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If someone had a LOT of money and we asked them to build a factory to
do nothing but pump out extremely gigantic amounts of CO2, would this
"speed up" or have any measurable effect on Global Warming ??

Note:I'm speaking of a factory that could produce a daily amount of
CO2 in nearly unimaginable amounts 24 hours a day non-stop.

I'd be delighted with a sincere and honest answer to this scenario.

And yes I am being sincere and serious with this question.
I am NOT trying to trip anyone up and have not Biased my question as I
am willing to accept any thoughtful answer.

It might actually help some of us understand this topic more, might
make one side or the other be more solid in their belief.

Thank You so much,

Crackles McFarly, German-Irish-American






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Crackles McFarly wrote:

If someone had a LOT of money and we asked them to build a factory to
do nothing but pump out extremely gigantic amounts of CO2, would this
"speed up" or have any measurable effect on Global Warming ??

Note:I'm speaking of a factory that could produce a daily amount of
CO2 in nearly unimaginable amounts 24 hours a day non-stop.

I'd be delighted with a sincere and honest answer to this scenario.

And yes I am being sincere and serious with this question.
I am NOT trying to trip anyone up and have not Biased my question as I
am willing to accept any thoughtful answer.

It might actually help some of us understand this topic more, might
make one side or the other be more solid in their belief.


The factory would have to use unimaginable amounts of energy to make the
CO2. By making all the CO2, you would suck so much heat out of the
atmosphere, the planet would freeze solid all the way down to the core.
Were this to happen, the expanding cold front from Earth would likely
freeze the solar system, stopping planetary motion, causing Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus all to plummet into the sun, causing it
to go supernova, which would upset the Milky Way, who would then expel the
Solar System into the intergalatic void for causing trouble, and when the
Earth crossed the galactic boundary we would all be changed into evil
supermen intent on destroying the Enterprise except first we would nail the
hot chick with weird eyes before dying because a big rock fell on us.

If you're going to come up with stupid ideas, at least learn a little
thermodynamics first to make them practical.

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On Jul 15, 6:57 pm, William Asher wrote:
Crackles McFarly wrote:
If someone had a LOT of money and we asked them to build a factory to
do nothing but pump out extremely gigantic amounts of CO2, would this
"speed up" or have any measurable effect on Global Warming ??


Note:I'm speaking of a factory that could produce a daily amount of
CO2 in nearly unimaginable amounts 24 hours a day non-stop.


I'd be delighted with a sincere and honest answer to this scenario.


And yes I am being sincere and serious with this question.
I am NOT trying to trip anyone up and have not Biased my question as I
am willing to accept any thoughtful answer.


It might actually help some of us understand this topic more, might
make one side or the other be more solid in their belief.


The factory would have to use unimaginable amounts of energy to make the
CO2. By making all the CO2, you would suck so much heat out of the
atmosphere, the planet would freeze solid all the way down to the core.
Were this to happen, the expanding cold front from Earth would likely
freeze the solar system, stopping planetary motion, causing Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus all to plummet into the sun, causing it
to go supernova, which would upset the Milky Way, who would then expel the
Solar System into the intergalatic void for causing trouble, and when the
Earth crossed the galactic boundary we would all be changed into evil
supermen intent on destroying the Enterprise except first we would nail the
hot chick with weird eyes before dying because a big rock fell on us.


Actually there is a way to measure the energy requirement. Just
substitute a week's volcanic output for a time there should have been
a large magnitude quake or a super tropical storm:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.g...7e55c054c1b1/#

And you can do it with simple substitution and a lot less vitriol.

When the North Atlantic Oscillation and I presume something similar
for other large ocean basins, is negative, we tend to get high
volcanic activity at the expense of severe quakes or super-cyclones:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.g...1b3239dd5a5c28

My definition of a negative oscillation is an earlier rendition of the
phenomenon than that which is accepted these days. I require a longish
period where cyclones and anticyclones have core pressures not that
dissimilar to each other.


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And you can do it with simple substitution and a lot less vitriol.


I never said to use vitriol, I was assuming the factory would convert
energy into matter. If you want to start with vitriol, then you would
release energy, at least to make carbon out of the hydrogen in vitriol.
You would also have to use energy to make the electrons to turn one of the
protons in the chlorine in vitriol into a neutron so the chlorine became
oxygen (you could use the extra neutrons to add mass to the hydrogens
making up the carbon, but then you would have an excess of oxygen since you
need six neutrons per six hydrogens to make one carbon and you only need
two oxygens per carbon to make a CO2 so you would have 4 extra oxygens
kicking around (I suppose you could make an ozone give the remaining oxygen
to some homeless guy on the corner (I see no need to make two oxygen
molecules and give both to a homeless guy, because I am totally against
providing a useful handout to people who for whatever reason, won't do an
honest day's work to earn their oxygen))). It's possible that you would
release energy by making CO2 from vitriol since generating electrons
probably doesn't take much energy compared to the energy released from
fusing protons, which is why I didn't propose it, since, in my scenario,
with a freezing solar system, we get to nail the hot chick with the weird
glowing eyes (unless you aren't into nailing hot chicks with weird glowing
eyes).

Let me know if you need me to post this explanation as an interpretive
dance for you.

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:57:31 +0000 (UTC), William Asher
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Crackles McFarly wrote:

If someone had a LOT of money and we asked them to build a factory to
do nothing but pump out extremely gigantic amounts of CO2, would this
"speed up" or have any measurable effect on Global Warming ??

Note:I'm speaking of a factory that could produce a daily amount of
CO2 in nearly unimaginable amounts 24 hours a day non-stop.

I'd be delighted with a sincere and honest answer to this scenario.

And yes I am being sincere and serious with this question.
I am NOT trying to trip anyone up and have not Biased my question as I
am willing to accept any thoughtful answer.

It might actually help some of us understand this topic more, might
make one side or the other be more solid in their belief.


The factory would have to use unimaginable amounts of energy to make the
CO2. By making all the CO2, you would suck so much heat out of the
atmosphere, the planet would freeze solid all the way down to the core.
Were this to happen, the expanding cold front from Earth would likely
freeze the solar system, stopping planetary motion, causing Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus all to plummet into the sun, causing it
to go supernova, which would upset the Milky Way, who would then expel the
Solar System into the intergalatic void for causing trouble, and when the
Earth crossed the galactic boundary we would all be changed into evil
supermen intent on destroying the Enterprise except first we would nail the
hot chick with weird eyes before dying because a big rock fell on us.

If you're going to come up with stupid ideas, at least learn a little
thermodynamics first to make them practical.


Well gee thanks.

The whole point behind a question is that you're not sure about the
answer.

I guess you live on Mars part time.

Yours Truly,
Crackles R. McFarly
It's a silly website but aren't they all?
http://cracklesmcfarly.blogspot.com/


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