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Metal or plastic...

bonkey · 2002-04-24 11:34:50

Here's an interesting question.... If you had to buy a car, would you prefer that its body's construction be as much as possible out of metal (steel, aluminium, etc) or plastics (fibreglass, carbon-fibre, etc) ? On one hand, the plastics offer lighter cars, allowing lighter more efficient engines to be used, which is good.…

24-04-2002 11:34am

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bonkey

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Here's an interesting question....

If you had to buy a car, would you prefer that its body's construction be as much as possible out of metal (steel, aluminium, etc) or plastics (fibreglass, carbon-fibre, etc) ?

On one hand, the plastics offer lighter cars, allowing lighter more efficient engines to be used, which is good.

On the other hand, plastics are nowhere near as recycleable as metals.....

Yes, I know that the ideal solution involves a clean energy source in the first place, but today, this is not available.

If you were buying a car today, this is one of your only effective environmental choices - metals or plastics.

jc

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#2 25-04-2002 11:58am

Saruman

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dunno.. what about other considerations like the manufacturing of these materials in the first place? Would the process of making the metal alloys etc be more harmful than the production of plastic or carbon fibre?

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