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Post by Martin Blank » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:42 am

[quote="Nekra";p="393924"]blaze, thats a terrible way to look at it. we will just come up with a another way to make petrol so we will never have to change to some other cleaner fuel method, screw the fact that all the evidence points to the fact that global warming is happening and that the excessive amounts of fossil fuels and pollution we release every day is just quickening the effect.[/quote]
The TDP (thermal depolymerization plant) mentioned before actually answers this while allowing continued use of oil. The main difference is that all of the carbon that comes out of the process comes from sources that are already "in play," so to speak. It's been breathed in as carbon dioxide into plants, eaten as food by animals, and thrown into the TDP to be recycled into oil. Net gain of carbon in the environment: zero. In fact, some of what comes out of the process is carbon black (pure carbon), which can be used to make industrial diamonds or graphite or various other carbon-based products, or, if we really wanted to, buried underground, sequestered away so as to store it where it can't be part of the process for another few millenia.
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Post by peter-griffin » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:44 pm

[quote="Nekra";p="393924"]blaze, thats a terrible way to look at it. we will just come up with a another way to make petrol so we will never have to change to some other cleaner fuel method, screw the fact that all the evidence points to the fact that global warming is happening and that the excessive amounts of fossil fuels and pollution we release every day is just quickening the effect. No all that matters is that people can use there cars for pointless journeys, using for the most part highly inefficient engines.

its not your fault but that attitude, endemic of the majority of the population isn't helping.[/quote]

GO AND FIND THE FUCKING FACTS, OR GO ONTO ANOTHER FUCKING FORUM.


Fucking hell, let's just ban idiotic hippies who refuse to put up facts, and instead just do one of those "LOOK MAN THE WORLD IS GONNA END ALL SIGNS ARE POINTING TO IT!!!" and fail to actually produce any "signs." Fucking hippies. All you do is smoke weed and smell bad.

Posted Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:47 pm:

Fucking hell. I want flooding. I want death, I want warm weather, I want catastrohpe, I want instant freezeover by way of disposition of upper-stratospheric air, I want unrealistic CG-animated tidal waves, I want a cheesy Hollywood ending, I want global warming!!!! Day after tomorrow forever lol!!! yay

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Post by Salvation122 » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:35 pm

[quote="peter-griffin";p="394480"]Fucking hell. I want flooding. I want death, I want warm weather, I want catastrohpe, I want instant freezeover by way of disposition of upper-stratospheric air, I want unrealistic CG-animated tidal waves, I want a cheesy Hollywood ending, I want global warming!!!! Day after tomorrow forever lol!!! yay[/quote]
Some say a comet will fall from the sky;
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I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
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Post by Martin Blank » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:22 am

peter: Knock it off.
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Post by Salvation122 » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:07 am

On the original topic, thermodepolymerization ensures that we'll run out of oil about a week after we stop defecating. It's not really an issue, despite what environmentalists will tell you.
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Post by Calus » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:31 pm

I would also like to point out that everyone who brings up trees are growing 40% fast then we can consume them. Meaning the few post on how Oil usage is slowing tree grow is BS.
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Post by Deacon » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:00 pm

I had to read that post several times to correctly decipher it, Calus.
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Post by Calus » Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:45 pm

You should see some of the 5 page essays I have writen.
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Post by randomperson2 » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:01 pm

I would be frightened by them I do believe.
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Post by Deacon » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:53 pm

Frightened or dismayed?
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Post by randomperson2 » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:01 pm

are they mutually exclusive?
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Post by Deacon » Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:47 pm

Touché.
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Post by peter-griffin » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:39 am

martin: He posts useless, brainwashed, utterly cliché "savethe envirnoment!!! bushisevl" posts with absolutely no factual backing whatsoever, and calls people morons for not agreeing with his, you know, obviously correct view. Therefore, is it at all suprising that I respond with useless, vulgar, anti-disestablishmentarismist posts?

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Post by Imperator Severn » Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:03 am

bushisevl"


Leave me out of this.

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Post by Martin Blank » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:31 am

[quote="peter-griffin";p="395125"]Therefore, is it at all suprising that I respond with useless, vulgar, anti-disestablishmentarismist posts?[/quote]
No, and I let you do it for a while, just like I let Deacon and Bjarni snipe for a while. I'm telling you now to knock it off.
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