This report misleads the people. The pollution near the automobiles will be greatly reduced and the source of the pollution can be upgraded quickly in regards to SO2. Also the actual CO2 and SO2 release of oil used as gasoline is not well known or well characterised. Much sulphur containing sour gas is just flared off at wells and refineries to produce SO2. Massive oil spills and methane releases in the countries producing the crude oil are not well measured and are not well characterized.

It takes 120 units of energy in crude oil to make 100 units of energy as gasoline. The units of energy needed to pump the oil through pipelines and tanker ships is not well known and rarely, if ever, directly measured. Oil in the ground is cheap, it is as free as solar energy. Oil producers can burn a lot of the oil in getting it to you.

Even the direct burning of crude oil instead of coal for the production of electricity does not greatly increase the amount of CO2 released per kilowatt hour

Five dollars a barrel is a very high estimate for the drilling costs and pumping costs and exploration costs for oil from the middle east. The rest of it is profit to speculators who are conspiring to restrict the supply to keep the price high.

The people who wish to promote the far higher priced so called renewable energy also will make every effort to protect their profits. There is no renewable energy it all comes from nuclear reactions. The sun will burn up the earth but there will be enough uranium and thorium and for the human race to burn until then.

After a million years plus fifty we will even burn hydrogen in fusion reactors and this will vastly increase our ability to produce plutonium for bombs or nuclear fuel. Practical Fusion has been just fifty years away for the past seventy years.

China and other countries that have coal must use it in any way they can to prevent this extortion by the oil price speculators. The energy in coal is one tenth the price or less than the energy in oil and this is why China and all other countries should use plug in hybrid electric cars even if all of the electricity comes from coal.

There are no complete statistics that can show that the use of Coal in only relatively modern coalfired power plants produces more CO2 release than the use of refined liquid fuels does on a well or mine to wheel basis. The electric car-coal_fired_generator combination is usually higher efficiency in regards to energy use and CO2 release and always can be. It definately reduces local NOX on the roads.

Every coal fired generator can be converted to capture most of the CO2 within a years time. Just try that with tens of thousands of automobiles. I do not recommend that this be done, but most of the SO2 could be.

Statistics on the release of CO2 per mile for electric cars operated on Coal Electricity were once available on the AC Propulsion or the WrightSpeed sites and they were favorable to the electric car. But the cost and the localized control of pollution is the important point.

This report may have its values skewed by funding of proaganda from the oil industry who's vast profits can vanish over night temporary and permanently as in France with nuclear electricity. It is cheaper to make hydrogen in France from nuclear electricity and then just burn it in ordinary automobile engines than the market price of crude oil during most of the recent years. IT IS about five or more times as efficient to use the electricity in electric cars than it is to burn the hydrogen in automobile engines.

It should be clear by now to the Chinese government that they should be making gasoline and diesel out of Coal for much lower costs. The chemical industry is already converting to gasified coal.

A great boost to the Chinese economy right now would be a massive project to build hundreds of coal to liquid fuels conversion plants. The construction costs would be loaned by the central government which can soon and always recoup them with a minimum tax on imported crude oil of $35. Eventually the capital costs of such factories should be paid off and then they can produce fuel at a lower cost than from oil even at $20.

The first factories should produce methanol which can be stored for long periods and used directly in automobiles without much inconvenience and with very low NOX and hydrocarbon release. Some automobile races required the use of clean burning methanol until ethanol became more politically correct.

Methanol is easy to convert to gasoline. Methanol is a very good and highly efficient cooking fuel; it requires only very cheap simple equipment for clean burning and can replace most uses of charcoal, propane or natural gas methane. Even natural gas requires more complicated equipment than methanol to cook with.

Many of the synthetic fuel factories should be located next to nuclear power generators to use the cheap and waste heat in the processes and sometimes even cheap electricity to produce hydrogen to use in the process.

One hundred percent of the used nuclear fuel from the standard US type and French type of reactors can be recycled into fuel for their Canadian type heavy water reactors but it is more cost effective to remove the fissioned atoms and mix in other depleted uranium or thorium first. The raw fuel cost for the heavy water reactors is then more than free because no expense is needed to store the major part of old fuel from the other reactors for millenia as it can now be used. The plutonium produced in such a cycle is impossible to use in atomic bombs because it has the wrong mix of isotopes but is useful to produce more energy.

All of the plutonium and uranium from unused nuclear weapons can also be mixed into the recycled used fuel where its value as a bomb fuel is permanently destroyed just by mixing.

Every pound of this ex bomb fuel replaces the use of about three million pounds of coal or more and it can be much more in some cycles. Studies indicate that a combined Candu Reactor and reprocessing cycle can operate without any fuel input but thorium after it is started, but it will not produce enough extra fuel for other reactors. Other cycles that use heavy water can even improve upon this very slightly.

Accelerator driven reactors and breeder reactors can do even better at producing new fuel. You can now drive almost CO2 free anywhere in France or Norway with its Hydroelectric power. But it is interesting that Norway is one of the largest producers and exporters of the addictive but necessary drug of the industrialized and also completely undeveloped societies of this earth, carbon.

Most people do not even know that they breathe out CO2. It is their demand for products and services that has increased the amount of carbon extracted from the earth where it was stored for millions of years. If the increase of CO2 removes all or a large percentage of people from the planet with global warming it is just natural feedback and would be the best thing for the other inhabitants of the planet.

Yeast puts out penicillin and other chemicals to eliminate other organisms around it. Humans do not use much botulism toxin, which is molecule for molecule one of the most concentrated poisons and much more effective and rapid than plutonium, to eliminate their neighbors we are just using CO2. Even at this point some plants could use more CO2 as the supplies of the gas to some greenhouses proves. Before humans the air at one time had much more CO2 and no oxygen but the plants poisoned it with oxygen. ..HG..

Argonne put its name on this? Or just more VR disinfo?

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This is BLASPHEMY!!!

We, like Dr. Mann, et al, MUST work to see to it that this kind of garbage NEVER gets published again. How dare someone claim that our god be false.

Praise be to Algore!

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During the last big eastern blackout, air quality improved markedly. Autos were still on the road but coal fired power plants were off-line. Coal is a worse polluter.

Mannstein,

You are just asking for a ban.