On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 12:22:42AM +0100, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > I could even imagine that we burn so much fossil fuels that there will be > regions where we have a lack of Oxygen. Earth was like this many million years > ago. >
That might take a few centuries. There's several hundred years of known coal reserves at current rates of consumption. It is sobering to think that all Oxygen in the air is of biogenic origin (some 22% of the air) and that at some point in the past, that oxygen was bound up in carbon dioxide. If we burnt all the carbon buried in the ground, we'd have no oxygen left. Clearly, we have to leave most of the fossil fuel in the ground. And we have good reasons to start moving away from using it today. Opening up new mega-coal mines like our current Australian Government is keen on doing, is simply madness. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
