[Terrapreta] Terra Preta and the Global Carbon Cycle

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Michael,

Is it you speaking in the story  Do you really see 100,000 coal carrying ships on your coastline?  How much coal in one of those ships?  Several kilotons?  A megaton per ship?  How long does it take to unload and use one ship load of coal?

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Bailes<mailto:michaelangelica at gmail.com> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Terra Preta and the Global Carbon Cycle


  I wonder how all this gels with Tim Flannery's comments in
   "The Weather Makers" that 
  in  1997 the world used the equivalent of 422 years of fossil sunlight. 
  (p77)
  and
  6 billion people are using four times as much energy as their grandfathers 100 years before.
  and
  "If humans were to look to biomass as a . . .replacement, we would need to increase our consumption of all primary production on land by 50%" 
  (p78)
  and
  between 1800 and 1980 humans produced 244 petajoules of energy.From 1980-99 humans produced 117 petajoules
  About half of the total emitted over the previous 180 years)
  (p79)
  and
  ". . .half of the energy generated since the Industrial Revolution has been consumed in just the last 20 years"  
  (p167) say since the first cotton mill in 1733?

  a story
  I came across a very rich Chinese man the other day.
   He is here buying Tasmania.
  I asked how he had so much money.
  He took over the Chinese, State run, dilapidated cement works 20 years ago.
  Now with a city the size of Brisbane going up every month, in China, there is a bit of demand for his product

  I also heard that:- 
   "Making one tonne  of cement produces one tonne of greenhouse gases."

  I see all the coal ships waiting, just here, along the coast (100K of them), and wonder,- how can we ever make that much charcoal and /or biomass? 

  I think I should take another anti-depressant and go to bed.
  Michael 
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