[TheForge] eco coke OT:

[peter fels]

On May 25, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> 
> 
> CraigSchaefer wrote:
> 
>> Couldn't you just bury the crap and sequester ALL of the carbon
>> instead of letting some of it go as CO2 and CO from burning off the
>> volatiles?
> 
> The $64 question.

As a guess, bacteria reduce the stuff releasing a similar amount of  gas which makes it's way into the air.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hard to believe someone got a recent patent on this idea.   Making
>> charcoal in an airtight environment is not a recent revelation.
> 
> This presupposes that the people in question (patent people) are 
> rational and honest and competent.  Those are pretty steep assumptions, 
> unfortunately.
> 
> Consider the patents that Monsanto has currently secured for genetic 
> material that has been around for probably tens or even hundreds of 
> millions of years.  What logic went into that decision?  It probably 
> looked a lot like George Washington, many many times replicated.

The logic is that money can buy votes,as well as legislators, in effect, .
Until we can separate the 2, that's what is gonna happen
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