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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I believe I read just yesterday that there is a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide released by composting.

I don’t know what they are going to do with that one.


2 posted on 04/15/2011 10:54:20 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero

I read yesterday that running the lights for growing marijuana indoors also accounts for a large amount of carbon dioxide released. I am pretty much tired of hearing from the green idiots, they all suck.


7 posted on 04/15/2011 10:57:34 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Persevero

On the topic of ice...how do they make that soft ice that you get at the hospital or at Sonics?


17 posted on 04/15/2011 11:04:15 AM PDT by Pure Country (“I’ve noticed that every person that is for abortion has already been born.” -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Persevero
I believe I read just yesterday that there is a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide released by composting.

Well, then I am in big trouble. If that is a fact, what are the EV nuts going to do about natural composting?

37 posted on 04/15/2011 11:32:48 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (TX and MI - When the going gets tough, the dims run and hide.)
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To: Persevero

“I believe I read just yesterday that there is a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide released by composting. I don’t know what they are going to do with that one.”

I LOVE IT! EnviroWeenies annoy the cr@p outta me, LOL!


50 posted on 04/15/2011 12:53:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Persevero
there is a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide released by composting.

True but irrelevant.

Composting is merely an acceleration of natural decay processes. Everything organic eventually either decays or burns. In either case the carbon in it was recently (usually last year or two) in the air previously and was removed from the air as the vegetation grew.

Composting or burning merely returns this carbon to the atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle. There is zero increase in the amount of carbon in the system.

Burning fossil fuels, OTOH, increases the amount of carbon in the system by adding carbon from plants that grew millions of years ago. A net increase means the % of CO2 goes up.

69 posted on 04/15/2011 5:47:16 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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