It's still been very unseasonably warm and dry most of the past month where I live. I wonder if we are going to end up with something like Mexico's current climate here in CA
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Actually, peak oil will increase coal burning, which dumps lots of carbon into the atmosphere. However, CO2 is valuable for liquidizing the tar in oilfields so it will probably be captured for sale. Ironic, isn't it? And thanks to Genetically Modified Crop engineering, its very likely that modified crops will be developed to operate on lower water inputs (you can change their preferred internal fluid density by Selenium concentration), thus making them able to be planted in Dry cropping lands (formerly irrigated and desert lands), which will remove CO2 from the atmosphere. This won't stop the high altitude stuff, but low altitude and ground level CO2 will dramatically drop. Now, if these crops would just get developed by people who care instead of profiteers like Monsanto...
I never said it was...beepbeepDecember 10 2006, 10:20:01 UTC
but at least there is the hope that it could become less and less carbon generating over time, if alternative methods of producing electricity are developed and proven successful...whereas there isn't too much hope for the gasoline engine in that regard that I know of.
This is why all inroads to this problem must be made by way of the electrical infrastructure.
Somehow the ratio of alternative electricity to coal (and eventually gas) electricity needs to raise dramatically in the next 30 years, so that it becomes at the very least 8:2.
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See also http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/electricity.html
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Somehow the ratio of alternative electricity to coal (and eventually gas) electricity needs to raise dramatically in the next 30 years, so that it becomes at the very least 8:2.
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