I have been asked by another lister to take this topic off-list, so I'll keep
it brief. I'm happy to chat off-list.
>> (yes, SOx causes acid rain... but CO2 is the bigger problem, IMHO).
>I'll challenge that statement, Nick ... you try breathing air containing 300
>ppm SOx and I'll breathe air containing 300 ppm CO2, let's see who dies
>first !
That's not the point. SOx is a regional problem, and it doesn't stick around.
As soon as we figure out how to stop producing it (and NOx), acid rain is gone
in a year. CO2 is a global problem, taking hundreds of years to build up or
diminish, and we may already have passed a "point of no return" in terms of
climate change because of it.
>Are equal amounts of SOx and CO2 being released into the environment?
In California, power plants produce over 4000 times more CO2 than SOx.
-Nick
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