[Magdalen] gas prices?

[Jim Guthrie]

From: ROGER STOKES

>The advantage of wood is that it is a renewable source of energy.  Grow more 
>trees and the leaves transpire, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing >oxygen. 
>That is why, over time, they are asically carbon neutral.  In the short term 
>they absorb carbon from the atmosphere and it is only that carbon that >is 
>released when the wood is burnt,  That is a biology lesson rather than a 
>chemistry one.

I'm not sure that trees and other for a are discriminating about using carbon 
from coal, oil, natural gas or wood.

Sometimes I wonder if we couldn’t capture a huge amount of carbon growing Kudzu 
(which sometimes grows 6" per day) or some other fast growing plant, harvesting 
it and sequestering it in old coal mines.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie

PS Of course, in the [very]  long run, coal is renewable <g>.