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Replying to: larsb (Jul 16, 2008 2:14 pm) |
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Death in the deep: Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction link title So what was "WRONG" with ..."Palm trees grew in what would be Alaska, large reptiles roamed in northern Canada and the ice-free Arctic Ocean warmed to the equivalent of a tepid swimming pool."...
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 16, 2008 1:49 pm) This is perfect. I've read about this before. All we need to do is collect all that excess CO2 that people are making that some think is causing climate change. Then we put the CO2 into the mine to put out the fire. Just seal off all the entrances. The CO2 is heavier than air so pour it in one opening and it settles and voila, no oxygen because the CO2 has filled the mine! And here Battelle is spending good public grant money for a study of how to compress CO2 into a rock structure underground to get rid of a gas causing global warming (some think). Of course the CO2 is going to migrate through the rock and escape into the ground water and carbonate it.. Fizzy water out the tap, anyone? What's even funnier is the CO2 they're trying to get rid of is from a greenies dream process of making ethanol!!! The green ethanol produces a side product that's causing global warming (some think). 
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 16, 2008 3:53 pm) Bulldoze those farming for the above: like : Burgundy? Champage? Napa Valley? etc etc etc??? |
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Replying to: ruking1 (Jul 16, 2008 4:03 pm) And the cattle giving meat and milk emit, hold on to your hat, both CO2 and CH4 (methane)!!!   
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 16, 2008 4:05 pm) |
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Replying to: ruking1 (Jul 16, 2008 3:34 pm) He should have asked Al Gore, he has all the answers. Heck they gave him some kind of funky award because he knows SO much about Global Warming. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 16, 2008 4:05 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (Jul 16, 2008 8:55 am) I speculate that a HST line from Portland to Miami would take about 7 hours. This would not be enough to beat the plane on those destinations, but would be still competitive in intermediate city to city transport. There are maybe 30 millions people living along such a corridor. It may cost 100 to 150 billion USD. It would certainly make sense in the long term, but I don't expect private investors to have that kind of money.
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Replying to: vchiu (Jul 16, 2008 5:40 pm) Neither does the US government. We are $9.5 TRILLION in debt and a big chunk of our current budget of $3 trillion will add to that debt. Maybe after we pay that down a few trillion we think about HST. You will have to get through Congress. Each Senator has a state that wants something. You spend $100 billion on one state the other 49 want their share. That would be about $5 trillion in one bill to get a HST from DC to Miami or where ever. When the $25 billion was allocated in 1956 we had a balanced budget we were not adding to the National Debt. Our President was impressed with the German Autobahn and wanted US to have that kind of system across the USA. It was to be for every state at the time. What you are proposing will only benefit very small segments of the population. That is hard to get through Congress that wants to please the whole USA.
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