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Old 06-10-2008, 11:57 AM   #18 (permalink)
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A nice article about peak lithium: Forget peak oil. Are we facing peak lithium? - AutoblogGreen
Given that the air car probably doesn't need specific metals, it has advantages.
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Also lithium batteries technology is more efficient from a pure technical standpoint, but doesn't help clean up the mess our "friends", the oil co's have created.
To really evaluate the technology you would need both numbers about the energy effiency of those air cars compared to the energy effiency of an electric car.
It would also be nice to have number about how much air a car like this would filter.
I'm by nature sceptical about claims that a given technology is THE thing, if the manufactor doesn't provide clear numbers.
Engineering not about just telling a good story.
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Anything to cripple Oil Co's screwed up worldview, that fossil fuel technology does not harm the atmosphere, and conversely the air we are forced to breathe.
The air we breath is a different problem than the climate change problem.
CO2 probably won't get effectivly filtered out be that car because the car would need to store the CO2 somehow.
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