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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7276)	8/16/2001 8:38:21 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) of 74559

You could stick gas turbines at the well head to generate electricity and push part of the exhaust back down into the well? [since liquid CO2 is a LOT more in quantity than the hydrocarbon which produced it due to the O2 being added from the atmosphere]. It is more massive but the gas volume would be no more than the methane extracted? I don't know what happens when liquified.... No, I had just done some calculations on a piece of paper. I didn't know such things were patentable. I thought maybe you had written about it in some industry newspaper or whatever. Well OK then. Here's another one, diesel plus 3% methanol [or ethanol] plus [approximately] 3% de-ionized water Water in fuel? Do you have any factual links on acceptable wavelengths? I just remember what I did in high school biology when we did quite a bit of detail on the biochemistry of photosynthesis (UK A Levels are comparable to first year US College). From what I remember there were strong absorption peaks in the visible red and blue. What I have read since about Ozone depletion is that UV slows plant growth. People have done some tests in Patagonia I think on that.... I can imagine near UV would be fine, but the sun emits right across the spectrum. As I said given the Ozone thinning was concentrated near the Antarctic and when the sun was low it was so problematic but if you just kept going in that direction it could eventually get more widespread. Luckily now it is solved more or less. Now I understand how the organic material gets to the bottom of the ocean and gets buried, then subducted, then feeds volcanic activity and natural gas and oil deposits. It's fish and whale poop! The rest is bones and shells. Bones and shells for limestone, poop to propel volcanoes. Dead plants as well as animals and their excreta and sediment from the land all ends up in the bottom of the sea. A lot of the carbon ends up locked in calcium carbonate and some in foosil fuel. Again my geology is introductory undergrad level so not sure about firm figures on that. Volcanism is heated by radioactivity which is what keeps the interior of the Earth warm. <Deflecting incoming comets will prove easier than stopping global warming IMO.> Well it won't hurt to deal with all these risks. David

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