NEWS ALERT: $25 million prize for greenhouse gas removal

On Mar 07, 2007, at 10:57 UTC, Dave Handwerk wrote:

> There are a lot of ways to remove the various
> greenhouse gasses, and I for one, would love to win
> that prize. Unfortunately all of these methods
> require energy, energy that adds more CO2 to the
> atmosphere. All except for one that is.
>
> The one method I am referring to is plant life, that
> is green chlorophyll (or blue-green algae) plant life.

Plant life does not remove carbon from the ecosystem, except for the
tiny fraction that gets deeply buried and millions of years later turns
into fossil fuels. The vast majority of carbon in plant life gets
quickly recycled back to the atmosphere via aerobic metabolism.

> We must stop having so many
> babies, stop eating more that a tiny bit of meat, and
> above all else we must plant a lot of trees and stop
> burning carbon or hydrocarbon.

We don't need to stop having babies, we just need to expand beyond the
Earth. How much meat we eat has nothing to do with global warming.
Same for how many trees we plant (though trees are good for other
reasons).

I do agree that we need to stop using hydrocarbons for energy as much
as possible, though.

Best,
- Joe

Joe Strout -- joe@...