[Greenbuilding] Carbon and Nitrogen taxes - was drying clothes

[Bob Waldrop]

If nitrogen in the atmosphere is a problem, then obviously we need more alfalfa and clover.

Bob waldrop, OKC

From: sanjay jain 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:56 AM
To: Green Building 
Subject: [Greenbuilding] Carbon and Nitrogen taxes - was drying clothes

Since Nitrogen may be the bigger problem, do we need a Nitrogen tax too? Maybe a sulfur and fluorine tax?? 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Global_warming_potential




  Atmospheric lifetime and GWP relative to CO2 at different time horizon for various greenhouse gases. Gas name Chemical
      formula Lifetime
      (years) Global warming potential (GWP) for given time horizon 
      20-yr 100-yr 500-yr 
      Carbon dioxide CO2 See above 1 1 1 
      Methane CH4 12 72 25 7.6 
      Nitrous oxide N2O 114 289 298 153 
      CFC-12 CCl2F2 100 11 000 10 900 5 200 
      HCFC-22 CHClF2 12 5 160 1 810 549 
      Tetrafluoromethane CF4 50 000 5 210 7 390 11 200 
      Hexafluoroethane C2F6 10 000 8 630 12 200 18 200 
      Sulphur hexafluoride SF6 3 200 16 300 22 800 32 600 
      Nitrogen trifluoride NF3 740 12 300 17 200 20 700 



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From: elitalking <elitalking at rockbridge.net>
To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Drying Clothes


Amen to Carbon Tax for simplicity of getting to the point and getting the non caring to participate in the solution. 
Eli




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