[ExI] Carbon

[spike]

... On Behalf Of Keith Henson
> Subject: [ExI] Carbon
> 
> Twenty two years ago I wrote:
> 
> ". . . the real carbon dioxide crisis will be when there is 
> too little from people taking carbon (the strongest 
> engineering material) out of the air... "Some civic minded types (the
Autaban Society? Serria Club?) 
> might burn coal fields to bring the level back up so plant 
> productivity wouldn't be seriously hurt." Keith

Ja, but we wouldn't need to haul down the carbon out of the air.  Rather we
would deliver it directly to the homes and factories in the form of coal,
the old fashioned way.  Also, the quantities of carbon I expect we will use
is miniscule, since all the really cool stuff I can imagine we would build
would be tiny.  Reason: we don't have the space to build really big stuff.
We already build our homes mostly of carbon.  If we made them from
better-organized carbon, it would take far less than we currently use.

spike