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Comment Hmm ... CaCO3 + Heat - CaO + CO2 ... (Score 3, Informative) 114

So if one cooks LimeStone ( CaCO3 ) then one can make QuickLime ( CaO ) and Carbon Dioxide ( CO2 )

This is an essential ingredient in Concrete and we have known about it for Eons.

So, where does the initial CO2 go from the LimeStone ( CaCO3 ) to QuickLime ( CaO )
Reaction go ?

Hint: One CANNOT capture more CO2 in the secondary CaO + CO2 -> CaCO3 Reaction than one made initilly -- it is impossible.

Thermodynamics at work.

Sounds like the SnakeOil man has sold a Perpetual Motion Machine to MicroSoft to me.

-- kjh

Comment IOW, Greenland lost 0.0186% of Total Ice in 2019 (Score 2) 129

Let's see ...

Wikipedia sez there are 684,000 cu mi of Ice on the Greenland Ice Cap. see: ahref=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet/rel=url2html-31145https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...>

This is about 100,683,399,168,000,000 cubic feet of ice ( 5280 * 5280 * 5280 * 684,000 )

At 62.427 lb / cubic foot, we have 6,285,362,559,860,736,000 pounds of Ice on Greenland which is 3,142,681,279,930,368 tons of Ice.

Finally, ( 586,000.000.000 loss ) / ( 3,142,681,279,930,368 total ) * 100 = 0.018646 %

If my arithmetic is Correct, that is ...

-- kjh

Comment Sure we can ! (Score 2) 407

All we have to do is move back into caves which is what the eco extremists really want.for everyone but themselves ...

On second thought, I believe they want we, the unwashed masses to move back into trees and to forget that we know how to make fire.

Yeah ... that's it !

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