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Originally posted by Sundancer
reply to post by ashnomadonte
I have ta say... That's a pretty awesome looking bike even if it does still have it's training wheels
Originally posted by ashnomadonte
Can you imagine!?! I wonder if big oil will stifle this. Could this mean lower gas if you can just produce the oil from whatever.
The idea of endless oil might be a bane to environmentalists and high-stakes oil production fields, such as Canada's oil sands, but most of the world's population will thrill to the idea that they will not have to give up their beloved automobiles.
I for one was not looking forward to having to bike to work
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Originally posted by ashnomadonte
reply to post by Thiaoouba Prophecy
can you provide a link to that I would love to read it! not a poke at you I really want to read it.
Originally posted by 30_seconds
If carbon dioxide is a global pollutant, and a dangerous contributor to "global warming" do not forget that all of that carbon you find in oil came from the atmosphere to begin with. If the earth was okay before this CO2 became oil, it will be okay if the oil becomes CO2.
Only about 0.03 percent of the Earth's atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide (nitrogen, oxygen, and argon constitute about 78 percent, 20 percent, and 0.93 percent of the atmosphere, respectively)
At concentrations of from 2,500 ppm to 5,000 ppm carbon dioxide can cause headaches. At extremely high levels of 100,000 ppm (10 percent) people lose consciousness in ten minutes, and at 200,000 ppm (20 percent) CO2 causes partial or complete closure of the glottis.
Earliest atmosphere
The outgassings of the Earth were stripped away by solar wind early in the history of the planet until a steady state was established, the first atmosphere. Based on today's volcanic evidence, this atmosphere would have contained 80% water vapor, 10% carbon dioxide, 5 to 7% hydrogen sulfide, and smaller amounts of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, methane and inert gases.