Stimpy wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:09:01 +0100, John Wright wrote
>> Stimpy wrote:
>>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:09:25 +0100, John Wright wrote
>>>> I drive a Prius.
>>>>> Ah yes. One of the most polluting cars ever built when considered on a
>>>>> 'dust to dust' basis
>>>>>
>>>> If you're thinking of the report that CMH marketing put out its been
>>>> widely discreduted as totally wrong. Even the Daily Wail had to remove
>>>> an article about this based on stuff from CMH from its website after it
>>>> was demonstrated to be totally incorrect.
>>> Who or what is CMH?
>> My mistake, doing it from memory, it should be CNW. The only reference
>> to that I can find is it stands for Coastal North West. #
>
> Nope, sorry... Still means nothing to me as regards the Prius
They produced a report called The Dust to Dust Energy Report which was
widely criticised as being somewhat inaccurate. One thing they said was
that in dust to dust terms the Prius used more energy than a Hummer.
Partly by ascribing silly total mileages to each and partly by using
outdated data on the production of Nickel at Sudbury in Canada. (on the
basis that using NiMH batteries the Prius used a lot)
An updated version of this is available at
http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
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