"Charles C." wrote:
>
> still just me wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:09:28 +0000, johannes
> > <johs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes I know. So I didn't look at any adverts. The article is full of
> >> Bo****cs. Firstly, the car is hardly Swedish, that was a thing of the
> >> past. Turbo charging a smallish petrol engine as a means of improving
> >> efficiency is now much more common these days, almost every
manufacturer
> >> have small engined turbo cars: VW TSI, Fiat T-Jet, Renault TCE;
they're
> >> all at it these days.
> >>
> >> The idea that bio-fuel is "carbon neutral" is also suspect. Yes, I
know the
> >> standard green argument that because the bio-fuel comes from plants
which
> >> absorbs CO2, it doesn't add CO2 to the atmosphere.
> >>
> >> But wait a minute...! Plants absorb CO2 from all combustion engines,
not just
> >> the bio-fuelled engines. The plants can't distinguish the source of
the CO2.
> >> The CO2 volume coming out of the exhaust of a bio-fuel engine is no
less than
> >> the CO2 from any other combustion engine. Since most engines run on
non-bio,
> >> it follows logically that most of the CO2 which is trapped by plants,
is from
> >> non-bio fuelled engines.
> >>
> >> In other words, if the bio-fuel is claimed to be carbon neutral, then
fossil
> >> fuels should be *****sed with a considerable CO2 discount, since the
plants
> >> absorbs CO2 also from that source.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, production process of bio-fuel require high energy
input; that
> >> is CO2 from one source or another.
> >
> > Bio-fuel is not the panacea once thought. Governments worldwide have
> > realized this and started to put various programs on hold or stop them
> > all together.
> >
> > Not only are the problems you cited there, but it's resulting in
> > reduced food for consumption and higher food costs to poor countries
> > as well as additional destruction of rain forests for farming
> > (furthering the CO2 problem).
>
> Yup, and I will make sure I don't use it knowingly.
>
> :-)
> Charles
I hope the spammer has learnt not to post his spam to an intelligent ng
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