Green like the fungus on my FOOT!
Listening to: [ Will.iam featuring Fergie - True ]
I just saw a television ad that promoted electric lawn mowers and the selling point was that it (the lawnmower) is environmentally friendly.
"okay... whatever"
But it just occured to me. How can anything that uses a battery be green?
Electric cars, lawnmowers and Eva Mendes and the like are anything but green.
Especially Mendes who i would say is closer to red HOT.
Don't believe me?
Okay, bullshit aside let's think about where the electricity comes from. Yep, here in Aus i believe the figure is somewhere in the 7-80% of Australia's electricity is powered by coal.
And where does coal come from? If i did my homework right in grade 2; from the god damned ground. The issue arises when the average consumer who is generally expected to be a little be "green" in this day and age purchase electric products in retrospect of their nasty gas, petrol powered counterparts hoping when they go home they're saving the world one watt at a time.
Think again tools, cuz unless most people realise most electricity gets wasted as heat and sound while it travels in the power lines to recharge the god damned battery you're probably better off using petrol as i'm certain it shaves some energy loss.
What make me realise that "green" for vomit lawnmower is a fraud is the recharge time and official run time. It takes 12 hours to recharge the battery which is good for 1 and a half hours.
I read somewhere it takes 2 lumps of coal to send an email, and sending emails takes 2 minutes right?
Let's get the facts right, 70% of most consumers who have a stupid electric Earth saving lawnmower will be using approximately 1440 coals to fire up their stupid mower (using 2 lumps of coal for 10 minutes of electricity).
So take 3 moronic vegan, tree hugging planet savers who buy into this fraud of a contraption and like to save the world by keeping their gardens nice and green as their only hobby at the expense of our planet they are trying to save means 4320 pices of coal.
Given the popularity of stupid Toyota's and Hondas saturating the market with crappy electric vibrators with four tyres they call cars the figures for a greener planet seems pretty grim.
Electric cars are a doomed project from the beginning until our own Stephen Chow discovers hydro-fusion.
Wanna save the world?
Buy a petrol lawmower that uses 100ml of Earth cancer liquid (aka petrol) until tools realise electricity doesn't make a difference and probably does the opposite.
Trusty petrol.
When the power plants go down, who do they turn on to reliably power our city? mini PETROL guzzling generators.
I think it took 20 lumps of coal just to write this blog (it is true btw.) so i'm doing my bit. For all those who've bothered to read this crap article of no true reference (but i think i'm close) my 2 cents you've also wasted electricity and ur life. Kudos to you!
Ahh, the world is a sweet place. This is Jason Chung reporting, goodnight and suck my wang.
Tools.
-Jay
p.s: Jessica Simpson is the ugliest stuck up mole and i hope she gets hit by an electric car while crossing the street with Paris Hilton. We don't need people who's pebbles in their million dollar malibu mansions have more personality than they do nor do we need electric cars right now.
posted by ToFu @ 3/15/2005 01:50:00 am
3 comments
3 Comments:
It's funny how all your statements come with out any evidence, any thing to show that what you have said or written has come from factual information.
Let me start, green energy is a new type of energy that not only uses that of coal fire stations but that of other forms, eg wind power, solar power, hydro power etc. Green also means energy that is from a renewable source. There are even companies out there that allow you to change your power from the coal fire stations to green power. you dont actually get your power from a green source, but the company instead purchases green energy equivalent to that of your consumption and puts this back into the power grid.
here are some links for you
http://www.txu.com.au/global/environment/
programs.asp
http://www.txu.com.au/residential/productsoffers/
txugreenenergy.asp
here's some stats about Australia energy consumption
Coal Consumption (2002E): 159.6 million short tons (Mmst)
Electric Generation Capacity (2002E): 45.3 million kilowatts (84% thermal, 14% hydroelectric)
here's the site it came from
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/australi.html
so yes we do use a lot of coal, but as you can tell there is a growing trend to using green energy sources. if you compared these figures to that of years gone by you will see that green energy has made its place in our lives. you may not realise it which is evident in your unsubstantiated post.
Yes, coal comes from the ground, Australia acutally ranks as fourth largest in terms of coal production. was there any point to your statement?
Have you heard of the snowball effect? or the ripple effect? if you roll a little snowball down the slopes as it goes it picks up more and more and by the time it reaches the bottom, the snowball has grown larger then when you started rolling it. the ripple effect, all it takes is one drop to start a ripple. So what am i trying to say? It might only be one watt (your words) that they're saving, but if a million people save one watt, we have 1Million watts, that is enough to make a difference.
When electricity is transmitted along the power line, you have two main losses, heat and sound, as you have stated. The amounts lost is dependent on which section of the power grid you are talking about. So yes there is energy loss there, but the usage of petrol as a fuel source it self is not that energy efficient. What you might not realise is that to gain energy from petrol you need to combust it, which results in loss of energy through heat, sound and light.
here's some info:
Site:
http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/~tw/energy/prin.html
info: "overall maximum efficiency of about 30%. That means that 70% of the energy initially stored in the gasoline was lost "
ah so maybe your petrol loving isnt as good as you thought. would you like information on the efficiency of electricty? i'm not talking about creating electricity but using it. there is little heat or sound lost while using electricity. if you want to take it back to the creation of electricity then you will see that its more complex. coal has to burnt to heat water which then turns to steam and turns a turbine and there you go electricity. creation of petrol also takes a similar path, with crude oil needing to be heated to a specific temperature for it to be extracted. Thus, i stand by electricity for efficiency.
Now how big is your lump of coal? a kg? 10 kg? the green lawnmower isnt a bad idea as its uses its energy efficiently. how loud is a petrol lawnmore compared to an electric one? Note, sound energy lost. and how long does a full tank of petrol in a lawn more last? i think 1.5hrs is quite an achievement. and with technology, the older it gets the better it gets. Thus the recharge time of the battery will get better as they choose a different battery, or even a better charging unit. better yet what if it can be recharged by a solar panel? does that not make it totally efficient?
Now onto electric cars. I shall only focus on the prius as i'm stuck for time. The toyota Prius is quite ingenious in the fact that it uses petrol to get off the line, then electric power to keep constant acceleration, and only using the petrol engine when required. when the car brakes, the energy is recharged back into the batteries. now tell me does your car do that? if you burn your petrol to move forward and then brake, do you regain any of that lost energy? i dont believe you do.These electric cars might not be as powerful but interms of efficiency you have to admit they are better for the environment then yours. remember you dont need to have lightning acceleration everywhere. the car is designed as an evironmentally efficient car, not a sports car. if they called the Prius a sports car then there would be a problem.
Yes when power plants go down we do resort to petrol generators, but if you think petrol generators are so good, why arent they used instead of coal fired power plants? maybe because its too inefficient for supplying electricity on such a large scale.
To conclude i believe you need to research more and learn more about energy, consumption and the effects on the environment. your claims are fallacious and just concrete your insolence. Cars back then werent that efficient, but as time went on we have been able to extract more and more energy out of it, so why dont you give the hydro-electric cars some slack and see what the future beholds. By the way i dont drive a prius and am not a tree hugger, i merely find it stupendous for you to write such ludicrous statements. A bit of knowledge never hurts, but ignorance is of the degradation of our environment is a shortcoming.
btw, calling the ppl who read your posts "tools" is uncalled for.
Enjoy,
Anonymous
Who da fark is this anonymous guy? Self righteous mother farker! You can shove your txu crap right up your "A" hole! I'm not excited so you can eat a big piece of extra chunky jiff. We care not for you damn environmental lecture bullshit either as we all know you have not put your two cents in to try and save mother earth. For all we know you water your lawn with radiator coolant.
Oh yeah be happy in the fact that you will never see the end of the otto cycle in your lifetime biatch, so you can sit back relax and wait for the day your precious green power become the only way of life.
PS: degradate THIS KANT!
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for boring me to tears after the first paragraph that you went out of you way to consolidate a very fictional piece of writing that i DECLARED Is based on no factual evidence.
Okay, since you seem to be in a very educating mood I’ll share something with you myself. Listen up, it might be a little tough to grasp at first…
Fiction. Noun: Means the shit is probably not real or based on any kind of fact.
Hmm, i could've sworn they taught that in primary school?
Never mind, I forgive your ignorance and bigotry.
However, i did make points which you've now only contradicted yourself on "Yes, coal comes from the ground, Australia acutally ranks as fourth largest in terms of coal production. was there any point to your statement?"
The point here, tool is that we ain't that "green" but this time it wasn’t a Uni kid who is trying to joke around but some bigoted tool who sadly to say “owned himself”.
Nice try.
Well normally i do enjoy a read of articles which have had vigorous research and thought put into; a piece about a crap green lawnmower next to a picture with a doll with a penis is something i find to be hardly fictitious not to mention the "now with 20% bullshit" is probably something that isn't even the least bit trivial.. I don't wish to state the obvious even though i thought i made it clear with my bold letters... but people never really get it.
Wouldn't you agree?
Here's a good website i think you might find more to your liking:
http://howstuffworks.com
I'm sure you'll find that place to be a treat.
Though i've already read the electric cars in newspapers, on the internet and slowly been following it's progress since the beginning to be a very facinating discovery of mankind; you are not.
You only degraded yourself by telling everyone the obvious.
You just got served.
Oh by the way here's something for you...
Tool.
-Jay
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