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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
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- Subject: Re: Natural Gas?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233732.24874@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:37:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.001902.13770@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <JMC.92Dec16171509@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <ELM.92Dec16182200@terrorism.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <ELM.92Dec16182200@terrorism.berkeley.edu> elm@cs.berkeley.edu writes:
- >In article <JMC.92Dec16171509@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- >=>In contrast to oil, natural gas is in good supply in the U.S.
-
- >As anyone who's eaten burritos or visited their local landfill or
- >swamp can tell you, methane is very easy to generate. All you need is
- >bacteria or chemical processes that break down more complex carbon
- >compounds into methane. You can generate methane from organic waste
- >-- CH4 is a large component of swamp gas and the smelly stuff from
- >landfills (though methane is odorless).
-
- >In other words, we needn't *ever* run out of it, as long as we can use
- >generated methane rather than mined methane.
-
- Not true. I did a paper on this back in highschool. In order to
- provide a significant percentage of US energy needs you would need
- whole farms devoted to nothing but producing biomass for methane
- productions. Straight solar is simpler, cheaper, and less polluting.
-
- Mike
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