It's Great When Things Work

It's great when things work the way they are supposed to work.  Cow eats grass, extracts needed nutrients, deposits remains where needed, rains come and break up organic material; fungi, microbes, insects and worms further break it into smaller particles which feed the grass which is then of even higher nutrient value to feed the cow again at some point in the future.  It's an amazing system of constantly recycling organic material (read that as "carbon") and it is all powered by the sun which regularly passes overhead.

As the grasses grow they extract carbon dioxide from the air and break it up, releasing oxygen back into the air for the cow and us to breath while incorporating the carbon into the fibers of its own body.  The way the plants, microbes, animals, sun and all of the various organisms work together into an almost flawlessly tuned system causes me to pause in wonder when I think about it.  It's too bad we can't design a system that works as well to capture the excess carbon we release into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels!  If we did so, there wouldn't be such an outcry against agriculture utilizing the false claim that it is the cause of global warming.

What if the exhaust systems of our combustion engines powered by fossil fuels contained a mechanism that fractured the escaping gasses into their component parts?  The vehicle, or power plant, could have a tank to collect water, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and the other minor elements present in our fuel.  The atmosphere would be cleaner and we wouldn't have to breath the exhaust fumes.  Maybe all the carbon captured could be used to manufacture printer cartridges and drive their price down to something reasonable!

The reality is that most of the people pushing an agenda tied to climate change aren't trying to "save the planet," they have some other purpose in mind such as recouping their investment in Electric Cars, or perhaps they are Vegan and opposed to eating animals.  Too much of the hype is driven by people out to make a buck, or to gain power.  If they really wanted to save the planet they wouldn't be traveling around the world in their private jets and they would be focused more on transportation and the way our cities are designed.  They would try to develop building materials that were less reflective or, paving materials that allowed water to pass through, or reduce urban sprawl which covers productive land which works as described in the first part of this post as a natural recycling system for carbon.

As I mentioned above, it's nice when things work the way they should.  Mankind in his wisdom, though, continues to disrupt the natural processes with bright-eyed (read that "hair-brained") schemes to "fix" what isn't broken while breaking what doesn't need to be fixed.  It makes you wonder....