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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Natural Gas?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.154108.5836@unocal.com>
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- References: <1992Dec17.175914.5248@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <ELM.92Dec19183251@sparc.berkeley.edu> <JMC.92Dec20223032@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:41:08 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec20223032@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I don't understand what this 575 Tg/yr is. If it is spontaneous
- >emission through the soil all over, it is extremely difficult
- >to capture for human use. Must we spread plastic over the whole
- >world including the oceans and then separate out the CH4?
- >Anyway 575 Tg is only 575 million tons. The U.S. used to produce
- >500 million tons of petroleum, and in 1988 produced 288 million
- >tons of natural gas. It appears, therefore, that collecting the
- >surface emissions from the entire world would not satisfy U.S.
- >domestic needs.
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- Cow burps. Put bags on both ends of the cows to collect it :-)
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