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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 2738826" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>Yet the oxygen levels are not decreasing. All this "extra" carbon dioxide should be consuming twice as much oxygen than carbon that is being oxidized. I don't see it happening. Whether we burn trees or peat moss or swamp gas, we generate energy for heat and manufacturing processes, yet our oxygen levels remain constant. Switching from wood to fossil fuels hasn't changed our energy production per capita for a given time period. We simply switched fuels.</p><p></p><p>Nature recycles it. </p><p></p><p>And, what about all the water produced from burning fossil fuels? Take gasoline for instance. It is basically octane - eight carbon atoms and eighteen hydrogen atoms. Burning one molecule of octane consumes 25 atoms of oxygen. You get 8 molecules of carbon dioxide and nine molecules of water. Why aren't we drowning? Photosynthesis takes care of it all. Water and carbon dioxide are absorbed by plants and both are broken down through photosynthesis with energy from the sun into free oxygen and all manner of hydrocarbons - some of which we eat! Some of it becomes the wood fibers we build our homes out of. Some of it becomes nectar and pollen that the bees make honey out of. It goes on and on.</p><p></p><p>If you want to shut that process down, you'd better come up with something akin to Soylent Green to feed the masses - otherwise, you'll have riots on your hands. </p><p></p><p>Woody</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 2738826, member: 745"] Yet the oxygen levels are not decreasing. All this "extra" carbon dioxide should be consuming twice as much oxygen than carbon that is being oxidized. I don't see it happening. Whether we burn trees or peat moss or swamp gas, we generate energy for heat and manufacturing processes, yet our oxygen levels remain constant. Switching from wood to fossil fuels hasn't changed our energy production per capita for a given time period. We simply switched fuels. Nature recycles it. And, what about all the water produced from burning fossil fuels? Take gasoline for instance. It is basically octane - eight carbon atoms and eighteen hydrogen atoms. Burning one molecule of octane consumes 25 atoms of oxygen. You get 8 molecules of carbon dioxide and nine molecules of water. Why aren't we drowning? Photosynthesis takes care of it all. Water and carbon dioxide are absorbed by plants and both are broken down through photosynthesis with energy from the sun into free oxygen and all manner of hydrocarbons - some of which we eat! Some of it becomes the wood fibers we build our homes out of. Some of it becomes nectar and pollen that the bees make honey out of. It goes on and on. If you want to shut that process down, you'd better come up with something akin to Soylent Green to feed the masses - otherwise, you'll have riots on your hands. Woody [/QUOTE]
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