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Old 09-07-2009, 08:12 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jkp1187 View Post
Please see below. The report cited in the original post (from CNW Marketing? Really? A Marketing company?) is junk science and is pretty much worthless.
Google it. It's on multiple websites of various topics.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

This article is seen on as many webpages that fit on 12 PAGES OF GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS.

The production of hybrid batteries is a very real danger to the enviromnent:

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Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.

The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.

“The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.
All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn’t end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce ‘nickel foam.’ From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce?
Junk science? I think not. I could see that coming from someone thinking that Global Warming is a hoax, though.

Last edited by Hermie; 09-07-2009 at 08:40 PM..