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Re: [Phys-l] gasoline



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.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

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