As a pragmatist, when someone says we should eliminate man-made earth and air pollution because it causes global warming I ask them "how.....".
How do we persuade the power companies that have built, or are building, something like 30 "dirty" coal-fired power plants in the U.S. over the past several years to tear down those plants or install expensive scrubbers? How do we persuade the Chinese to do the same? How do we persuade worldwide industry to spend trillions of dollars in the prevention of their pollution? How do we persuade the commercial transportation industry and auto industry to switch to non-polluting sources of energy? ....and on and on. Obviously no one has conclusive proof one way or the other about global warming and its causes, so the first thing to do is to determine how its elimination can be accomplished if that is proven to become necessary. Otherwise the discussion is moot. Gerry.....who has solved his own pollution problems with charcoal and HEPA filters >G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> writes: >> Comparison with solar methods? Not an apples to apples comparison. Two >> different sides of the "alternate energy" basket. Solar to electric power >> vs Bio-Diesel to BTU doesn't translate. [or maybe I slept through that >> class in college] > > I think in a sense that the vegetable/plant material gets it's energy > from the sun, you can view Bio-Diesel as an "indirect" solar fuel. But > in that sense almost everything is, except nuclear and geothermal. > Allan > 1983 300D > 1979 300SD Date: 12/06/11 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
