Re: Wind energy a boon for farmers - tenfold returns !

From: Richard Henry (rphenry_at_home.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:54:21 -0800

"Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwheelsfudge@gwi.net> wrote in message
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> <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Yep. And this is the irony of all the greenie woodenheadedness.
> > They're all against oil and nuclear "pollutions" but have no
> > qualms about inundating the neighbors and neighborhood with
> > their wood smoke from their wood stoves; there are studies
> > that have reported that wood smoke is more carcingenic than
> > cigarette smoke.
>
> I live in Maine, lots of people burn wood here, no-one seems to be
> "innundated" ,as you so rhetorically posed, by their neighbors smoke,nor
do
> we inhale it through little tubes on a regular basis. We are however
using
> a carbon source that will go to the atmosphere anyways if we let the wood
> rot in lieu of burning carbon that was, and would have remained,
sequestered
> from the atmosphere for millenium.

I would like to see the calculations on how fast a typical woodland returns
all the carbon in its tree-wood to the atmosphere.

It is my guess that a good deal of the carbon remains locked in the soil for
centuries, perhaps long enough to eventually become peat or coal.

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