Re: [Phys-l] gasoline

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

It was from Minds of Our Own.  Incidentally there were also Harvard profs
who said the same thing, and most biology graduates that I have asked this
also said the soil.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> Was this from "A Private Universe" or "Minds of Our Own"?
>
> This leads to a "Fermi" problem:  How much forest growth is necessary to
> balance the world's production of CO2?
>
> bc, who was surprised that there is max. only ~ 6.7% C in a sat soln. in
> iron.  It's a similar reason / calculation.
>
> John M Clement wrote:
>
> > As surprising as the answer to how much CO_2 is produced, the reverse
> > question is just as interesting and could not be answered by most
> > Harvard graduates.
> >
> > Given a wooden log, where did most of the mass of the log come from.
> >
> > Most Harvard graduates said the soil.