... is what has turned the Ford Model T into a Ford Mustang 5.0. Of course with this technology comes flaws. The biggest and most obvious flaw is pollution. Because of pollution, we find ourselves asking the question of whether this technology has helped our society more than it has hurt it. And now that we have identified ... able to make the certain steps in cleaning up our planet. III. Economic/Social Effects of Automobile Pollution Automobiles can be blamed for the majority of the air pollution easily. When looking at the top five contributors of air pollution, automobiles are responsib...

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... , we will be able to make the certain steps in cleaning up our planet. III. Economic/Social Effects of Automobile Pollution Automobiles can be blamed for the majority of the air pollution easily. When looking at the top five contributors of air pollution, automobiles are responsible for three of them. The most important, being carbon monoxide is released from the exhaust along with ... problem? For, if we construct more cars, we must construct more highways. More highways mean more rest stops and more development. This all in turn all results in more pollution, whether it is air pollutio...

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... generate the electricity to recharge EV batteries. It is much more efficient to control air pollution from a single power plant rather than from many individual automobiles. Electric vehicles with cleaner air as a byproduct, will improve the air quality especially in heavily congested areas such as New York and Los Angeles. With ... in the atmosphere. The emissions that come out of a vehicle depend greatly on the fuel that goes into it. Consequently, programs to control air toxics pollution have centered around changing fuel composition as well as around improving vehicle technology or ...

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... method be used when a less expensive one is already in place? The whole pollution situation becomes worsened when a lot of gas is consumed at once, putting more pollution in the air. A good number of scientists link pollution problems to global warming. The ozone layer has already been seriously depleted. The increased pollution does not help. The decrease in SUV use and the introduction of some ... new inventions can help curb pollution problems. One effort to stop pollution includes the new electric cars. Electric cars, ... according to the California Air Resource Board, compared to g...

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... and will carry on. Such as improving foreign oil dependence. In the future it can be completely shut out. Public transportation may give of bad gases into the air but not as much pollution is produced as the private transportation. "For every passenger mile traveled public transportation is twice as fuel efficient." And also "Public transportation saves more than ... 45 million barrels of oil. (Source 2) these quotes show that less fuel means less air pollution. This proves that our air quality is possible of change also showing how much we can change by not buying foreign oil. People m...

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... resource to be depleted. This stresses the need for an alternate energy source to power automobiles, and the redesign of the combustion engine to use this new energy source. Pollution of the air from fossil fuels is a problem that society has been aware of for quite some time. The Environmental Protection Agency reports "carbon monoxide results from incomplete combustion of fuel and ... domestically, this offers the potential for dramatically reducing the $50 billion the U.S. spends annually for imported oil. In addition, there is an opportunity to reduce the health costs of urban air p...

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... automakers: Start producing vehicles that are kinder to gods creation and we will urge the faithful to buy them." (Porretto 3D) pollution produced from internal combustion engines powered by petroleum-based fuels. These engines "emit significant amounts of air pollutants, air toxins, and carbon dioxide. The health effects of these pollutants range from headaches to serious respiratory damage such as lung cancer" ( ... gasoline, but it would also have greater fuel efficiency. Many companies have already converted to the natural gas aspect of internal combustion engines due to their gaine...

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... . This means that by driving around a fuel cell car you will save the government $8,300 that would otherwise be used to clean up the pollution caused from an internal combustion car. Fuel cell vehicles could also help resolve some differences between the Middle Eastern countries and the U.S. There are five ... used such as: methanol, ethanol, or natural gas. Basically what happens is that hydrogen enters one side of the fuel cell and oxygen (from the air) enters in the other side. The two elements combine with a catalyst and react to create electricity. This electricity flows through a ci...

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... aims to create affordable, midsize passenger vehicles that will achieve 80 mi per gallon (three times greater than the average achieved in 1994) or better, and reduce air pollution (El-Messidi, Automobile Industry)". This goal set by Bill Clinton set the tone for new technologies. An array of new technology is coming into the playing field ... take over the market of cars. "A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen fuel and oxygen from the air to produce electricity, heat and water. Fuel cells operate without combustion, so they are virtually pollution free. Since th...

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... the period, a 1918 Milburn Electric. In the 1960's and 1970's a handful of electric car manufactures started to reappear because of the increasing concern about air pollution and a depleting supplies of petroleum. In the late 1970's and 1980's, manufactures started developing electric cars called hybrids. These cars have all the components of ... : There are many advantages to driving an electric car. First, they produce no exhaust pollutants, so their widespread use could reduce air pollution. Second, they use batteries so they do not consume petroleum resources. Third, electric cars a...

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... to electric energy that can be stored in the battery. (Kang, 2007) According to Environmental Protection Agency, transportation is the major source of air pollution in today's world. They identified some of the harmful vehicle emissions which include nitrogen oxides, greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons. Hybrid ... emission which could protect the environment and the public health. Hybrid vehicles lessen the carbon dioxide emissions in half and reduce smog-forming pollution by up to 90%. Hybrid vehicles are built with lightweight parts and are very compact in size. The eng...

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... correct level. New technology and improvements in vehicles made it hard to keep the existing regulations current. In 1990, Congress passed a new Clean Air Act, with higher tailpipe emissions standards for cars and light trucks, which limited opportunities for fuel-economy improvement. Along with the smaller, more ... is one of the biggest reasons for which CAFÉ standards exist. Exhaust from vehicles contains carbon dioxide, which is a large contributor to pollution. An average mid-sized vehicle, such as a Ford Taurus can emit up to as much as 74 tons of CO2 in an average ... choice and c...

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... of the viewer, in fact this is the backbone of the documentary. As the funeral scene ends, the audience is shown a montage of clips each showing pollution. A scene of a busy highway, a smoggy metropolis city scape, a tail pipe emitting copious amounts of smoke. The scenes are very effective and really ... grab the viewer. While the montage is going, a authoritative sounding announcer goes through many different facts about smoke and pollution levels in California's most densely populated regions, all the while building the association in the viewers minds that it is a direct result of ca...

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... anything from trains to ships. More recently, "biomass fired steam power has been used to generate electricity [which] can have numerous environmental and air-quality advantages over burning fossil fuels" (How Biomass Energy Works"). But biomass has other uses than just the generation of electricity, it can also ... very nature of biomass energy requires that it be burned and even if the organic material is low-carbon, it will still emit some pollution and carbon emissions. Another disadvantage is that biomass is neither as economical nor efficient as the burning of fossil fuels. In othe...

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... have come a long way. Today's cars come standard with something's that were considered luxuries not just 10 years ago. For example, air conditioning only came standard in cars starting in 1987 when an engineer came up with a way to create air circulation in cars at the dispense of its gas rather than it battery. Cars today have been made to get you ... wheels of the car. (2) This is a picture of a Nitrogen powered car with its inventors. As nitrogen gas is the main element in air, and pure nitrogen gas is the only product of the reaction involved, there is no pollution produced by runni...

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