Re: role of forest fires in CO2 emissions

["Thomas J Savin " <tjsav@LYCOS.COM>]

Hi John,



Good Information, Thanks. When I envision all the CO2 and smoke and how fast the crude was burning it may have equalled the US burning rate for coal resulting in tons of CO2 being from.  Maybe global warming should be blamed on Hussein. (certainly nuclear plants)



Real question - 

Does anyone know of a source or survey of the different amounts and types of radionuclides found in the various coals (and oils) used for energy production throughuot the world?



Thanks in advance - Tom

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Tom Savin



On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:39:20  

 john grant wrote:

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>Thomas J Savin wrote:

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>> Hi Jim, thanks for your thoughts.  I am going to post this to all the members of radsafe for their consideration.  We have seen a number of estimates of the yearly discharge of CO2 into the atmosphere from various sources. My question to all is how much CO2 was emitted from the burning of the Kuwait oil fields - during AND after Dessert Storm?

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>To give you an example of how much coal is used,  "Railway Age Magazine" reports that there are about 130,000 car loads of coal moved every week in the US.  Each car carries at least 50 tons of coal.

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>If I have not screwed up in my math, that comes to about 11 tons per second.  This is every second of the year, and similar amounts have been shipped for many years.  Each ton of coal produces about two tons of CO2.

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>John Grant

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