Acid rain, the permanent and irrevocable change of climate, acidified water are things that will await humans in the future if we do not know how to control our emission of CO2.
Although global warming was just a theory not a long time ago, now 98% of the world’s scientist believe it is real. By no means are cars responsible for all the build up, that would be infantile to say. But as most complex problems, this has a lot of complex causes, exhaust gas from cars being one of them.
If you are not familiar, basically how this works is that cars use up fossil fuels by burning them. The gas you put in gets vaporized, the vapor is lit by a spark, explodes, thus moving the car’s pistons. But the byproduct of this action is carbon dioxide or CO22 for short. This gas does not let the heat from our sun escape, thus heating the atmosphere.
Being aware of this, most civilized countries in the world have implemented regulations designed to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide. And seeing as those countries usually make all the cars, the regulations get imported all over the world. Now as previously stated, it would be childish to only blame CO2 emissions of cars, seeing as heavy industry does more than its share of polluting. So, how can people improve this aspect?
Well there is a multitude of ways to do this. The most obvious and intuitive one being to design an engine that doesn’t consume as much, but still produces enough power. That has been done, and even cars that are not electric or hybrids get better mileage as those from past generations. Carpooling is also a fashionable trend. Car pooling is when you share your ride to work with other people, so you don’t have to each take your own individual car. This is a nice idea because it is basically like going on the bus and using means of public transportation, but you don’t have to commute with strangers. The people you are riding with are all friends, or at least co-workers.
But what does taking weight out of chairs have to do with this? How can that possibly help with less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Well the basic principle is that the lighter the car is, the less the engine will have to work to move it. And the less the engine works, the less fuel it demands. It is pretty straightforward if you think about it. Cynics might say that 5 kg is not that big of a deal. And they might be right, it is not. But in the long term it will matter believe me. This is car engineering at its best, trimming the models to perfection. And it does not matter if the changes to the models are flashy and impressive, or modest and hard to notice. The only thing that counts is the size of your wallet when you fuel up. Pay attention to this when hearing any car price estimation.
