Pollution

This would be a good spot to address pollution as it related to Batteries and electricity production or various Fuels.

See also: WikiPedia:Pollution

• 2008.03.21 - autobloggreen.com - Study: zero emission vehicles could save $142 billion in health care costs
• http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-chapter5.pdf

IPCC has an excellent, if somewhat depressing, summary of the world transportation situation in their latest 2007 reports just out:

IPCC Fourth Assessment Report - Working Group III Report "Mitigation of Climate Change" - Transport and its infrastructure:

• http://www.worldchanging.com - "worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it's just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving."

"WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together."

• http://www.livingonearth.org
  • Seattle: KUOW 94.9FM - Tuesdays from 9pm–10pm
  • Bellingham - 90.3FM
  • Spokane: KPBX 91.1FM - Mondays, 12pm–1pm
  • Spokane: KSFC 91.9FM - Saturdays, 7am–8am

"Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10 top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US."

• http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
  Click on Options & Global Warming

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alternatepower/message/8425
  • The Battery Council International says that "more than 93% of the lead" from a battery is recycled [1].
  • The EPA estimates that "Nearly 90 percent of all lead-acid batteries are recycled" [2].

• http://www.postcarbon.org/

• http://rael.berkeley.edu/

• http://www.evadc.org/pwrplnt.pdf

• http://www.electroauto.com/info/pollmyth.shtml

• Climate change Temp Image [3] (note to self, render attachments!)

• 2006.09.05 - Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data for 800,000 years, data show much the same pattern.

A Pair of images from Wikipedia:Global warming: W:Carbon dioxide during the last 400,000 years and the rapid rise since the W:Industrial Revolution; changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, known as W:Milankovitch cycles, are believed to be the pacemaker of the 100,000 year W:ice age cycle.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e9/Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr-2.png/280px-Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr-2.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Co2-temperature-plot.svg/280px-Co2-temperature-plot.svg.png