01-25-2025, 07:31 PM
(01-25-2025, 07:11 PM)MonkMode Wrote: Actually I think paving helps: the lime in concrete sucks CO2 out of the air. I think it is something like calcium hydroxide sucks in carbon dioxide and calcium carbonate is formed, a solid on the ground, no longer part of the atmosphere. But I’m not a chemist so don’t quote me on that exact chemical reaction.
However a coal seam fire would appear to suck less weight in O2 out of the air than the weight it adds in CO2.
The Tunguska blast is not sufficiently explained by any prestigious scientific publication. But I am quite convinced it was due to the serious climate risk of excessive coal burning, from the massive Tunguska coal mining operation, going on directly underneath the blast. That is no spurious correlation.
On the paving of the world, I was commenting more on various issues...
more importantly, are you asserting the coal mining operation was the cause of the Tunguska blast?
Thought I had heard all the theories from mini black holes to antimatter, where can I read more about this interesting theory?
https://climate.mit.edu/posts/study-carb...are-needed
Quote:Almost 2.8 million lane-miles, or about 4.6 million lane-kilometers, of the United States are paved.
Roads and streets form the backbone of our built environment. They take us to work or school, take goods to their destinations, and much more.
However, a new study by MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) researchers shows that the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of all construction materials used in the U.S. pavement network are 11.9 to 13.3 megatons. This is equivalent to the emissions of a gasoline-powered passenger vehicle driving about 30 billion miles in a year.
As roads are built, repaved, and expanded, new approaches and thoughtful material choices are necessary to dampen their carbon footprint.
The CSHub researchers found that, by 2050, mixtures for pavements can be made carbon-neutral if industry and governmental actors help to apply a range of solutions — like carbon capture — to reduce, avoid, and neutralize embodied impacts. (A neutralization solution is any compensation mechanism in the value chain of a product that permanently removes the global warming impact of the processes after avoiding and reducing the emissions.) Furthermore, nearly half of pavement-related greenhouse gas (GHG) savings can be achieved in the short term with a negative or nearly net-zero cost.
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