Even though automakers and environmentalists are pushing new
electric and hybrid electric cars, claiming less pollution to
make our Mother Earth unhappy with our wasteful ways, it seems
they come with demons of their own. Well, maybe not so much. The
media has certainly been filled with talk of the cleaner cars
lately. Everything from MIT's City Car to the Lightning Car
Company's 700HP sports car to Chevrolet’s Equinox fuel cell SUV
which DailyTech got to take for a little spin this January.
What's the deal? Well, obviously if you have cars running on
electricity, they aren't churning out megatons of air and water
pollutants each year. Well, the cars won't be, but the whole
"where does the power get made to power the cars then" quandary
can be fought with later. Today we'll make note of a much
stranger side effect of all these silent, battery and (noble)
gas driven people movers. From the University of Texas at Austin
comes research projecting that there's going to be a pretty
large quantity of one of our mos