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, 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. - Bill Coloribus gustibus non disputatum Absofrigginlootly! :-) And guess what? It'd also drastically improve global air quality... -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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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 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
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I am not in the lab anymore.
up to this point mother nature has been fooling with the light reaction center in plants that soak up the photon of energy and use it to break water (water is typically broken by running electricity thru a platinum wire). Chlorophyll is the best (so far) at doing this, but uses only blue and red light. It is the biotech people will start fooling with the reaction centers of chloroplasts to stick them into a synthetic membrane and/or make a better photon grabber. Maybe layer several different reaction centers that absorb across the whole spectrum so they are more efficient. hook this up with some extremely high efficiency lights over the membranes (light the flashlights that have a little generator in them) and no need for solar light. maybe have the choice of cranking it up to get it started, or, a good battery. Ingrid Omelet wrote: So invent the process and make it profitable. You could be the next multi-billionaire... It really is not that hard to make Hydrogen. The trick is getting people to use it as a fuel, make it cost effective, and SAFE. In article , wrote: the problem is, all carbon based fuels release CO2 when burned. what we need is to break the hydrogen oxygen bond in water and then burn the hydrogen back to water. plants do this, they use solar energy to knock the hydrogen off the water, use the energy of the electrons to form a covalent bond (organic) that stores the energy (using CO2). That is really clean energy. Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan |
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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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List at http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/ sign up: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...s=Group+lookup www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I receive no compensation for running the Puregold list or Puregold website. I do not run nor receive any money from the ads at the old Puregold site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zone 5 next to Lake Michigan - Bill Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly) |
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:52:36 -0500, Omelet
wrote: So invent the process and make it profitable. You could be the next multi-billionaire... I know you may be kidding, but the problem IS money. There is no reason why gas is costing what it does. Oil tycoons made record profits the last three years in a row. It's disgusting, along with the greed and every putrid thing about it, the desire for it, the attachment to it,etc. |
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In article ,
jangchub wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:52:36 -0500, Omelet wrote: So invent the process and make it profitable. You could be the next multi-billionaire... I know you may be kidding, but the problem IS money. Only half-way. It really IS easy to make Hydrogen. It's one of the most abundant elements in the universe. The oil companies have a stranglehold on the economy. They don't WANT alternative energy and he who has the gold makes the rules. :-( There is no reason why gas is costing what it does. Oil tycoons made record profits the last three years in a row. Both true. It's disgusting, along with the greed and every putrid thing about it, the desire for it, the attachment to it,etc. You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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Omelet expounded:
You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) Yep. I think there's lots of us, but the powers-that-be don't want to hear us ( -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
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"Ann" wrote in message ... Omelet expounded: You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) Yep. I think there's lots of us, but the powers-that-be don't want to hear us ( -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** AMEN! |
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In article ,
Ann wrote: Omelet expounded: You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) Yep. I think there's lots of us, but the powers-that-be don't want to hear us ( They would if we could (somehow) quit buying gasoline, but how many of us can do that? -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:17:39 -0500, Omelet
You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) I know! |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:58:50 -0400, Ann wrote:
Omelet expounded: You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) Yep. I think there's lots of us, but the powers-that-be don't want to hear us ( There are a LOT more of us now than ever before. AT one time, even in this newsgroup we were the minority. It is wonderful to see American's finally waking up to the administration full of theft and lies. |
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In article ,
Omelet wrote: In article , jangchub wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:52:36 -0500, Omelet wrote: So invent the process and make it profitable. You could be the next multi-billionaire... I know you may be kidding, but the problem IS money. Only half-way. It really IS easy to make Hydrogen. It's one of the most abundant elements in the universe. The oil companies have a stranglehold on the economy. They don't WANT alternative energy and he who has the gold makes the rules. :-( There is no reason why gas is costing what it does. Oil tycoons made record profits the last three years in a row. Both true. It's disgusting, along with the greed and every putrid thing about it, the desire for it, the attachment to it,etc. You are preachin' to the choir. ;-) Two things though; (1) remember the Hindenberg (boom!) and, (2) the First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed (beware of little black boxes). It seems that electric motors fueled by wind, water, Sun (and Earth bound fusion) and, perhaps conventional, central, power plants where CO2 can be scrubbed from the smoke stack are the answer. Personally, I don't need to go from 0 mph to 60 mph in 4 sec. So there may be some adaptations we need to make but I think we can live with that. - Bill(y) Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly) |
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