Is it me, or it is getting hot in here?The elusive Electric Car and more.
On the usual last Thursday of the month, Consilience Forum hosted a presentation by Konrad J. on the topic of Global Warming. Or "Global Heating," as some insist we call it: a fuzzy blanket can be warm. We are talking about a process more similar to slowly heating a pot of water - and we're the frog sitting in it!
Konrad, loaded with his impressive electronic equipment, gave a short outline of what the process is, and demonstrated a lot of data and facts on how it is beint tried to be dealt with. The highlight of his presentation, howewer, was the brief history of the electric car. Not the hybrid car, not one of the many prototypes wchich we see being unveiled from time to time, only to fade into obscurity. A real deal, fully functional, available to any consumer (provided they live in California) electric car that was relased in the Nineties (!) and was proving to be a viable alternative. Unfortunately, it was backed out from the market by the producer, due to car and fuel industries pressure.
All the time when we've been hearing that the wholly electric cars are not developed enough yet to be practicall to use on the wide market - to slow, to costly, to difficult to charge - it had been proven wrong already.After the presentation, we got ourselves in a holiday mood by plaing some Christmas-themed party games, like "pin the nose on a reindeer," ate (vegetarian) bigos, and listened to carrols.
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posted by Rostkowianka @ 11:37 PM
2 Comments:
It was a very informative meeting indeed. And as much as the car (in its current form) is an eco-culprit, it becomes the red-herring in the discourse. According to a UN report on climate change, what we eat, specifically meat, and the entire infrastructure that supports our global appetite contributes more climate heating emissions than all the cars in the world combined...
First I want to thank all the people who came to see my presentation and took part in the discussion after it. Of course big thanks to Jordan and his wife for inventing and organizing the whole event and for the delicious vegetarian meals - never thought that bigos can be that good without meet:)
Speaking about the global warming, the discussion showed that the topic is even hotter then the global warming itself:) It's an interesting fact that meat production causes so much warming, but I think this argument is to less "spectacular" that's why it's not popular. Also it's easier to make people segregate their trash than to make them stop eating meat...
Konrad
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