canadiantreeman
TreeHouser
I'm reading a book by Callum Coates, called Living Energies. Excellent read, and I've unearthed a great little tidbit I thought you fellow tree folk might appreciate. The following was formulated by a man called Walter Schauberger in the 1970's.
During the course of its life, this 100 year old tree:
a) Has processed and fixed the amount of carbon-dioxide contained in 18 million cubic metres of natural air in the form of about 2500kg of pure carbon (C).
b) Has photochemically converted 9,100kg of CO2 and 3,700lit of H20.
c) Has stored up circa 23 million kilogram-calories. (a calorific value equivalent to 3,500kg of hard pit coal).
d) Has made available for the respiration of human and beast 6,600kg of molecular oxygen (O2).
Every tree is therefore a water-column and if such a column, which continually supplies and recharges the atmosphere with water, is cut down, the this amount of water is lost.
f) Thereby fixing a mechanical equivalent of heat equal to the calorific value of 2,500kg of coal.
g) Has supplied a member of the consumer society with oxygen sufficient for 20 years, and its nature is such, that the larger it grows, the more oxygen it produces.
In view of such achievements, who in future could value this tree merely for its timber?
The combustion of 100 litres of petrol consumes about 230kg of oxygen. That is, after a trip of barely 30,000km (9.6lit/100km), this tree's entire 100 year production of oxygen has been squandered.
If a person chooses to breathe for 3 years, to burn 400lit of petrol or heating oil, or 400kg of coal, then the production through photosynthesis of 1 tonne of oxygen is required.
1 tonne of O2 = the O2 content of 3,620 m3 of air (+15c at 1 atm)
The photosynthetic production of 1 tonne of oxygen necessitates:
a) The building up of 0.935 tonnes of C6H12O6 (carbohydrate).
b) which process requires 1.37 tonnes CO2 (carbon-dioxide) and 0.56 tonnes H2O (water).
c) The transpiration of 230-930 tonnes H2O.
d) Light energy equal to 527 x 10^8 quanta (v = 440 x 10^12) which represents 3.52 million kilocalories.
During the course of its life, this 100 year old tree:
a) Has processed and fixed the amount of carbon-dioxide contained in 18 million cubic metres of natural air in the form of about 2500kg of pure carbon (C).
b) Has photochemically converted 9,100kg of CO2 and 3,700lit of H20.
c) Has stored up circa 23 million kilogram-calories. (a calorific value equivalent to 3,500kg of hard pit coal).
d) Has made available for the respiration of human and beast 6,600kg of molecular oxygen (O2).
Every tree is therefore a water-column and if such a column, which continually supplies and recharges the atmosphere with water, is cut down, the this amount of water is lost.
f) Thereby fixing a mechanical equivalent of heat equal to the calorific value of 2,500kg of coal.
g) Has supplied a member of the consumer society with oxygen sufficient for 20 years, and its nature is such, that the larger it grows, the more oxygen it produces.
In view of such achievements, who in future could value this tree merely for its timber?
The combustion of 100 litres of petrol consumes about 230kg of oxygen. That is, after a trip of barely 30,000km (9.6lit/100km), this tree's entire 100 year production of oxygen has been squandered.
If a person chooses to breathe for 3 years, to burn 400lit of petrol or heating oil, or 400kg of coal, then the production through photosynthesis of 1 tonne of oxygen is required.
1 tonne of O2 = the O2 content of 3,620 m3 of air (+15c at 1 atm)
The photosynthetic production of 1 tonne of oxygen necessitates:
a) The building up of 0.935 tonnes of C6H12O6 (carbohydrate).
b) which process requires 1.37 tonnes CO2 (carbon-dioxide) and 0.56 tonnes H2O (water).
c) The transpiration of 230-930 tonnes H2O.
d) Light energy equal to 527 x 10^8 quanta (v = 440 x 10^12) which represents 3.52 million kilocalories.
