Where Football Explains the World Tackles by Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton

Author:Alex Bellos & Ben Lyttleton [Bellos, Alex & Lyttleton, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406387414
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd.
Published: 2018-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

WORKSHEET 5: POLLUTION

Most cars use petrol, which, as well as pumping out carbon dioxide, also release dangerous chemicals into the air that can cause breathing problems in humans. This is known as air pollution.

In the last few years, car companies have been designing cars that run on electricity, which creates no exhaust fumes at all. Some drivers already using electric cars are … the players of Forest Green Rovers, after a company gave each of them an electric car for six months.

Electric cars are still more expensive than petrol cars, so less people drive them, but it is likely that this will change in the next ten years or so. In the near future, it’s predicted that most cars will be fume-free.

Forest Green Rovers aren’t just petrol-free on the road, but on the pitch too. They use a self-driving lawnmower that uses GPS to work out where it’s going. It doesn’t run on petrol, like many stadium lawnmowers do, but instead on solar-powered electricity. If it bumps into an object, it will back up and mow somewhere else. It takes three days to mow the whole pitch and it will text the grounds team if it gets into trouble. We hope it uses an e-mow-ji!

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