To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7338 ) 8/17/2001 8:55:29 PM From: Moominoid Respond to I agree with all below except that there is no real problem :) Just not sure how big he prob is.David, that's true, for the USA, but as a solution to alleged greenhouse warming, it's a minor contributor at best. All contributions are welcome of course. Doing what with the carbon? Perhaps burning it in power stations using oxygen rather than air, then compressing the carbon dioxide and pouring it 400 metres under the ocean or dissolving it. I mentioned that my ex-boss did work on hydrogen as a mobile fuel in the early 1970s with Shell. He thought it was a good idea. Yes, the gases from volcanoes, which there is a lot of, come from the subducted material. When you subduct water, radiolarian ooze and the other stuff on the floor of the ocean, you are taking down hydrocarbons, water, bones and things which settle on the ocean floor. When those are super-compressed, super-heated, then let out a volcanic vent, it is quite a chemical reactor, which mixes with oxygen from the air and "BANG". The gases in pumice are not from air. They are the liquids in the magma which changed to gas as the pressure came off as it flew up the vent and into the atmosphere. That's my theory anyway.
