Re: Fluorescent Bulbs Are Known to Zap Domestic Tranquillity; Energy-Savers a Turnoff for Wives

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:50:27 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote
in message  <46603eed.694042546@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Carbon dioxide sequestration may not be necessary.
>
>     http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18582/


ROTFL

1) The vast preponderance of all CO2 ever produced on Earth has in fact been
"sequestered". And vast amounts will continue to be sequestered regardless
of what humans do. So sequestration has been and forever will be "necessary"
regardless of what is written in comp.home.automation by folks what
discovered the word last month ;-)

With respect to the Technology Review article cited ( "Making gasoline from
carbon dioxide" ):

2) How do you capture the CO2 from burning gasoline in a mobile source?

3)
	HC + 3/2*O2 -->  H20 + CO2 + energy released.
	C02 + energy required --> CO + O

Where does the energy for the second reaction come from ? Among the sequelae
for most any answer to given to that question is:  If that energy is in fact
available, why isn't it better used to create hydrogen (H2) and avoid the
complication of C altogether?

Course energy that you don't use ( Remember the " Three R's" ) doesn't
create pollution that needs to be mitigated by (eg) sequestration or
chemical reaction.

Which is part of why the general topic of energy conservation  is very much
'on topic' for comp.home.automation.

If the CFL-adverse in this newsgroup were to spend less time diminishing
themselves by fabricating strawmen to argue against, and more time exploring
useful approaches that home automation and control could advance, we'd all
be better off IMO.

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org