A windfarm north of Limon, June, 2103. (Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file)
Re: “Utilities, Colorado formulating actions for Clean Power Plan,” Aug. 5 Business story.
This story on reducing CO2 emission levels leaves out one important fact: An average fossil-fuel burning, internal combustion engine puts out between 13 and 14 percent CO2 in the exhaust. That is also one way your mechanic determines how well your car runs. Outside that level, either way, indicates a problem.
Now, think of over a 100 million cars on the roads every day putting out that level of CO2. Of the five primary gases in the exhaust of your car (CO, CO2, HC, O2 and NOX), we can reduce all but CO2 through modern methods. The problem is CO2 must be there for the engine to run correctly.
The United States is the largest contributor of CO2 in the world, with the Chinese rapidly catching up.
When you add in the fact that several nations around the world rely mainly on oil production to fund their countries, the problem only exacerbates itself.
This will not be an easy problem to solve.
Steve Fickler, Wheat Ridge
This letter was published in the Aug. 13 edition.
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