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Bill Rose · 01-06-2007, 07:00 PM posted to rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible

In article ,
wrote:

the algae and other plants that sucked up all the CO2, died and were buried
is what
made the planet climates what they are now. There are already huge prizes
being
offered for methods of sequestering CO2, essentially, CO2 scrubbers that
remove CO2
from the air (CO2 is soluble in water), form a chemical reaction that removes
it from
the water and then inject it back into those empty oil wells or whatever.
Limestone
is calcium and magnesium carbonates, so it could also be used to make
limestone
bricks to construct houses? problem is acid dissolves limestone.

and do it using non-polluting energy!!! like the sun or wind. Ingrid

Yeah. You are right. But "bottom line" people will see that this costs
them money. They will be dragged to environmentalism, kicking and
screaming. Countries that don't clean-up will get more energy per pound
(gallon, whatever), which will put us at a disadvantage (so the spin
will go). The biggest bang for our buck that we can get RIGHT NOW is
conservation. The $10,000,000 the the knuckle head at 1600 Pennsylvania
Ave. wants (and sadly, so does Obama) to put into energy savings from
ethanol (which will be grown with petroleum) can be had for $3,000,000
and change by conservation.

The thing with fission power is (besides the massive problem of it's
waste, even in fast breeders) is that workers exposed to radiation pass
their injuries on to the following generations. If a coal miner gets
black lung, the injury dies with him. I know. It's a pretty cold
calculus.

If we could reduce CO2 and wait 30 years, there should be fusion
reactors which will be infinitely safer than coal or fission.

In the meantime conservation, water power (including tidal), wind power
and, photovoltaic could buy us time.

Bill Rose wrote:
Not to put too fine a point on it, but fossil fuel has been out of the
carbon cycle for a long time and is being reintroduced. Wood burned from
last year though is just going around and around in the carbon cycle. We
need to stop burning fossil fuel.

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