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To: Moominoid who wrote (68236)	8/28/2005 8:45:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I haven't ruled out ocean storage. It works just fine. But for now, I prefer feeding plants and avoiding a relapse into glaciation. Contrary to popular rumour, it's a free lunch, for the plants, and therefore for the people and other beasties which feed on those plants. Big puddles on the ocean floor are no problem though the fish and stuff living in the area will have to move house. Mqurice

To: Moominoid who wrote (68236)	8/28/2005 9:07:49 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You're right, we definitely are not within the historical normal range for CO2. The more serious indicator to me is the increasing acidity of the oceans from higher levels of dissolved carbon dioxide. We are exceeding the capacity of the environment to process carbon dioxide into oxygen. If people wish to use fuel which emits less carbon, the least expensive place to do this is at the oil refinery. If we chose to do so, refineries could produce fuel with less carbon, or could even produce hydrogen alone. Of course, much of the potential energy contained in each barrel of crude oil would be forfeited as each refinery truck it to the dump in the form of unburned carbon. But this would be far less expensive than lunatic schemes to extract the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere after it is combusted. The end result would be a huge need for additional energy from forms which do not release carbon. Various forms of heavy oil, abundant but not yet in wide use, has an even larger ratio of carbon to hydrogen - as does coal. .