May 31, 2007 8:48 AM PDT

Bush wants global meeting on climate change

U.S. president calls for 15 nations to set goals for greenhouse gas reductions by end of next year, but favors tariff changes to carbon dioxide caps.

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What about asphalt?
Wouldn't the vast amounts of paved areas and roads, mostly paved with black asphalt, contribute significantly to global warming, by absorbing vast amounts of solar energy?

But I don't see any movement to curtail that, or at least switch to a far lighter pavement coloring.
Posted by bluemist9999 (1018 comments )
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Snow
Well a good point for asphalt is it lasts about half the life of concrete roads, but at 1/4th the cost.

Also, its heat keeps snow in some states off the roads as the temperatures on it remains above freezing. And thirdly, asphalt can only absorb so much heat like anything else. But the planet can absorb ALOT of heat.

But my main point however is you are misunderstanding the idea of "global warming" which is the warming of the planet due to an increase and unbalance of natural gases such as carbon dioxide which reflect heat on its way out of the atmosphere back down.
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Water Miracle -The Only Divine Gift of Tremendous Power Storage & Reserve
Every Country in the World has a great responsibility to control the further release & emission of Green House Gases from Fossil Oil/Fuels and to look for the really clean & cheap alternative fuels to replace Petrol/Diesel/Coal/Natural in order to reduce the incidences of Global Warming that will cause hardship & deaths in many Natural Disasters and adversed climatic changes.

Obviously Water holds a better promise as the Alternative Fuel

Alternative fuel for thought:-

In our school days we have learnt in Physics that it is possible to split water into its basic atomic components with the application of electricity but even many great scientists overlooked the fact that Water is the better and safer storage of power, a Tremendous Amount of Power is stored efficiently, the promise water has as an alternative fuel has been unlimited using a simple process of using electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen only when required, where both the hydrogen & oxygen (HHO) gases power to drive a car's internal combustion engine will also recharge the battery that originally did the electrolysis splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen and also the hydrogen gases will be only produced when needed just before starting the car's internal combustion engine and the electrolysis process will be switched-off when switching off the said car's engine at the same time. This said hydrogen gases-run engines will run cars, SUVs, trucks, buses, trains and airplanes so cheaply and successfully that no other alternative fuels would ever be needed. The same principles will also be applicable to run the present Coal or Gas Fired Power Stations which will save most money from fuel costs and they can reduce their present tariffs by 80% with hydrogen gases (HHO) as their final fuel source, the released of Greenhouses gases, CO2 & NO2, would also be eliminated. But these technologies will be suppressed owing to big business money and political scams from Oil Producers and other vested interests. They might even commit murder to suppress these inventions from gaining popularity and flourishing successfully.

Please watch related report of the Water Car Inventor:- Links Here:-

<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yRn4IAsrU&#38;mode=related&#38;search" target="_newWindow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yRn4IAsrU&#38;mode=related&#38;search</a> =


<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVevvgM3ho" target="_newWindow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVevvgM3ho</a>
Posted by K A Cheah (240 comments )
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Water Miracle -The Only Divine Gift of Tremendous Power Storage & Reserve
Every Country in the World has a great responsibility to control the further release &#38; emission of Green House Gases from Fossil Oil/Fuels and to look for the really clean &#38; cheap alternative fuels to replace Petrol/Diesel/Coal/Natural Gas in order to reduce the incidences of Global Warming that will cause hardship &#38; deaths in many Natural Disasters and adversed climatic changes.

Obviously Water holds a better promise as the Alternative Fuel

Alternative fuel for thought:-

In our school days we have learnt in Physics that it is possible to split water into its basic atomic components with the application of electricity but even many great scientists overlooked the fact that Water is the better and safer storage of power, a Tremendous Amount of Power is stored efficiently, the promise water has as an alternative fuel has been unlimited using a simple process of using electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen only when required, where both the hydrogen &#38; oxygen (HHO) gases power to drive a car's internal combustion engine will also recharge the battery that originally did the electrolysis splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen and also the hydrogen gases will be only produced when needed just before starting the car's internal combustion engine and the electrolysis process will be switched-off when switching off the said car's engine at the same time. This said hydrogen gases-run engines will run cars, SUVs, trucks, buses, trains and airplanes so cheaply and successfully that no other alternative fuels would ever be needed. The same principles will also be applicable to run the present Coal or Gas Fired Power Stations which will save most money from fuel costs and they can reduce their present tariffs by 80% with hydrogen gases (HHO) as their final fuel source, the released of Greenhouses gases, CO2 &#38; NO2, would also be eliminated. But these technologies will be suppressed owing to big business money and political scams from Oil Producers and other vested interests. They might even commit murder to suppress these inventions from gaining popularity and flourishing successfully.

Please watch related report of the Water Car Inventor:- Links Here:-

<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yRn4IAsrU&#38;mode=related&#38;search" target="_newWindow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yRn4IAsrU&#38;mode=related&#38;search</a> =


<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVevvgM3ho" target="_newWindow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVevvgM3ho</a>
Posted by K A Cheah (240 comments )
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Study some physics
and some chemistry while you are at it. You can't violate the law of conservation of energy. The splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen is an endothermic reaction which requires energy and there is energy loss. Also if you are using that your engine to run an generator, even at 100 percent effiecency, which is impossible, all of the energy generated by combustion would have to be used to run the generator and you would have no energy left over for motive power.
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