Electric Car's Effect on the World

This article discusses the pros and cons of the electric car and how it will effect the world. The article is promoting the cars because they: Release less polution than regular cars, require less maintenance, and will eventually with increase of demand decrease in price. A big focus in the article was that the cars "Run silent, run fast, run clean". This is important becasue its trying to say that the cars run just as well as other cars if not better but also help promote staying green. With the massive emphasis placed on recycling and staying green as of late the electric car is ready to launch its industry. The timing couldn't be any better for these cars to be released to the public, as long as the prices can be dropped the cars will be an instant success. The cars will continue to increase in range, speed, and flexibility with the more technology that comes out. The cars will begin to drop in recharge time while being able to travel longer off of each charge. Atlanta is one area that is really making a push for the release of these cars as they are projected to have over 200 recharge stations in the years to come.
I think that with the introduction of the electric car our country will begin to really become more green. We need to realize how fast we are destroying our world and that every single persons choices can help. If every person bought a electric car to replace their own the amount of polution we would be preventing is astonomical. The electric car could be one of the first steps to really helping preserve our natural resources and saving the world.

Source Citation:
Barry, Tom. "Electric Cars Can Reduce Air Pollution." Opposing Viewpoints: Energy Alternatives. Ed. Helen Cothran. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2002. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Deerfield High School. 10 Feb. 2010 http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T010&prodId=OVRC&docId=EJ3010220227&source=gale&srcprod=OVRC&userGroupName=deer63488&version=1.0.

The Electric Car

Although most think the electric car has seemingly been a recent atempt to improve the automobile, it has infact been a concept since the beginning of cars. Technology hasn't been able to produce an electric car that has made enough sense economically to mass produce, untill now. Companies began making hybrid cars that were built to although still revolve around their gas powered engines were also able to use a battery in order to improve gas consumption. There are many problems however with the new fully electric cars: What is the easiest way to charge the cars? how long will the batteries last? Will they have the same functionability as gas powered cars? Many companies believe that the technology is still not yet available to produce the fully equiped electric cars however Chevrolet is releasing its Volt late next year and believes that it will be succesfull. Another big problem is with the audio systems, air conditioners, how much battery power will be needed for a car to function properly? At an auto show many automakers were comical with the introduction of hours-to-recharge on a cars dashboard. The Volt will take close to 23 hours for just 150 miles of driving.

If this market is ever going to take off I believe that they need to find a much faster form of recharging these cars. The automobile industry took off becasue of the flexibility it gave people with such a low downtime. All people had to do was fill up with gas, taking maybe 5-10 minutes of their days and were then able to drive upwards of 500 miles. Now, these new cars need a full day to travel less tahn 1/3 of that distance? The sales of these cars will never come close to that of regular cars untill they can fix this problem. Another big problem with these cars is that once a normal car has retired it can be almost 100% recycled and reused in other cars or other industries. When a battery powered car is recycled the battery is filled with toxic waste that can't be easily dealt with. Automakers must find solutions to these problems before they should try to release their products. I do think however that once these problems are fixed that these cars will be the thing of the future. Especially with the focus on staying green with the turn of the century, these cars will help us preserve our natural resources in the land. With all the new technology we have destroyed our earth and many eco friendly people will see buying these cars as a first step to helping save the rest of our beautiful earth.

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Source Citation:
Moran, Tim. "Dealing with realities of an electric-car fleet.(Automobiles)(GREENTECH)." The New York Times. 158. 54566 (Jan 25, 2009): 7(L). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Deerfield High School. 8 Feb. 2010 .

Stem Cell Research

Stem Cell Research has been a huge new technology advancement in the scientific field. Stem cells can be used for hundreds of medical and scientific purposes. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson has determined through research adult stem cells have a much higher success rate than that of embryonic cells. While embryonic stem cells are very usefull in drug testing and are able to form into all different types of cells. Adult stem cells on the other hand are infact one of the safest and best treatments and suprisingly hasn't really even been introduced to the public. The adult stem cells are able to bypass rejection, disease transmission, chromosomal abnormalities, and uncontrolled growth because the stem cells can be taken from a persons own body. Stem cells are a huge focus for medical technology because they are projected to eventually be able to cure hundreds of different of diagnoses and could be one of the biggest medical advancements in history. Doctors believe that this future for medicine isn't too far away and more and more reseach is being done every day. While adult stemcells are continuously succeeding they won't become the main sorce of stem cell treatment untill a more safe way to derive the cells is found. One of the biggest questions is if they can be found in sperm?
How amazing would it be if doctors could take your own cells, treat them, and then replace them into your body to heal a disease or other diagnoses. Science and medicine has advanced so much in recent years and its too crazy to think about. What if these cells could be used as permenant treatments for AIDS, cancer, and other huge problems. Society must realize how close we are to something so big like this and help with donations for research and helping in any other way they can. Treatments like this could change our world forever.

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Jean Peduzzi-Nelson. "Adult Stem Cells Are More Promising than Embryonic Stem Cells." Opposing Viewpoints: Stem Cells. Ed. Jacqueline Langwith. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Deerfield High School. 8 Feb. 2010 .