[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

This is very interesting and proof that there are plenty of technological solutions.

So let's stop denying and delaying and get to it.

[Yo-Yo]

Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

[Nathan Zachary]

(Psst!) Farmers have known this for centuries. So have all the plants and forrests on the planet which have been taking carbon out of the air since air began. Carbon is NOT a deadly
emission, but a necessary part of the atmosphere. All plants would die without this "evil" gas.
But, if people want to "Buy" carbon credits from the UN, it just shows how stupid sheeple can be.

[PeterPrinciple]

This is very interesting and proof that there are plenty of technological solutions.

So, how much of YOUR money have you invested in this so called technology? I will have more respect if you are a doer and not just a talker.

[Uncledave]

Renewable Energy Ping

Please Freep Mail me if you'd like on/off

[Moonman62]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=terrapreta

I posted a similar article back in February. There are many ways to manage any possible global warming effects without destroying capitalism or the United States.

[Condor51]

***So let's stop denying and delaying and get to it.****

You go first.

Get back to me in 30 years.

[Wonder Warthog]

"The particles of char produced this way are somehow able to gather up nutrients and water that might otherwise be washed down below the reach of roots."

"Somehow???" These guys need to read up on "activated charcoal". I'm sure that a similar phenomenon is involved.

[Popocatapetl]

Rule of thumb: Any environmental plan that involves wasting a resource is a bad idea.

Carbon dioxide is a valuable resource. Instead of throwing it away, it should be used to both make money and reduce overall energy use and reduce total waste atmospheric CO2.

An MIT professor found the best of several algaes that convert water, sunlight and CO2 into high grade biodiesel and a lesser quantity of ethanol. Even in the weak sun of Massachusetts it produced copious amounts of these fuels. It is a far more efficient process than using plant biomass.

By putting their waste CO2 through inexpensive on-site algae farms, industry can turn waste product into profit.

It saves all the energy needed to grow plant biomass crops; it slashes industrial waste CO2; it "recycles" the carbon into biodiesel and ethanol, which are easy to transport in quantity; its water can be recycled; and the processed dry algae can be used for animal fodder.

So once again, do not accept the notion of wasting a resource as a solution to a problem.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Then there are your risk-averse farmers. They haven't heard of char. And they aren't going to buy it — let alone buy a strangely named machine to make it — unless they know it will make them money. It is no good pitching it to them with a mouthful of scientific caveats about not knowing the right kind of char for each type of soil or exactly how it works."

This dumbass obviously knows little or nothing about farmers. They are some of the most scientifically oriented and forward-looking entrepreneurs to be found in the country. You show them a way to drastically improve soil fertility and productivity, and they'll be all over it.

[1010RD]

Let’s just keep burning our coal using clean coal technology. The world will do just fine.

[bert]

the ultimate char apparatus will use solar concentrators to provide the intense focused heat required to produce the smolder on a continuous conveyor powered by electric motors run on current from a wind generator