Does everyone know that man cannot create oxygen?
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I will give you a design brief: Design something that makes oxygen, self replicates, creates micro climates, changes colour with the seasons, accrues solar energy makes complex sugars, stores water, takes in carbon dioxide and fixes nitrogen?
Then knock millions of them down and make paper out of them.
An environmental issue or a political agenda? I don't understand how you can separate the two. Have you seen the Youtube clips by Vandana Shiva, her conference about Trees 1/4 ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzr7w4hoc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3hfpw6q...
I will listen carefully and with an open mind if you can separate the enviornmental issues with political agendas after you have watched these.
RE: Michael's additional information: So you are saying we need to grow more trees and plankton? We should support nature's solutions, not man's? That you believe in Earth Care, People Care and Fair Shares? So you are a Permaculture supportor at heart? Fantastic. Welcome to the club.
Man cannot create carbon either...
Well... actually we can and do crate a little of each. a percentage of the products of fission will be carbon... and oxygen. Uranium splits into everything from Hydrogen up to Protactinium. Probability is not all that high to get Carbon or Oxygen... but we get some.
Not enough of either made so far to bother weighing.
Man cannot yet create anything. But we are growing increasingly adept in disassembling things and re-arranging the parts.
We can make gaseous oxygen by many chemical reactions. There is an enormous amount of oxygen in the rocks around us. Sandstone is in great part silicon dioxide, all you have to do is strip off the two oxygen atoms as O2 and release into the atmosphere. Keep the silicon for microcircuits.
Common iron ore has a lot of oxygen in it, usually 4 oxygen atoms and three iron atoms, so we take the oxygen away and put it in the atmosphere, and we are left with very pure iron for construction purposes.
Water has two hydrogens and one oxygen. Take the oxygen out and release it into the atmosphere, and you have two hydrogens left, to run new car engines.
So, I think most know man cannot create, but we can find Oxygen all over in common things.
I do agree tho that most people are not given enough science and technical training to understand the issues involved and to sort fact from fiction from political distortions of both.
So, do we enjoy or bemoan the politics we see as enlightened members of these forums, or do we make efforts to educate people so they can comprehend facts and sort them from fiction?
Start a ball rolling, either way as suits your fancy.
No, some still believe in perpetual motion machines. Think we can efficiently convert CO2 to O2 and a hundred other things.
They think a steam-powered vehicle would be a good idea, or a compressed air vehicle.
It's quite amazing, I think the saying ignorance is bliss must be true.
Here I thought little pink and purple fairies flew around and "made" oxygen.
Yes we can create oxygen. Use electricity to break down the structures of hydrogen and oxygen You will produce both hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. We've got lots of water to use.
Are you sure? With all the fission/fusion/cyclotrons out there, I'd be surprised if SOMEBODY hasn't created a few atoms. But yes, most elemental oxygen was created long ago in a star that has long since exploded into literal stardust. But what does this have to do with politics OR environmentalism?
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