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Worms was: Pellet stove
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| Harry Chickpea 2005-09-22, 2:21 pm |
| Goedjn <prose@mail.uri.edu> wrote:
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>Except that it's not true. When you release CO2 into the air,
>it doesn't matter where it CAME from. it only matters where
>it would have gone if you hadn't burned it.
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>So the open question is whether growing corn for fuel
>REMOVES more carbon from the air than would have been
>removed had you not grown corn for fuel.
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>If you burn one ton of carbon in the form of dead dinosaurs,
>that puts one ton of carbon in the air, if you burn one
>ton of carbon in the form of corn-oil, that ALSO puts one
>tone of carbon in the air. If you grow a ton-s worth
>of carbon-bearing corn, and then burn it. The net effect
>on the atmosphere is zero. If you grow one ton's worth
>of carbon bearing corn and DON'T burn it, the net effect
>is minus one ton. How much carbon is in the
>parts of the corn that you don't burn? How much
>carbon is in whatever would be growing there if you
>weren't growing fuel-corn?
That last staement spurs me to a response.
Oddly enough, there may be a non-human culprit that bears some
responsibility for increasing carbon levels. I was surprised to find
that the common earthworm is not indiginous to north america, but was
imported by the europeans. While earthworms do aerate the soil, they
are also implicated in shinking the layers of detrius called "duff"
that carpets forest lands. That duff is a huge carbon sink that is
being lost.
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| Duane Bozarth 2005-09-22, 2:21 pm |
| Harry Chickpea wrote:
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> Oddly enough, there may be a non-human culprit that bears some
> responsibility for increasing carbon levels. I was surprised to find
> that the common earthworm is not indiginous to north america, but was
> imported by the europeans. While earthworms do aerate the soil, they
> are also implicated in shinking the layers of detrius called "duff"
> that carpets forest lands. That duff is a huge carbon sink that is
> being lost.
Reference?
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| Larry Caldwell 2005-09-22, 2:21 pm |
| In article <4333d9a5.13102047@localhost>, hchickpeaREMOVEME@hotmail.com
(Harry Chickpea) says...
> I was surprised to find
> that the common earthworm is not indiginous to north america, but was
> imported by the europeans.
Perhaps one species was imported, but there are several earthworm
species that are native to North America.
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