Ah yes, but that’s Toronto, where the buses, trams and underground are wonderful, reliable and on time, and where things generally around the city are well thought out, as they are in many major European cities. We, however unfortunately live in the UK which has a remarkable lack of ability to do things well!
Paul
Yes, I’ve seen evidence of other european cities enforcing recycling well. I don’t know what the rest of the UK is like, but the Edin council collects recycled bottles/tins/paper/garden waste etc every two weeks which I would say is a step in the right direction.
I say the same thing everytime a ‘pollution’ thread pops up on these forums….yes air travel of course contributes and may increase as more airlines form and more jets are ordered, but more of an emphasis is put on efficient and ecconomical powerplants than other industries and as such the contribution is lower than – as has already been mentioned – eg cars.
I was told that hydrogen powered engines for planes are possible (thus only producing water as a by-prodeuct), however storage of the fuel is a great difficulty (15 tonnes storage for every 1 tonne of fuel) and also carbon is produced when making the fuel so it’s not carbon neutral anyway.
The trouble we have is that the goverments of the western world are heavily ‘in the pockets’ of the major petro-chemical companies and they quite frankly don’t give a damn…
Just as a note, this isn’t strictly the case. A lot of investment is being put into Nuclear programmes AND renewable sources – there is a lot of funding available for hydrogen solutions and fuel cell development. Main reason is, the easiest, quickest and cheapest ways of producing the fuel needed for the latter two are, in fact, through using energy made available from fossil fuels.
As a reuslt of this, non-renewable companies aren’t as scared of renewable fuels as you think they would be as their fuel is still recquired (at the moment) to produce these fuels.
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