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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (315554)12/14/2006 10:30:47 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1584790
 
"Maybe 50 to 90% becomes CO2."

I don't think that most coal is burned in barrels. Power plants belching thick, black smoke are a thing of the past, even in 3rd world countries. A power plant that is emitting 10% soot is going to turn the surrounding area black.

"As for most conservative approach generally that being more conservative is estimating that the effect is smaller not larger."

But, if you assume a higher percentage of CO, which is a more potent greenhouse gas, well, that isn't conservative.

"I wasn't disputing them, just saying I don't know."

Easy to google. Coal production has been tracked for a very long time, albeit it is hard to find figures for global production before 1900. You have to add up the production from the various countries.
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