Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!space From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (Brett Slocum) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: fossil fuels, space station Message-ID: <860306150404.964287@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 10:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: HI-MULTI.860306150404.964287 Posted: Thu Mar 6 10:04:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 04:37:50 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 > ... increase in > plant life so that the carbon dioxide can be incorporated in biomass Plants do not store CO2 in tissues. Pllants take CO2 and H2O, add sunlight for energy, add chlorophyll as a catalyst, and they produce O2 and carbohydrates, which they store. They do absorb some O2 at night, but plants are net producers of oxygen. --Brett Slocum