The Potential of Potato Power

[snoopy369]

Um, why can't I tell you it leaves your body through other forms? You know about chemical reactions, right? When different molecules interact to form NEW molecules?

Farts are primarily CH4. That's how it is... sorry ...

[Ecthy]

I must admit I'm not an expert on that. I've been under the impession that intake of CO2 in form of carbed drinks does not change the overall balance whatsoever. I wouldn't know why our body had functions to absorb CO2 in the digestive system. It isn't really natural, you know.

[snoopy369]

We take in CO2 all the time. We also give it off all the time. The point I think is that the amount of CO2 in bubbly drinks isn't significant compared to the amount of CO2 given off by cars

To be honest most CO2 (really H2CO3) in bubbly drinks probably leaves the body through breathing out CO2, as it probably dissolves into the blood and then leaves the body through the same way the CO2 that you make through respiration (breathing it out through the lungs).

[Ecthy]

So it's burp power much more than fart power

[snoopy369]

Huh? Well, some burping I suppose, but mostly through breathing.

Do you understand human biology at all?

[Ecthy]

As you swallow the carb drink the CO2 gets into your stomach not lungs. So you burp it not breath it.

[snoopy369]

Anyway if you're worried about CO2 just build up the phytoplankton levels through iron deposition in the ocean. Simple way to take huge quantities (greater than are being currently put in) out of the atmosphere, and deposited as solid carbon (which won't readily return to the atmosphere).

[snoopy369]

Some of the CO2 in the stomach is absorbed into the blood and then leaves through the lungs.

[Elok]

Ngh. My point was that I don't give a damn and thus hadn't given it much thought. It's an economic issue for me, not an environmental one.

[Heresson]

somebody please try to utilise our potato twins.

[EyesOfNight]

I'm sorry, I must be missing the part where it says, "Manmade global warming is a scientific fact supported by concrete evidence that will absolutely lead to the destruction of mankind." Link for this?

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Elok
Ngh. My point was that I don't give a damn and thus hadn't given it much thought. It's an economic issue for me, not an environmental one.

Thinking that the two aren't related is 20th century thinking.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Farts are CH4...

You are being oversimplistic about farting.

Farts are made up of several gases. CH4 true, but the less smelling ones are CO2. Mythbuster tested this, and drinking fizzy drinks doubles the rate of farting. poot!

Even though the potato system turns out CO2, this is ecologically better than our current system because, rather than turning it out of mobile vehicles, the CO2 would be produced at the plant and could be captured.

[Elok]

Originally posted by EyesOfNight
I'm sorry, I must be missing the part where it says, "Manmade global warming is a scientific fact supported by concrete evidence that will absolutely lead to the destruction of mankind." Link for this?

Oh hell no, we're not starting a GW argument thread here. While I have serious doubts about our ability to predict the weather worldwide years in advance when we can't effectively predict it locally for next week, I'm not up to weeding through all the graphs, charts, and shouting people on both sides calling me an alarmist fascist appeaser or whatever pejoratives are currently in vogue. I'm accepting for the sake of argument that it is true. And then discounting that acceptance based on my understanding that the proposed "cure" to global warming is worse than the disease.

Richelieu, elaborate if you please. The environment is an economic issue insofar as it contains finite resources to be used and pollution can damage the systems replenishing those resources. I can accept that. However, the two being related does not keep them from being distinct concerns in other respects. Such as my dislike of financing the Arabs. Whoops, dinnertime, I'd better post this and resume later.