At 05:15 AM 5/15/2004, Al Knoll wrote: ><snip> >Seems to me the global war-ming is caused by excess greenhouse gases, CO2 >being the most significant. Diesel cycle engines produce CO2 as an exhaust >component in approximately the same quantity per stroke regardless of the >fuel source D1,D2, McDooDoo or Chik-fil-a or soybean oil. I fail to >understand (my usual excuse) how using "organic" "free range" "home grown" >oil sources would significantly affect the CO2 fraction of the exhaust gas. > >pensioner ----------------- When plants grow, they remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the plant tissues. When you burn veggie oil, that same CO2 is released back into the air. It's a cycle, with the same CO2 being used by the plants and released over and over. The net quantity of atmospheric CO2 doesn't increase. When you burn petroleum, you are releasing millions of years of previously stored CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the total quantity of CO2 in the air...
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