Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Kai Kaletsch <info@eic.nu>

An: RadSafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2002 23:38

Betreff: Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power





Absolutely nothing to do with radiation, but one of my pet peeves:



> Less CO2 leaves the USA on our east coast than enters on west because our

> forests absorb more than our cars produce.



Most mature forests do NOT absorb CO2. (Where is the carbon supposed to go?)

There are a few swampy places where the forests are making peat, but a

forest in equilibrium cannot absorb CO2. CO2 is absorbed by wheat fields.

The O2 is released and C is shipped off in the wheat. (Of course the C gets

released when someone eats the wheat)

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I have some problems to understand your arguments, especially since you with

the "wheat argument" give yourself the reason, why you are wrong. Wood is

cut in forests and therefore the C in wood is shipped off, exactly like it

is in wheat, and it is over the time released again - though at another

place. CO2 is needed by the forest to replenish the wood and bushes removed

and destroyed by logging and fires. Your argument would only be valid, if

all forests were in "secular equilibrium" - but they are not.



Further I do not understand why wheat fields have enhanced radon emissions.

The cause for enhanced emission of radon from soil would be tilling - but

this is done in all kind of cultivations. Could you please explain?



Franz









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