Re: Oil Junkie Methadone

[Lawrence Harris <lharris@HEALTHVISION.COM>]

:-)

How about if we farm the plankton bloom and extract the carbon and iron,
we
can build light carbon fiber bodies for our cars and put the iron back
to feed
the next crop of plankton.

1) oil + car-1 -> CO2
2) CO2 + iron -> plankton
3) plankton + energy -> C2 + iron + 2O2
4) C2 + energy -> cars-2

repeat as the need for cars requires.

:-)

Lawrence Harris
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> ----------
> From:         MR MITCHELL L OATES[SMTP:RRKR45A@PRODIGY.COM]
> Reply To:     Electric Vehicle Discussion List
> Sent:         27-Nov-97 5:28 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list EV
> Subject:      Oil Junkie Methadone
>
>      Was watching the Discovery Magazine program on the Discovery
> Channel
> last night. Part of the program was on a couple of new methods called
> geo-engine
>  ering.
>      Basically, the scientists working on this have come to the
> conclusion
> that the world as a whole is never going to curb it's use of oil and
> other
> greenhouse gas emitting fuels. Since we've managed to change the
> environment by accident, perhaps by acting on purpose we can offset
> the
> damage caused by the use of the above fuels.
>      The first idea was simple, plant enough trees to offset the
> increased
> amount of carbon we're pumping into the atmosphere. This would work,
> only
> problem was you would have to cover an area the size of Austrailia
> with a
> dense forest. And that would only cover the present amount of
> emissions,
> any increase would require a corresponding increase in the amount of
> acreage in trees.
>      The second idea was seeding areas of the ocean with
> pharmaceutical
> grade iron to promote the growth of plankton to absorb carbon out of
> the
> environment. This was tested on a small scale and promoted a 30 fold
> increase in the plankton population in the treated area. Only problem
> is,
> to reduce the average world temperature by 1/2 degree C, you would
> have to
> dump 30 million tons per year of iron into the oceans, and once the
> plankton dies they release the carbon in them back to the environment,
> so
> this would have to be an ongoing effort.
>      One of the scientists said that the best method would be to break
> the
> cycle of oil addiction and reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses.
> He
> said the above two methods were only "better than nothing" and would
> be
> equivalent to giving methadone to a junkie.
>
>                                               Mitch Oates
> Oil Junkie Methadone
>
RE: Oil Junkie Methadone