[Stoves] a paper quantatifying the GHG load of various carbon pathways back to atmosphere

[Choppalli Venkata Krishna]

  Dear Jim,
Thanks for the pdf. I have gained by this. May your tribe grow
-Krishna

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 jim mason wrote :
>http://allpowerlabs.org/papers/GHGPathwaysStudyPacInst.pdf
>
>here finally is a paper that attempts to represent the ghg load/life
>of various pathways of biomass carbon back to atmosphere.  (for those
>new here, remember, all the carbon in solid biomass is going to back
>to gas in the atmoshere in the end.  there is no stasis here, only
>cycle.  however, the form it will take, and the time it will take to
>do so can vary greatly: ch4, co, c02, and with indirect relationships
>to amounts of no2, nox, h2o, etc.)
>
>there is a great graphic on page six that shows the relative ghg
>impact of uncontrolled burning, bad landfill, good landfill,
>composting (anerobic) , spead composting (aerobic), biomass energy,
>etc on the transformation of biomass carbon to various gases with
>various ghg impacts.  the graph well shows the impact of the increased
>ch4 of composting, and once again proves that hippies are bad and
>should all be gasified (ideally with a partial biochar take off and
>careful remediation of the toxic heavy metal ash byproducts).
>
>as we all know, it is very difficult to make arguments for thermal
>based biomass curation/reduction scenarios with the current "no
>burning" biases of most environmental discussions.  clear framing of
>the options and ghg consequences like herein should do much to
>enrichen the conversation and advance the science and art of burning
>things.
>
>in time it will be helpful to see the biochar route represented, as
>well as a combined energy through gasification with partial biochar
>take off.  straight gasification will of course have the same curve as
>the assumed perfect combustion to co2 and h2o in the biomass energy
>energy line.
>
>the pointer to this paper comes from bernie at green waste recycle
>yard.  the paper is from the pacific institute.
>
>j
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