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Environment & Energy

mike_c

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1. LOL-- it's still as bad an idea in this thread as it was in the last....

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 07:59 PM

Mar 2013

What part of "burning the carbon in fossil fuels produces green house gasses" is so hard to understand? Ultimately, every carbon molecule in the original fuel stock must be accounted for. It all goes into the atmosphere, whether burned as natural gas or whether burned as ethanol. Thus hastening the day that we convert the last reserves of fossil fuels into green house gasses.

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Coskata switches focus to Ethanol from natural gas [View all] Bill USA Mar 2013 OP

LOL-- it's still as bad an idea in this thread as it was in the last.... mike_c Mar 2013 #1

betting on an uninterrupted supply of oil for the next 20-30 years are you? I wish I could laugh! Bill USA Mar 2013 #2

if this move was to limit work on renewables it would be different. Progress on renewables is not Bill USA Mar 2013 #3

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