[Vwdiesel] Noicy Rabbit turbo ? ---(Loren you might or might not
be correct)
Libbybapa at wmconnect.com
Libbybapa at wmconnect.com
Mon Feb 21 11:10:17 EST 2005
In a message dated 2/21/05 6:52:39 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
MarkRShirley at eaton.com writes:
> CO2 control and the Kyoto treaty was a thinly veiled attempt to siphon money
> out of the US economy and distribute to other countries. Since every living
> thing on earth produces the stuff, it's ridiculous to try and control it.
>
All plant matter is made by taking co2 and water and combining them into
hydrocarbons through photosythesis. It is true that one phase of photosythesis
produces co2 and absorbs o2, but the other phase of producing o2 and absorbing
co2 is far greater. The net result of plants growing is the production of
hydrocarbons and the absorption of co2 and water. Plants do not produce (net) co2
they fix it into hydrocarbon, to say that they do is ridiculous. It would be
like saying that humans absorb water. Completely absurd.
As Loren mentioned, ocean life is perhaps a better sink for co2 than forests.
One concern is that a liquids capacity to dissolve co2 is decreased
dramatically as the temperature is increased. My most major hope is that increased
temperature will cause oceanic life to increase co2 absorbing ability. That has
not been demonstrated.
The negative effect of the destruction of rainforests is made far more
dramatic as that land mass is used for cattle grazing. The net result is that a
large co2 sink is removed and replaced with a greenhouse gas producer. Cattle
are large producers of co2 and more importantly methane and nitric oxide. It's
a quadruple whammy. When you then add to the mix the practice of digging up
as much hydrocarbon matter as possible and reducing that to water and co2 the
whole thing gets really questionable. To use fuels which are produced by
carbon absorption (biofuels) is not questionable. It is a complete cycle.
Feasibly, the only byproduct being usable energy and the only thing consumed being
solar energy (in the initial photosythetic process).
VW diesels are great. They are economical, reliable and when run on biofuels
are part of responsible living. :-) Who titled this as Off Topic?
I do not know what the end result will be.
Andrew
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