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Old 01-03-2011, 11:18 PM   #375 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
The major problem is that we're emitting CO2 at a very unsustainable rate.
Add the emerging economies (and consumers) to that, and it's bound to go wrong.

We're wasting perfectly good oil by burning it, while it could be used more efficiently to produce say composite materials.
Yep we are emitting it at an unsustainable rate, eventually we will run out of large quantities of stuff to burn, and when we can no longer sustain it economic forces will drive the switch to something more sustainable, the transition for the humans will not necessarily go smoothly *shrug*

Are all the fractions of oil good for composite materials? as I understand it some is good for burnin some is good for buildin.
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