[DeTomaso] Wondering how California banning fosil fuel in 27 years will impact the long term value of our cars?

[larry at ohiotimecorp.com]

Oh like this program???


Three years ago, the drought-stricken city of Los Angeles covered the surface of the LA Basin with 96 million shade-providing floating balls, in order to keep the water beneath from evaporating. Now, an international study suggests that the making of the plastic balls may have used up more water than they saved.


The "shade balls" were left in place on the reservoir for approximately one and a half years, during the latter part of the 2011 - 2017 California drought. According to the study, they kept an estimated 1.7 million cubic meters (60 million cubic feet) of water from evaporating. Unfortunately, however, it is also estimated that production of the balls used up 2.9 million cubic meters of water (102 million cubic feet). This happened at locations where the oil and natural gas used to produce the plastic were refined, and where the electricity necessary for production was generated.

In order for the shade balls to save as much water as was used in manufacturing them, they would reportedly have to be left on the reservoir for at least two and a half years – and that's only if drought conditions persisted for the entire period.

Additionally, the study points out that the manufacturing process would have had other negative environmental costs, such as the generation of carbon emissions and water pollution.


"We are very good at quick technological fixes, but we often overlook the long-term and secondary impacts of our solutions," says study co-author Dr. Kaveh Madani, from Imperial College London. "This is how the engineering community has been solving problems; solving one problem somewhere and creating a new problem elsewhere … We are not suggesting that shade balls are bad and must not be used. We are just highlighting the fact that the environmental cost of shade balls must be considered together with their benefits."

The findings of the study, which also included scientists from MIT in the US and the University of Twente in the Netherlands, were recently published in the journal Nature Sustainability.

Source: Imperial College London


Larry (gots balls) - Cleveland


-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of Curt Hall
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Wondering how California banning fosil fuel in 27 years will impact the long term value of our cars?

MoonBeam and his Cronies are Pushing more and more Businesses and Tax Paying Citizens Out of this State! Looking at Out of State Property Myself! These California Turds in Office need to be Flushed!
 

    On Monday, September 17, 2018 6:49 PM, Ken Green via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
 

   Sounds like Brown signed the bill today?
  A friend who works for an electric company said rates will go way up.
  Ken
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