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Old 07-18-2008, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Albemarle, NC
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Or not. But they did manage to find a breakthrough.

Chemical breakthrough turns sawdust into biofuel - tech - 18 July 2008 - New Scientist Tech
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Old 07-18-2008, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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This would be great if the price of sawdust hadn't skyrocketed in the last few months.

Prince George Citizen - Sawdust prices soar as supply dwindles with housing downturn
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Old 07-18-2008, 02:15 PM
 
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Doesn't saw dust come from trees? So if we use trees, we kill the planet by reducing the Co2 they process and there by increase the levels of Co2 through that action! OMG we would be killing the planet!!!!! This is terrible! /sarcasm
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Old 07-18-2008, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Aren't scientists and knowledge evil though?
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Old 07-18-2008, 02:35 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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Doesn't saw dust come from trees? So if we use trees, we kill the planet by reducing the Co2 they process and there by increase the levels of Co2 through that action! OMG we would be killing the planet!!!!! This is terrible! /sarcasm
Technically burning wood is carbon neutral because it doesn't emit more CO2 burning than it does decomposing. Obviously clear cutting and not replanting would be bad but loggers would have to be foolish to do that anyways...
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Old 07-18-2008, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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There is a better way...

Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's Newest Alternative Energy Source - Popular Mechanics
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Old 07-18-2008, 03:13 PM
 
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Technically burning wood is carbon neutral because it doesn't emit more CO2 burning than it does decomposing. Obviously clear cutting and not replanting would be bad but loggers would have to be foolish to do that anyways...
My point was that they would have to use wood as the source. Cutting the wood would take away from the level of Co2 reduction trees provide (even if you replanted as small trees can not process the amount larger ones can). The joke is that they have to take away the very thing that is helping reduce our terrible output and destruction of the world.

I mean, we are looking at the minute details here aren't we? That is, if we look at mans output of Co2 compared to the natural phenomenons we account for such an insignificant amount. So if we are picking hairs, we have to pick them here as well do we not? If not, then what the heck are we complaining about in terms of our Co2 contributions?
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