Besides providing an option for our cars is to promote bamboo as a viable material in the actual construction of green cars. At least one manufacturer of electric cars is the possibility of using bamboo fiber resin and vegetables for the body of the car to explore in the same way as bamboo composite materials currently in use by the production of surfboards.
Carbon fiber is currently the material most in demand among those who have to lighter vehicles, higher fuel consumption. Carbon fiber is much lighter than conventional alternatives for car bodies, about half the weight of steel and thirty percent lighter than aluminum. Only ten percent reduces total vehicle weight increases fuel consumption by over six per cent.
However, although carbon construction, the environmental impact of cars and significantly reduce fuel a cost are linked, is a relatively expensive to thirty dollars per kilogram, and tends to complement the first prize. At the same time, can contribute to lower vehicle emissions, which produces its own during the production process, with half the coal used for the manufacture of fibers, can be released as carbon dioxide.
In general, when the carbon fiber products have reached the end of its life cycle, or be placed in landfills or incinerated, resulting in more emissions. Bamboo offers an option with many rewards states more for the environment, as well as the much cheaper but of comparable quality. The plant grows at a remarkable speed and converts carbon dioxide into oxygen at a rate faster than the trees. After harvesting, the fibers can be broken by mechanical or chemical processes, but it has extremely high heat and the specific conditions for the creation of carbon fiber.
Carbon fiber is stronger and wide as the bamboo, but it’s still better than a replacement material with twice the force of an equal weight of fiberglass. In the search for alternative resources as we search for a greener future, what else could be something more alternative, with applications in virtually all important aspects of American life?
