At least that is what an Israeli company thinks. The certain company figured out a way to transform the gas emissions into energy.

Specialists at Haifa want to install, on their roads, generators that will collect the polluted gases that cars leave behind and transform it into electricity. But their initiative has some practical problems, as these generators should be placed beneath the layer of asphalt.

The results however would be spectacular. A generator placed beneath one kilometer of asphalt could produce 500kw per hour, enough energy to sustain more than 800 households.

Their discovery is by all means a great one and would indeed have spectacular results. The question that remains unanswered is “would any country reconstruct their entire infrastructure for this” ? Hopefully, they will realize how much this could help the planet and give it at least a second thought than simply saying no to it as soon as they hear about what it takes to do this. Even though many people might have blamed car washing companies for not being at all safe for the environment, they actually are.

Regarding commercial car washes, these, as any other business, want to make money. The main thing every car wash needs is, well, water. Therefore, water is the thing they pay for the most. This lead to creating special systems that control the amount of water used in a single wash, thus being more cost effective to run and economical for the water suply.

Yes, but most of the people that say car washes aren’t good for the environment aren’t necessarily talking about the amount of water used, but about where the water goes after being used, filled with dirt and cleaning chemicals. Well, they will be glad to learn that, for the same reason – that of cutting the costs down, most car washes have private recycling systems through which they reuse the same water over and over again for a number of cars.

Apparently, washing your car at a commercial car wash takes 45 gallons of water. Washing your car by yourself at home takes between 80 and 140 gallons of water. The cleaning chemicals infested water at a car wash is recycled and does not go back into rivers or lakes, damaging the Eco system, as for the waste water resulted from someone washing its car at home, goes untreated into the environment and causes environmental damage to lakes, streams and river eco-systems.

Now with Spring just around the corner and sunny days ahead, most of you will wash their cars. Keep these things in mind before deciding between washing your car by yourself or paying a few dollars more and taking it to a car wash. You will be thanked by your children’s children.

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