"Peter Bright" <hobart_elf@...>

wrote:


>This week the radio told me, if I recall correctly, that each monster
>flare in China burns gas into the sky to 100 metres high and that
>there's hundreds of such flares. Each flare burns enough energy in just
>one day to power Perth (WA) for one year. China wastes this energy
>beacause it has no way of processing it. I must ask "Why not cap it?"

>Yesterday on TV it was stated that satellite images revealed 17,000
>forest fires burning simultaneously in the Amazon basin. There's huge
>amounts of illegal logging and clearing going on there.

Please correct
>the above statistics if I've got them wrong. It makes Uncle Joe's
>struggle to get out of his lounge chair to switch the TV off to conserve
>its standby power look rather insignificant. It seems to me that
>nothing we do here in Ausralia will have much effect on what reckless
>countries elsewhere are doing. Is the picture as dismal as I've
>portrayed?
>
>

So what program was that??? - Radio national??? - what are the Chinese
flaring - propane or methane?? - either way they could compress and store.
How many flares?? - it is really scarey.

Remember - the short term is all that counts - who gives a damn about the
future...

H