Okay, to respond:
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
How do you sterilize plastic?
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Full sterilization isn't necessary. Simply wash with warm water and soap, rinse, and reuse. I've been using the same PLASTIC drinking mug for my daily frapps, instead of buying (and throwing away) a new plastic cup every day. It should last me for most of a year, if I'm careful, or maybe 200+ plastic cups not wasted.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The most polluting time for a car (internal compustion engine) is the first couple of minutes of running.
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That's actually about 1 minute, with modern cars. And once they're warmed up, they can be restarted on less fuel than it takes to idle, thanks to electronic-controlled fuel injection. Welcome to the 21st century!
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Besides, do you always know how long you'll be idling? And what if you car doesn't restart? Been known to happen...
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Now, you're just nit-picking... but okay: If your car doesn't restart, it's probably a sign that it needs service, IOW, it is not running efficiently. Take the hint!
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I voluntarily use compact fluorescent, but what about the mercury they contain? (which isn't in incandescent bulbs.)
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Compact fluorescents can also be recycled when done.
Don't throw them away... take them to a recycling center, and they'll be used again, Mercury and all.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Let's see, we stop water from flowing into the sea by artificial means, then when we let it go, it's wasteful... Hmmm.... It evaporated from the ocean and falls as rain that flows down into the resevoirs, completing the loop...It's a closed loop...
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It's not the
water, Ralph... it's the energy required to clean it and pump it to you.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Sense is never common (R.A.Heinlein), nor are choices "crystal clear", as I have noted. The problem is I do think, and I don't automatically buy somebody else's world view. You should always question everything as that is the path to knowledge.
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I'm not saying "don't think." I'm saying that there may well be things you haven't thought of (like the water example above). I know there's plenty of things I haven't thought of, and I'm constantly learning
something from
someone.
Think again, and check out others who may have thought of things you haven't.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Maybe they won't care, driving around in their electric cars, charged off their rooftops. Or maybe they'll shoot the Fed and The Federal government for debasing the currency to nothing...
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Or maybe they'll take away what social security is left, and throw everyone over 70 into old folks' barracks. (Hey... sarcasm is fun!)
At any rate, as I said, most conservation and wasteful practices are easy to recognize. We've just become pre-programmed by media and government to not think about them, to embrace and even celebrate the ease at which we can toss the nastiest things into the nearest trash can and thereby forget they ever existed.
That mindset is still prevalent in the American culture, and it's high time to get it out of there.