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

Malt_Hound, > wrote:

> th wrote:
> > 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. . .
> >
>
> So then, the real problem is lack of forests, not the burning of fossil
> fuels?

That's certainly one way of looking at it !

Graham