Master Dissertation on Hybrids from London

The questionnaire is somewhat flawed. It presumes we all live in cities, towns, or villages; I live in the country, rural! Question 32 presumes you do not own a hybrid, but you must answer the question nonsensically if you do own one.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bill Merchant @ Jul 8 2007, 03:14 AM) [snapback]474985[/snapback]</div>

I agree. Some of the other questions about my perceptions of cars and hybrids also made no sense since I already owned one.

It really needed two sections beginning with do you own a hybrid car? If so...skip to part II. If not....do part I. Or something like that. And a check to see that you didn't answer both and didn't have to answer what wasn't needed. This is probably the fault of using a simple online survery generator as opposed to a paper survey.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 8 2007, 10:07 AM) [snapback]475064[/snapback]</div>

Actually, it wouldn't be very hard to do what you asked, but it would be custom. A survey this should would take about 4-8 hours to code from scratch, more if you wanted to make it look pretty and have a more complicated work flow.

For 32 I just put neither agree nor disagree as it was the best choice.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(catgic @ Jul 20 2007, 12:48 AM) [snapback]482106[/snapback]</div>

I disagree. There is no village here. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48,

The salient point is that a village is a collection of dwellings. When there is no collection of dwellings, I consider it "in the country, rural."

 

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I PMd you, catgic. Yes, I can drive to the store, gas station, etc., but I don't live near them. They are several miles from my house. My objection to the survey is its point of view that all people live in urban environments. I don't.

 

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I found this link very useful related to your field of dissertation topic: Hybrid Vehicle Information

Sara Micheal

 

Same here ... maybe they took it down to fix the questions. Hopefully the questioner will pay heed to our comments that some questions are non-sequitur. It's kind of sad comment on research, but common. Too often the researcher presumes the conclusions, and or doesn't fix their study to a narrowly defined objective. My favorite was coffee research. At one time, it showed that coffee can cause a ton of health problems. They simply failed to weed out all those who were sucking on cig's while downing their beverage. oops.

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Unfortunately, I'm just now seeing this link, so it is well after the fact. Here is my question on hybrids. We know they emit very little pollutants and do get great mileage. Good for the env and good for the wallet.

Here's my question, What are the environmental impacts associated with building the hybrid batteries in terms of raw materials, as well as what are the impacts associated with disposal of the hybrid batteries?

 

Hybrid Battery building environmental effects - Identical effects as making the stainless steel sink in your kitchen. The raw material of significance is nickel, a very widely mined material used for making stainless steel.

Disposal Effects - Same problem as getting rid of used gold. The battery is quite valuable and Toyota guarantees payment for any battery packs returned. It is vastly easier to get nickel from a used NiMh battery than to get the same amount from a mine.