Re: [school-discuss] FOSS -- environmental friendly -- methane

[u0107552@utah.edu]

What puzzles me is... Don't we want *more* atmospheric carbon to become "fixed"
rather than less.  Phil seems confused.  Unless his grass is floating around
in the atmosphere. :)


Quoting the thread:

> On Tuesday 24 August 2004 4:47 am, Phil Driscoll wrote:
> 
> >
> > Whilst not wanting to start a flame war - releasing still more CO2 into
> the
> > atmosphere - remember that these cows are eating vegetation which only a
> > few months earlier was fixing carbon from the atmosphere, and whilst there
> > is undeniably a vast quantity of gaseous bovine output, there is no net
> > increase in carbon in the atmosphere as a result of this (unless someone
> > has worked out a way to feed cattle on coal or oil).
> >
>