I want one!

[ultrablue662]

USB Beverage Chiller

You know you do too!

[Vinpin]

I have a USB kitkat beverage warmer.

Like if you are offer tea in office and you forgot to drink it. you come next day, and gosh! its still warm.

This promotional cup I got from a local supermarket.

[noixe]

lol, umm, vinpin, let me point out sumthing

sori, but one wud have to be mentally unstable to drink a day old cup of tea:P hell, even a day old open cold cola wud b undrinkable:P but yea, i want the chiller, altho, i wonder how it is on power consumption... with all the earth day hypes, i wna go green and help the world too

PPL, USE FUEL EFFICENT CARS!! :P

[fangpyre]

Originally Posted by noixe

PPL, USE FUEL EFFICENT CARS!! :P

Those don't exist in the UAE.
Plus, one study suggests an old used gas guzzler is actually better for the environment than a brand new hybrid.

[Zaid Al Hilali]

Originally Posted by fangpyre

Those don't exist in the UAE.
Plus, one study suggests an old used gas guzzler is actually better for the environment than a brand new hybrid.

I'd like to read about it, can you point to the study please.

[fangpyre]

I'll need to look for it.
But the basic idea is that it takes a lot of energy to make a new car.
The pollution the old car makes is better than making a new one, even if it is more economic.

I don't remember if this for the cost of disposing or recylcing the old car.
But it doesn't take into consideration the concept of "pollution localization".
Where pollution is localized in cities and countries, but rather looks at pollution as a total from the planets point of view.

I'm not sure if that is true or not.
But in environmental economics, it is best to reuse than to recycle.
So you are essential "reusing" the old car.
The hybrid "recycles" its energy.

[noixe]

hmmm, very very interesting
but i doubt using an old car is better than making and using a newer one... altho, when i said "fuel efficent" i ddnt mean newer ones, i just meant cars tht rnt manufactured in the US :P cuz cmon, we all know US cars consume the most amount of fuel on the planet :P but the way their fuel prices are going, they better do sumthing abt tht efficency :P

ow and fang, if u do get ur hands on tht study, cud u please post a link or sum details about it? i'd love to read on how they prove their point... cuz u see, even if energy is wasted in making newer cars, imagine how much is wsated when the old car engine cant combust the petrol to its fullest. not only does it waste KJs of energy per second, it also sends the unburnt hydrocarbons namely CO, CO2 and NO2 into the air which we then breathe in thru our mouths and noses...

[fangpyre]

I can't find the "studies".
But here are a few theories.

Don't Buy That New Prius! Test-Drive a Used Car Instead
Go Green -- Buy a Used Car. It's Better Than a Hybrid | Autopia from Wired.com
Edmunds Data Proves Diesel "Break-Even" Is Shorter Than Hybrids

What you are saying, Noixe, is true.
But here is a question, which is better:-
- 5 pounds of carbon here
- or 15 pounds the other side of the world?

So is a solution puts a lot of pollution in 1 already polluted location, but overall makes less a good idea? So if it is less "in our nose" and more on the Ozone, or more in our nose and easier on the Ozone?

Now, is anybody amazed at how this post drastically changed course?
BTW, Noixe, I'd like to point out that I'm from Detroit.
I could see the Ford office from school, and the GM office was always looming over me.
Funny, those memories always come back with the smell of gasoline.
Of course that would explain why my name is Fangpyre.

[noixe]

LOL!!!! im feel sori for the way u grew up, nothing personal btw, just talking abt all the gasoline and the amount of braincells it might have damaged:P
and abt the ozone, overall less wud always be better, i agree to tht. but i still think tht the theories are theories, without any proof. + the hybrids coming up are gona be running on Fuel-Cells, as early as 2010, now tell me tht those are gona pollute more :P according to all the hype, there wont be ANY carbon emmisions... and i still think tht if u take around a 1980 Mercedes or a Cressida, it;ll be polluting mch mch more overall than a 2005 Volkswagon or any small car... when i said fuel-efficent, i meant dump the V8s and the Mustangs and the Skylines and go for a small Tiida or an A class Mercedes.. DOWN WITH HUMVs!!! :P sowi, nuthin against the US :P its just, THEY DO 8 MILES A GALLON!!!! OMG!! I'D DO MORE IF THEY MADE ME DRINK A GALLON OF GAS:P

and yes, this post has drastically changed.... :P thts y its listed in Around the Watercooler