{"id":466,"date":"2009-05-17T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-05-17T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:20:26","slug":"the-beginners-guide-to-green-motoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Green\u00a0Motoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th century has the seen the rise of the car in the western world. It has impacted the evolution of our cities, our roads and our houses &#8211; and we have therefore become rather dependent on them. We co-exist!<\/p>\n<p>However, the effects of carbon emissions are emerging now and we find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma &#8211; to drive, or not to drive?<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who can&#8217;t give it up, I have written a series of articles looking at the environmental impact of the motor car and looking at what we should be doing to\u00a0minimize\u00a0our impact.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_326\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-326\" style=\"border:0 none initial;margin:0;padding:0;\" title=\"hummer\" alt=\"hummer\" src=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/hummer.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hummer.jpg 394w, https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hummer-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas guzzler.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/17\/what-makes-an-efficient-car\/\">1. What makes an efficient car?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/17\/green-car-technologies-explained\">2. Green car technologies explained&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/19\/greener_ices\/\">3. Making the internal combustion engine greener<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/19\/how-to-drive-more-efficiently\/\">4. How to drive more efficiently<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, but I will hopefully add more in time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#551a8b;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#999999;\">\u00a9Jarrod R. Hart 2009<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th century has the seen the rise of the car in the western world. It has impacted the evolution of our cities, our roads and our houses &#8211; and we have therefore become rather dependent on them. We co-exist! However, the effects of carbon emissions are emerging now and we find ourselves on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10,12],"tags":[253,61,86,92,257,264,267,268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}