Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
I do not have an issue with "GLOBAL-WARMING" as it is called. After all I have mowed all the way into November for the last 2 years. My issue is it is man made. Seeing a volcano eruption has more of the stuff we are trying to reduce than all of what man has created in our existence.
There is some truth in that,
However a volcano does not emit chloroflourocarbons into the atmosphere.
And the metals refining industry makes volcanos pale into insignificance.
I was a foundry metallurgist. While mostly I was in casting, I did spend 4 years with Sims who were refiners of scrap.
We pumped hundreds of tons of HCl & HF into the air every week, something that nature does not do.
The furnaces all burned bunker oil so again hundreds of tons of CO2 every week.
You need to go to a cast iron foundry during a carbon boil to get a real feel for just how much pollution we pump out daily.
Now us "civilised" folk don't like walking through smelly brown air so so we moved all these dirty factories to places like Brazil, India, The Phillipines & now China.
Then we did "pretend" stuff like putting emission restrictions on vehicles right down to joke things like emissions on lawn mowers to make it look like we were contributing to the clean up.
Now this worked for a while but there is only one atmosphere and all the schitt we put up in South America eventually gets to the USA & Australia.
At a public lecture I went to many years ago the speaker gave a good example.
"how many people can piss in your pool before it becomes a sewer"
"how many people can fart in a room before you have to leave it"
"the planet is a big room with a pool in it but we can not go outside for some fresh air"
It is all about balance.
One person pissing on a lemon tree will make it grow vigerously & produce abundant fruit, two people will make it even better, but 10 people pissing on it will kill it.
What nature does, like volcanos nature can handle as it has been doing it for millions of years.
What we do is a bit harder for nature to handle as we have only been doing it for thousands of years and we have gotten way out of balance with nature.
So it is either kill 75% of the people on the planet or clean up our own mess.
And the sun gets hotter every year and we get closer to it every year so the average temperature goes up every year.
But this happens very slowly and the planet adapts to it.
When it happens faster than the planet can adapt, we have the problem that we have right now and it will get worse unless we get our act cleaned up.
We are simultaneously creating more CO2 while at the same time removing the stuff that converts the CO2 into the stuff we breathe.
Even the biggest blithering idiot should be able to see that if we keep this up you get to the point that we are making more CO2 than the planet is making O2.
The very first time I profiled a furnace burner was 1978 and we did the calculations based on 23% oxygen which was the content in Sydney at sea level.
Now days they profile at 18% and most new plants have tanked oxygen because the air can not provide enough oxygen for the amount of heat needed.
