has NOTHING to do with photography. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about going green. Specifically, going green with automobiles.

Now I know that many people think that hybrid cars are wonderful for the environment. But are they really?

Most hybrids use Nickel batteries. Nickel mining is a really filthy process which generates a lot of greenhouse gases. Plus, the nickel is mined one place, trucked, shipped and trucked to a processing plant. Then trucked, shipped and trucked to car factories. So, by the time that Toyota Prius is built, it has already made the evironmental impact of a mid-sized SUV.

Save the planet, buy a clean diesel!