Another reason to convert from Nitro - global warming! - RC-Monster Forums

JThiessen · 07.29.2009, 03:12 PM

'nuther thing that kinda got my attention was going to Glacier Nation park last year, and just seeing the difference in the Glaciers from when I was there 9 years ago was amazing - you pretty much have to do overnight hikes to get to where you see any of the glaciers now.

Yeah, its hard to wade through the political arguments for/against it. I'm a skeptical data type person - and it's taken me a while to start thinking that I should look at trying to make some changes. Not certain that I'm taking it serious enough to even touch my truck in any way, but its got me thinking.

zeropointbug · 07.29.2009, 03:47 PM

There is nowhere near enough lithium on planet earth to make lipo batteries to equip even a fraction of the worlds fleet.

We need something else, some other type of battery, maybe if Europositron ever comes out with their aluminum battery (plenty of aluminum in the earth!), as it is supposedly cheap as dirt to produce, and has energy densities up around 1500Wh/kg! A typical lipo pack we use is around 140 - 150Wh/kg. IIRC, it would cost something like $3000 to have a range of 1000miles in a typical car.

zeropointbug · 07.29.2009, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by JThiessen

'nuther thing that kinda got my attention was going to Glacier Nation park last year, and just seeing the difference in the Glaciers from when I was there 9 years ago was amazing - you pretty much have to do overnight hikes to get to where you see any of the glaciers now.

Yeah, its hard to wade through the political arguments for/against it. I'm a skeptical data type person - and it's taken me a while to start thinking that I should look at trying to make some changes. Not certain that I'm taking it serious enough to even touch my truck in any way, but its got me thinking.

Have you guys seen Antarctica the last couple years, huge chunks are breaking off! Some other non-mainstream conforming scientists say that the ice will melt a an increasingly exponential rate than what is commonly accepted... even the accepted time range (forecast) was drastically changed this year, and they think it has to be changed again.

BTW, have you guys heard the rumor that Nasa was withholding evidence that their are pyramids under the ice in Anterctica?

Modding_out · 07.29.2009, 04:42 PM

You guys have been eating algores BS and watching to much tv. do the research. GLOBAL WORMING IS NATURAL, it's caused by sun spots which are basically really hot freckles on the suns surface. not carbon dioxide.

If you chart c02, earth temperature, and sun spots threw the last 2000 years, suns spots and the earths temp follow each other, co2 actually goes the opposite direction!

You guys are worried about global warming, wasn't there going to be an ice age 30 years ago? look it up, SUN SPOTS! imagine that.......

If you want to argue with me about it, do your research before you bitch.

Also, I do believe that all the emissions laws that they have will help us be good stewards of our planet, but it has NOTHING to do with global warming. Global warming is a farce, it's just some thing algore and a bunch of scientists pulled out of there ass to make money.