Comment Re:Why Farming for Gas Sucks (Score 1) 558
If you're worried about global warmining, farming carbon based fuel is certainly better than digging it up out of the ground.
This is becasue plants takes carbon out of the atmosphere as they grow - the same amount of carbon as will be generated when the fuel is burned. A pretty sustainable system if we could make all our fuel this way.
Imagine an alien spacecraft discovering Earth in a couple of hundred years and finding that our civilisation has died becasue we didn't figure out a sustainable way of harnassing the sun's energy without destroying the environment... how embarassing!
This is becasue plants takes carbon out of the atmosphere as they grow - the same amount of carbon as will be generated when the fuel is burned. A pretty sustainable system if we could make all our fuel this way.
Imagine an alien spacecraft discovering Earth in a couple of hundred years and finding that our civilisation has died becasue we didn't figure out a sustainable way of harnassing the sun's energy without destroying the environment... how embarassing!
