Exactly my point Keith; Eventually when the rest of the plant decomposes the CO2 finds its way back to the atmosphere. The earth found a way to reduce atmospheric CO2 and it took her many millions of years to do it. We in our wisdom have found a way to undo her work in a few decades! We are stuck with climate change unless we find an equally efficient method of locking up CO2 and by this I don't mean pumping it into underground caverns or defunct oil wells. The earth has in effect been to us as a wound up spring storing up the solar energy from millions of years in concentrated forms, oil being only one of them. We have been releasing the spring rather quickly and since energy is neither created nor destroyed we find we are in effect winding other springs in the process, springs which have a much shorter time constant like tornadoes and hurricanes. Perhaps it is time we took a hint from nature. Plants are ingenious agents of solar energy conversion and storage. I hate the arrogance we have in placing so much faith in our stupid science. Look where we have come. We are not smart. With brute force and ignorance working at the marco level we have done this carnage and now in our ifinite wisdom we want to start meddling at the nano and genetic level to show how clever we are! Perhaps it's time we just took a breather and took a look at the example eveloution has worked out and maybe instead of being so bold we could humble ourselves and just copy the master's work.
Sorry for venting....I feel (only) a little better now. Joe Keith Addison wrote: snip > > But the reduction is only temporary, in the end it all returns to the > atmosphere anyway -- see "[Biofuel] CO2 emissions" for a good > explanation from Tom Kelly: > http://snipurl.com/rmgo > Sat Jun 10 2006 > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
