Energy use

A gallon of gas requires a lot of ancient plant matter.

200,000 pounds (100 tons) of plant matter (equivalent of 40 acres of
wheat) yields 13 pounds of oil. This, in turn yields 6 pounds of gasoline
(one gallon).

When burned, a gallon yields 5 pounds of carbon and 20 pounds of CO2. But
this is another subject

Annually, the US burns 130 million gallons of gas.

That's 25 quadrillion pounds of plant matter (25,000.000.000.000.000
pounds), or 5 billion acres or wheat equivalent (5.000,000,000).

Since 1751, when the modern industrial revolution occurred, the world has
burned the amount of fossil fuel (coal, gas and oil)
that would have come from all the plants on earth for 13,300 years. (YECs
take notice. There seems to be a bit more left).

We are using this stuff 100 times as fast as it is being replenished. And
that's ON AVERAGE, 1751-2004.

What might be the rate today?

Source: DISCOVER magazine, April 2004, page 11. The researcher quoted is
Jeffrey Dukes from the University of Massachuetts.

Burgy

www.burgy.50megs.com/astory.htm (a story to tell)

Ubi Caritas

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Received on Thu Mar 11 12:17:30 2004