[Terrapreta] Charcoal agriculture: not ready for prime time

[Duane Pendergast]

Good one Jeff,

I hear concerns that China and other "developing" countries are planning to
build a lot of coal power plants spewing carbon dioxide into the air. Why
the concern? They can dig it up and burn it. The "developed" countries can
capture it and sequester it while building up their soil bases. The rich get
richer. The poor get poorer. How's that for a foxy plan? Don't tell anyone.

(Still Smiling)

Duane Pendergast

-----Original Message-----
From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Davis
Sent: May 29, 2007 9:07 PM
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Charcoal agriculture: not ready for prime time

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 2:50 am, Tom Miles wrote:
> Now think of putting this quantity of carbon back into the soil each year.
        (in regards to mining coal)

This is an easy one Tom...... Just leave the coal in the ground.... It was 
already sequestered!

Think of all the fuel saved by not digging the stuff up.....


(SMILE)


Jeff



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