ERSATZ AND GLOBAL WARMING

Denied access to world markets by the Royal Navy the Germans,during world war two, developed a number of artifical substitutes.It was then that the word ersatz
crept into the English language largely as a term of derision.

One of those ersatz products, however, was oil and yet another was rubber.With these substitutes the Germans contrived to run an economy and conduct a highly mechanised war for 5 years.

Some may be enraged to learn how oil was produced.It involved the combination of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane.The attentive will note that two of these constituents
are the notorious greenhouse gases which are in overabundant supply and likely to remain so.

Unlike the carbon capture scheme on which vast amounts are to be spent this oil production is proved technology. It is operated today in South Africa for the production of diesel.It could provide oil without the bother of sucking it out of the ground and transporting it around the world.

The search is on for a sustainable source of energy without which human society as we know it cannot exist.What could be more sustainable than those basic constituents of our atmosphere
naturally generated, freely available and allegedly out of balance.

At the end of the war the synthetic oil plants were dismantled and transported to the USA presumably for safe keeping.

If the danger of global warming is such as the authorities would have us believe surely the interests of the oil industry cannot be allowed to stand in the way of such a simple solution to the most serious problem facing humanity.
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