Saving the Environment One Step at a Time

[Ivan Seeking]

I was only talking about the price of the thing versus the energy cost in *production* (not in use, and not over a lifetime). If one basically says that the price of the thing is a measure for the energy cost during the production, then *the production of a Ferrari* should be tens of times more energy consuming than a Skoda, which I'm sure is not the case. There's probably even less metal in the Ferrrari than in the Skoda.

How many days of production were required? What is the energy cost per day to run the factory? What percent of the factory was dedictated to the production of the car? How many people drove to work how many times to produce the car? What sort of exotic or energy intensive materials were used? These still seem to be valid questions.

Just a high priced paint job can tie up space in a paint shop for weeks and even months.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

did anyone catch last months special issue of National Geographic? It was all about going green, great read!

 

[binzing]

Even though I have a lifetime subscription to Nat Geo, I'm starting to dislike them. Particularly how many ads they have, both the 3X5 card types and the ones that are full pages (or even multiple pages) and these "Special Issues" are annoying. Like the one on China, it was all about the poverty, human rights abuses, and pollution, LOVELY!

(And no, I haven't caught that issue yet, is it the July issue?)