Great news! Even for Dacias...
Great news! Even for Dacias...
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lionrampant

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Friday 10th September 2010
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/10/carbon_inf...



ElReg said:
The new boffinry comes from Steven Davis and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution. They've worked out how long all the current cars, trucks, buses, ships, airliners, coal-fired power stations, combi boilers etc will last before needing to be replaced and totted up all the resulting atmospheric carbon.

As the graph shows, all of the gear now existing can be run until it wears out, and CO2 will stay well below 450 parts per million (ppm) - the amount that the UN says we must stay below in order to avoid damaging levels of global warming.