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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (22430)	7/23/2008 5:08:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Mr Net, would you like to calculate how many barrels of limestone that is? <Australia's Nullarbor Plain would be a prime location for this process, as it has 10 000km3 of limestone and soaks up roughly 20MJ/m2 of solar irradiation every day.'> As I have ranted from time to time, the crazy suicidal planet on which we live is NOT in balance and has been stripping carbon from the ecosphere for a very long time, the Oz limestone being just one more heap of the stuff. You will find that the amount of carbon stored in that limestone is a LOT. The amount of carbon humans are digging up and recycling is relatively small. Gaia has been unsustainably burying carbon. Hooray for humans recovering it. Sustainability is now recognized as vital. Gaia has been suicidally unsustainable. Now, you understand that digging up limestone is not all bad. You might like to calculate Nullarbor insolation too and compare it with energy produced by humans from oil, methane, coal and bituminous stuff. You'll find the sun puts out a LOT of energy. Mqurice