Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

I'm not sure what it reduces, I think it might be CO2 - it's listed on my MOT certificate, but I can't say I paid any attention.

No they do not reduce CO2, if anything theyt increase it.

Catalytic converters use a platinum catalist that cause harmful gasses like nitrogen and oxides to break up and from nitrogen and oxygen and carbon monoxide to react with oxygen to form CO2.

I've heard that because the limit the exhaust's efficiency, they reduce the overall efficiency of the engine which increases CO2 emissions.

Originally Posted by Electric_EyE

idiot. your insecurity and willingness to blame other people for what? CO2 emissions? or any kind of emissions for that matter, mostly comes from volcanoes. also, when plants/trees are starved for water they have a reverse photosynthesis. instead of absorbing co2 and emitting O2, they wind up emitting co2.

It is funny that you should call someone an idiot and in the same breath make a completly uninformed statement showing your complete misunderstanding of plant biology.

WTF is reverse photosynthesis? Does the plant shoot out light beams?

I suspect your are refering to C4 plants like sugarcane, corn and the grass family. These plants preface the calvin cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_cycle with an alternate mode of carbon fixation. These types of plants are common in high temp dry areas. They are able to close the stomata where their CO² levels drop and their O² levels rise.
By storing the CO² in their mesophyll they are still able to produce ATP with minimal photorespiration.

CO2 emissions? or any kind of emissions for that matter, mostly comes from volcanoes.

Please cite your source for this info. Do not include bogus blog sites or such, rather science journals.
I do not think there is enough volcanoes spewing gas to even compare to the other emissions produced in the world, in fact your uniformed banter is more gas spewing than all the active volcanoes. http://www.usgs.gov/faq/list_faq_by_...wer.asp?id=409

Ssshhh… He’s a True Believer. They tend to get really annoyed when pesky little things like facts get in their way.

Originally Posted by Electric_EyE

Arrie, you are not an idiot, I wanted to see how many idiots there really are

Is this what you want to say about other's ?

"Idiot" was originally created to refer to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning"

or this

In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation, or a very low IQ level, as a sufferer of cretinism, defining idiots as people whose IQ were below 20 (with a standard deviation of 16).

Cool Thanks. I think you need a smiley.

kv

Originally Posted by arrie

Aha...
Back to what this thread started discussing, fuel from waste, using my favourite principle, pyrolysis or hydrous pyrolysis.

Check out this link:

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/art...hp?a_id=138875

I see they also refer to another company in the UK, something for Nigel. These guys actually "employ" Prestige thermal, a South African co.

Can you believe it. Can a South African take the lead in something for a change.
Wonder if they will offer me a job?

Go at least take a look at what their doing.

I wanna know.

And their is a little swimmer that's making some waves in the headlines at the Olympics.


Go South Africa........ kv

Originally Posted by arrie

I just got their contact details, mmmmmm

Maybe I'll share a bit of my ideas, and they'll offer me a good job.

Really, who's that, Ryk Neetling maybe. All I can think of.

I'm not much for names of people it was late I was tired.

But I think it was this one I ripped it of the net.

Penny Heyns is undoubtedly one of South Africa’s favourite daughters and arguably the greatest female breaststroke swimmer of all time.

In March 1996 Penny Heyns broke the World Record for the ladies 100m Breaststroke at the SA National Championships in Durban.
At the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Penny Heyns again broke the World Record in the women’s 100m Breaststroke and won the Gold Medal in both the women’s 100m and 200m breaststroke. In doing so she also broke the Olympic Record in the Women’s 100m and 200m Freestyle.
During the Goodwill Games held in New York in July 1998 Penny Heyns stormed into new world records by becoming the first World Record holder in the 50m Breaststroke in a time of 30.95. Previously this distance had not been recognised by FINA for official World Records only previous best times were recorded.
As if that was not enough Penny went on to break even more world records including the ones she had set. At some point she broke 8 New World Records in 11 consecutive swims.

I could be wrong but this sounds like her.

I think that living of shore with the fastest Great White Sharks on the planet would make anybody a faster swimmer.


kv

Speaking about CO2 Emissions, How much CO2 is produced by the 8 Billion people in this world that just breath?

And no one is stopping population increases.