Alternative (green) Engines
CO2, I heard on a Radio 4 (BBC) news article last week, is mainly
produced (in nature) by insects and farm animals. Apparently
insects, mainly termites, generate more CO2 than automobiles. The
news article tried to be serious, however comments about how to stop
insects from farting lowered the tone greatly. Also feed stocks
(diet) can reduce CO2 produced from livestock, not from the gas
emitted from the tail end, but from the breath that is emitted from
the front end (especially by ruminants).
No matter what one says, the facts that I have read imply that cars &
trucks generate less than 3% of the world's CO2. Last year Porsche
GB put out a pretty strong argument in a large daily paper against
the congestion charge being levied by the then left wing "Red" Ken
Livingston, mayor of London, claiming that CO2 from cars was
miniscule compared to the natural production by nature's best.
Bloody insects, cows, sheep and pigs generate more, so I am being told.
Issue for me and I guess some of you too, is that there are a lot of
conflicting facts and opinions. e.g. as the Artcic ice recedes, the
Antarctic increases. Some say on radio and press that as a result of
shifting ice concentrations, the earth will become lop-sided as a
result and cause even more climate change due to some latitudes going
further north and some further south. Go figure!
Clyde
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