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Originally Posted by Marbot
According to Bernie, F1 doesn't need to be green at all. Although I'm not sure how banning KERS and battery powered cars will make its environmental credentials better?
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KERS requires fossil fuels to be burnt to 'harvest' power. Thus not green. An expensive way of making engine power, but convenient go get "Push-To-Pass" systems into F1.
Battery powered cars require, usually, fossil fuels to be burnt to charge them (although, in theory, better power sources could be used, like Nuclear, with resulting gains in environmental protection), so batteries aren't green. Plus, the nasty metals and processes that are required to make them mean that the batteries themselves are pretty bad for the environment.
Although it could be worse - the power could be generated by really environmentally unfriendly ways like wind power.
But, there are a lot of government handouts to be got from doing stuff that isn't really 'green' but fits in with their vote-generating policies that are based entirely on misinformation. We might as well tax cars based on the quantity of washers used rather than CO2 production - neither actually have anything to do with planetary harm.