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To: Eric who wrote (23810)	10/19/2010 5:28:57 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86355

Now if you want to talk about albido impress me. It's "albedo"....and I did in a subsequent message. It eventually basically all gets converted to heat Jorj. Now if you want to talk about albido impress me. Take some basic physics classes........... so, you are saying that all that heat energy from the sun that gets converted to electrical energy than then powers our TV's and laptops and CFLs (that everyone loves because they emit less heat), is all then converted back to heat energy. Which in theory we could then take to power our TVs, laptops and CFLs which would then all turn back into heat energy that we could then use to power our TVs, laptops and CFLs...etc... sounds a little like a perpetual motion machine to me. And yes, I know that my TV and laptop and CFLs emit heat. But maybe I'm wrong on this....since I have pathetically never taken a basic physics class, but 100% heat energy in does not mean 100% heat energy out....right? You are the expert here, so you tell me if my assumption is wrong there. When you burn fossil fuels your dumping all of that stored solar energy that took 50 million plus years into the environment in less than 200 years. It's a very, very big number my friend. OMG! it's the 135 million years worth of solar energy that we have to worry about now too? (carboniferous period was about 65 million years in duration and the Cretaceous was about 70million years in duration). It's not the CO2 that has the greenhouse effect that is warming up our environment? 135 million years worth of solar energy dumped into our atmosphere in 200 years and all we've been able to pull off is less than 1C? Boy, you are right. Either your assertion there is full of...well, hot air. Or I really don't get this physics thing. Or maybe both.