Date:         Sat, 15 May 2004 10:09:22 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
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The government must be doing a pretty good job of suppressing news of
the increase in major eruptions that would lead to the tremendous
increase in CO2 over the last century. If you see it charted against
historic levels as it was in National Geographic recently, the ups and
downs through various past ice ages look like a flat line compared to
the spike we're in now. Hmmm... I smell lava!

Jim

On May 15, 2004, at 9:53 AM, tmiller wrote:

> Vanagons on veggie oil don't increase the CO2 in our air.  I can't wait
> for Al Gore to figure out a way to put catalytic converters on
> volcano's.  One eruption puts out more green house gases than all the
> tailpipes have since they were invented!  We have such a miniscule
> impact on our planet that it isn't funny.  Not that we should go out of
> our way to poison ourselves mind you.  It's just that the government is
> always looking for ways to control us in what we do and how we act.
> TEMiller
>
> Steve Delanty wrote:
>
>> At 05:15 AM 5/15/2004, Al Knoll wrote:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>> Seems to me the global war-ming is caused by excess greenhouse gases,
>>> CO2
>>> being the most significant.  Diesel cycle engines produce CO2 as an
>>> exhaust
>>> component in approximately the same quantity per stroke regardless of
>>> the
>>> fuel source D1,D2, McDooDoo or Chik-fil-a or soybean oil.  I fail to
>>> understand (my usual excuse) how using "organic" "free range" "home
>>> grown"
>>> oil sources would significantly affect the CO2 fraction of the
>>> exhaust gas.
>>>
>>> pensioner
>>
>>
>> -----------------
>> When plants grow, they remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store
>> it in the plant tissues. When you burn veggie oil, that same CO2 is
>> released back into the air. It's a cycle, with the same CO2 being used
>> by the plants and released over and over.
>> The net quantity of atmospheric CO2 doesn't increase.
>>
>> When you burn petroleum, you are releasing millions of years of
>> previously stored CO2  into the atmosphere, increasing the total
>> quantity of CO2 in the air...
>>
>>
>> Steve
>> EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"
>