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What makes you think that carbon has to be part of a biosystem in order to combine with oxygen (burn)? Burning is only a question of whether a substance's combination with oxygen is exothermic or endothermic.
Regards,
Jack
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Robert Carlson wrote:
My point is that coal and petroleum, being biofuels, were once part of Earth's biosystem. The carbon in them has been removed from the biosystem and is no longer available to the biosystem as a renewable energy source. So, perhaps they should be burned and returned to the biosystem.