Re[6]: [at-l] another stove question

[Bob C." <ellen@xxxxxxxxxx (Bob C.)]

>"... For global warming purposes,  alcohol, white gas and butane are better due
>to the nature of the combustion byproducts," argues Jim.

Which is simply not true, at least for white gas and butane. I don't know the
source of the energy used to dehydrate beer (fermented grains, as opposed to
wine, fermented fruits) into alcohol.

Jim, I'm afraid fails to understand the basic facts of global warming. It's the
sudden burning over a couple of centuries of fuels stored multiple millions of
years ago, that is changing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

If society turned to wood as an energy source, the global warming threat would
disappear as soon as the current buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
slowly gets absorbed by vegetation.

Burning vegetation that is currently growing is the natural carbon cycle that
neither adds, nor subtracts from atmospheric greenhouse gases. Vegetation decays
and releases carbon dioxide, or is burned and releases carbon dioxide. In either
case that carbon dioxide is reabsorbed in the growing of new vegetation,
continuing the cycle ad infinitum -- or at least until development finally paves
over the earth.

Weary