Comments on: The EPA's Answer to Vehicle Emissions Modeling: MySQL http://gigaom.com/2009/12/30/the-epas-answer-to-vehicle-emissions-data-mysql/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Guenther Eigentler http://gigaom.com/2009/12/30/the-epas-answer-to-vehicle-emissions-data-mysql/#comment-29443 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:40:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48407#comment-29443 Dear Mr Hermans

I apologise for having not replied sooner to you awarding comment and your wishes. Thank you so much.

Yours faithfully
Guenther Eigentler

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]]> By: Wilfredo Hermans http://gigaom.com/2009/12/30/the-epas-answer-to-vehicle-emissions-data-mysql/#comment-29441 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:56:45 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48407#comment-29441 I was very pleased to find this site.I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoyed every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.
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]]> By: Guenther Eigentler http://gigaom.com/2009/12/30/the-epas-answer-to-vehicle-emissions-data-mysql/#comment-29440 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:54:45 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=48407#comment-29440 Dear Madam
Dear Sir

I am Austrian by birth and have been quite an active environmentalist at home and abroad for over 35 years. (Results → poor).

The ideas you will be given hereafter have – as far as I know – not been expressed by any other person yet. Now please do not think that I am someone that wants to make himself listened to or someone that is – as the English would say – a Jack of all trades. I rather consider myself quite a normal person, who at times is confronted with an idea that sounds fascinating. The topic of the case I would ask you to take into consideration is Global Warming. I assume you will be sighing now, whispering: “Not again!” …. You may even look out of the window – which exactly is the instance my flux of ideas sets in.

What can you see out there? I assume a number of people, houses, vehicles. Right? Many vehicles? The better. – Now let´s hang on to that last-mentioned image a bit. Most of those cars out there need petrol to run or some other form of energy. If you multiply their number, its total will conjure up all the vehicles you find on Earth. Quite an inconceivable number! They all need gas produced from the material within our planet. It may, therefore, be logical to conclude that big holes result in there over a long period of time. Right? What can be assumed happens to those holes? Are they filled by some other material, most likely, water? If this assumption of mine is correct, it will explain why so few places on earth are not flooded nowadays despite fears concerning the melting of the polar ice. (If it was incorrect, a number of cities would presently experience a fate similar to the one New Orleans had to cope with some time ago.)

Now, let´s go on to the next point in question.

Water is not of the same consistency as the material extracted from within the Earth to run cars and other vehicles, or heat houses, make plastic, etc.. Does this fact influence the Earth´s rotation? Change its course? Speed? Gradient of axis? Cause earthquakes by implosion of materials bordering the holes? (Have there lately been any scientific findings regarding these possibilities, findings that could not be explained sufficiently?)

I guess you will sigh again because of the great number of questions that may result in a lot of hard work given rise by an overtly curious Austrian teacher.

Yours sincerely

Günther Eigentler

6410 Telfs

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