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- From: britzel@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (ritzel brian jay)
- Subject: Re: FEATURE: "Energy Without Oil" Executive Summary
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:07:19 GMT
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- rogerl@Ingres.COM (Roger Leuthner) writes:
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- >It doesn't matter whether carbon dioxide is emitted by the burning of oil
- >vs the burning of 'biofuels'. I suppose it is more PC to burn something
- >called a 'biofuel' instead of gasoline (when in reality the waste products
- >are similar).
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- Try thinking of the carbon incorporated in biomass as a "flow" and
- the carbon in petrofuels as a "stock" when contemplating the global
- carbon cycle...
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- Switching to biofuels may not lead to a decrease in atmospheric carbon,
- but I believe the operative word in the original post was "stabilization",
- not "decrease."
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- Brian Jay Ritzel britzel@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
- Department of Civil Engineering
- University of Illinois
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