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Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ... by icebraining on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:13AM (#19897719)
By the way, the EROEI of fossil fuel is terrible. Do you know how much energy was required to turn all that organic matter into oil? A single gallon of gas requires 98 tons of plants to grow, then be buried, and then pressured and heated until they become oil, then finally be dug out and refined.
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Re:CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first ... by jonasvp on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:41AM (#19897870)
Totally. This was a one-time gift of fifty million years of sunshine and we burned it all off over a time span of about 300 years.
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