quattro digest, Vol 1 #3116 - more history......(NAC)

[Larry C Leung]

By the rules of conservation of energy and my engineering thermodynamics
courses, these 
things MUST be taken into account in the Earth-Sun system. Even more
bizzare, if you think 
of oil as dead dinos (okay, it's really dead plant oils, but that's no
fun to say!) it's the sun that
fed them so that they could die and them form the oil. So, were just
bringing the effects of the 
sun back to the surface a whole lot sooner than was expected in nature,
eh!

LL - NY

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:46:08 -0500 Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>
writes:
>
>> Except, Huw, this absorbed energy replaces fossil fuel energy which 
>would
>> have been liberated into the environment _in addition to_ the 
>absorbed
>> solar energy which strikes the earth's surface anyway.  The end 
>result will
>> be a lower amount of energy released on the earth's surface and 
>therefore
>> some degree of lowered temperature as a result.
>
>Very true.  I was looking at it in a sort of abstract, idealized way,
>not a "we're going to use/release the energy anyway" practical
>perspective...
>
>-- 
>Huw Powell
>
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