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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@gmail.com> <br><b>…</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<br><br>Keith<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…PS. I know you don't think more CO2 is a problem, but I think it is causing rising temperatures…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, I have little doubt it is causing rising AVERAGE temperatures. But why do we use average temperature? What if… it is warming the poles and cooling the equator? Is that a bad thing? Consider aaaaallll thaaat laaaaaand, up in Canada, just sitting there doing nothing, because it just gets too cold in the winter. If increased CO2 results in increased cloud cover, then more of that becomes useful land.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…and that is making big fires more common…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, but increased cloud cover would reduce fires if anything.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is something I am thinking about a lot. That former neighborhood was all contractor-built, so it was all wood frame, wood roof, wood siding, asphalt shingle, redwood fences, hundreds of homes built that way. But… it wouldn’t need to be. In California, homes are more commonly built with stucco. Since the 1989 earthquake, fire resistance building codes were put in place, which mandates stuff like my house has: narrow eves, metal protection around the roof periphery, no exposed wood anywhere, take out all the tall trees, concrete shingle roofs etc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am thinking of buying my FIL out of that now-empty lot in Spokane, then putting a fire-resistant house in its place: stucco and metal external everything, metal truss roof, concrete shingle, narrow eves, the works. I did a preliminary pricing of these techniques and realize why it isn’t used by contractors: it makes the house damn expensive, twice as much as a wooden house. Had any of these Rifle Club neighborhood homes used those construction technologies, it would be the only house standing right now. (Hmmm, that in itself gives me pause (I would be living where building contractors are pounding, buzzing and grinding for the next three to five years.))<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… sorting out the resulting CO2, which can then be sequestered if you have a place to put it… Keith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I haven’t figured out how CO2 sequestration wouldn’t gobble up most of the energy it liberated in formation. Whaddya have in mind Keith?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>