Mike Carrel wrote:
<<but the effect of the CO2 produced will continue for perhaps thousands of
years, each day contributing
to the blockage of cooling of the earth by radiation>>
and
<<There are many tasks important to the survival and comfort of a wold
population of 10 billion, which we are approaching, which can safely be
tackled only by new energy soruces>>
I don't think even the most doomy Greens expect the problem to last that
long! Green house gas CO2 concentration "above the weather" (say 75,000
feet plus) has a rather long "half life" but it is in the decades to low
hundreds of years.
If CF and/or BLP live up to their promise, Earth could support at least a
100 billion people in comfort because many areas that are barely habitable
could be transformed (with due regard to impact on other species in the
ecosystem).
Nick Palmer
