Re: Shell's 100-RON fuel - what actually is it?

Malt_Hound > wrote:
> th wrote:
> 
>> True, but as the fuel is mostly produced from plants absorbing CO2 the 
>> net effect is almost zero. Compare with gasoline that uses a source 
>> where the CO2 from the atmosphere was stored millions of years ago and 
>> no CO2 is pumped back into the earth.
>>
> <devil's advocate>
> 
> So where do you suppose that the carbon came from in that plant-life all

> those millions of years ago, which eventually became the fossil fuel?
> 
> Hmmm....  It's still a "balanced" equation.
> 
> </devil's advocate>
> 
 From the air of course. However, burning gasoline requires that mankind 
starts growing more forests to return the carbon back to solid form. And 
extending the forests is not really what we are doing right now. . .

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th