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How about if I use my own form of carbon offset? E.g. if I drive our
Honda Civic or my motorcycle, then I can go 75mph; but if I drive my V8,
I stick to 55mph?
Do I qualify as a non-posturing non-demagogue? Or, perhaps at least a
posturing
Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the electricity
for your car from one of those zero-emission power stations we keep hoping
for.
R
On 8/14/07, Marcus G. Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
How about if I use my own form of carbon offset?
Robert Holmes wrote:
Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the
electricity for your car from one of those zero-emission power
stations we keep hoping for.
Like this one? It's been around a while. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hoover_dam_from_air_corrected.jpg
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Robert Holmes wrote:
Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the
electricity for your car from one of those zero-emission power stations
we keep hoping for.
You purposefully _choose_ to mis-interpret Marcus' words? Your
my bad, partially:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046
In a study to be published in /Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
for Global Change/, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse
effect of emissions from the Curuá-Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more
than
So I take it you've not been following the literature on levels of CO2 and
methane emissions from hydroelectric plants? (
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046 for example). There's an
enormous pulse in greenhouse gases when the reservoir is flooded and trees
and vegetation rot. In some
Robert Holmes wrote:
There's an enormous pulse in greenhouse gases when the reservoir is
flooded and trees and vegetation rot. In some cases this represents
more lifetime emissions than if you'd been running an oil or gas plant.
I wonder in how many cases? Seems like it would greatly depend
Hmm, however big the pulse is, it needs to be compared to the lifetime
of the dam, and that could be in centuries..
So for one thing 1) the damage has been done, and 2) any decay of
vegetation that grows and dies as the water goes up and down, will be
matched to some extent by the CO2
