@@CarlosSanchez-en6mr how i count through history class... "ugh just 3 more 20 minutes, each 2 10 minutes, so i only need to get through 5 minutes 12 times.
Don't think of this as reasons of having "no life". Take this opportunity to enrich yourself with knowledge of the mundane that we all take for granted :)
4 года назад
You just saw a coal hopper empty in mere seconds. Now your life is complete.
Yet it only took a whole lot of mechanical engineers, rail workers and miners to make it all work and it still is. Industrial machinery is all based on the numbers on "paper" computers now, to which it can be fabricated, The Captain coal shovel said it all until it's demise from a fire.
I work here, and before you ask: yes, this does fall straight down and get funneled right into Satans @$$... Yes How else do you think we keep the fires going?
Below the car is a shaker. It shakes the coal out of the train car. Below the shaker is a conveyer belt, the belt rolls the coal out into a pile in the yard that is moved by a giant loader. I know this because I had to reline a shaker before. It was a high of 20 that day and a total white out. I had to use a big wheat burner to constantly melt the snow and dry the metal to get my weld to stick. A few hour job took the whole day that day, but I will never forget it.
@@CumminsTurbo4 Indeed, but the guy in the original comment stated otherwise and has worked with a shaker, I have never - therefore my "I could be wrong".
My Dad ran the "shakers & pits" at P&C Docks in Conneaut, OH. He worked his up from there to "Stacker/Reclaim wheel" to Dozers to Ship Loader and on to Hulletts before he retired. There was a "look-out" area where you could park and see the whole operation of the docks. Spent many hours sitting there watching various operation and knowing my Dad was somewhere down there, making the money to support us.
Hey I live in Ashtabula about 10 minutes from conneaut. Know exactly where you’re talking about! Sat on the lookout many times and been in the hullit that is on display there. Small world
the time of the emptying process in totally unimportant -what counts is how long it takes to place the car into the right spot until the next car gets into the right spot
@@lackofsanity9329 In the UK we do the same at power stations, 1/2 mile an hour, the train keeps rolling. This is old footage but 09:00 onwards shows it ruclips.net/video/h3esA-JldCo/видео.html
Have you ever seen the Norfolk and Southern coal loading operation in Norfolk. They inverted two 100 ton cars at a time ,then bumped them through automated switches back to the empties yard. One of the colossal loaders would fill the barge I worked on at 3000 tons an hour.
In my case, many years ago, we used bottom dump cars like this and a shaker that pushed up against the side of the car. Worked like a champ when the coal was dry or at least not frozen. The shaker was crazy noisy and was pretty rough on the cars. We had a thaw shed for frozen cars, sometimes taking several hours on nat gas burners to get the car to a point where we could shake it out. Even then, we had large chunks of frozen coal over the hoppers to physically break up. Rotary dumpers are much better, most big plants used them to keep up with the burn rate. Don’t miss my col days one bit.
What's scary is how far I had to go down before somebody asked about that green thing on top... The average human being has the intellectual curiosity of a piece of livestock.
My dad worked at South East Coal processing plant in the 70's. We lived three miles away and I can remember sitting on the back porch and listening to the "shake house" empty out cars.
SIDA or they could use the coal for their families and power things and save money for food in a realistic situation, but you only care about an overused joke
"cycle time" is critical when planning industrial operations. It's not just the time the coal goes out, but the time it takes to move the car and stage it.
I live in the tri-state area of oh,wv and ky. I've seen a train engine many times transporting 100+ cars of coal filled to the brim like this one. I've seen a couple of dump stations like this one from the road but never up close. Really interesting.
Takes about five minutes to load each car and in some areas, they spray clear latex over the top to keep the coal dust down (I've seen it and times it).
Such a simple idea too.... In the UK hoppers used to have 'bash plates' that workers would hit with 9ib hammers to loosen the coal (or iron ore). Hard work!
I was hopperman for awhile at the LTV steel Cleveland Coke plant. Opening pocket doors and lowering the exact same shaker down on the car. Also controlled what bin the coal would go into in the Mixer building. lousy job in the winter on midnights......#1 and @2 coke plants are gone now.
I used to do this very job, drive heavy coal trains with 100 T hoppers, we could empty the whole train of 19 hoppers in around 15-20 mins, filling them again about the same, good days.
I always see the loading of coal trains never the unloading part pretty neat to see 4-5 bay cars getting unloaded, I really only ever see is top dumps or rotary cars. That shaker reminds me of the one we use at my job, does the same thing essentially shakes coal out of a hopper but our hopper is stationary and it doesn’t hold 100 tons
It's called a "100 ton Hopper"by the railroads.They can bottom dump(Like this one)or "Rotary Dump"by simply flipping them over two or three cars at a time.
Actually, that is what I want so I can put it on my model railroad. Nothing is as real as the real thing. When I was a kid, that request got me some strange looks. It was hard to explain to the adults.
I take comfort in knowing that I'm not the only person who clicked on a nearly two minute RUclips video for the sole purpose of watching a 30 second event.
A friend of mine lives in western Penna.told me there is tons of coal along the train tracks due to coal car leakage,he told me there are days where people are out there pi cking it up to supplement Their winter winter supply.
What I love about this is that those guys have never worked in An environment where the temp is -15 degrees! it’s bloody cold and the coal is stuck to the sides of the wagon and the vibrator won’t break it loose. And your using spud bars to break it lose. :)
I grew up in philly on the river.and the coal cars would come down the track solo.and be picked up whole and dumped into a big funnel into a waiting ship.put back on the tracks .pushed off towards the water.would go up a steep ramp and switch to a return track back to the yard.all day long..
Would be interesting to know how this is done. A brief description in the show notes would have been helpful. We’re no more enlightened after seeing this than before.
A railroad employee tells the train when to stop. Then, a power company employee uses a small wand filled with D batteries (I kid you not) and taps a "pickup shoe" (looks like a metal flap) on the side of the car. That disengages the door locks. Air supplied from the train locomotive forces the doors open. The green device is the "shaker" which shakes coal stuck in the car loose. The coal is dumped in a pit where mechanical feeders send the coal to a large pile, which is then sent on elevators to the crusher house to be crushed into a fine powder. The power plant here is in the process of being demolished, so this video being suggested by YT certainly brought back some memories.
+Douglas Frazier We already have trillions and trillions of those "machines". upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Puriri_tree.jpg/1280px-Puriri_tree.jpg
mahnarch can they keep up with the conversion of fossil fuels into carbon dioxide back into carbon compounds again - that's all I worry about - seeing as the human race is harvesting those botanical carbon-sequestering "machines" and making furniture out of them - it's just about the balance, carbon out/carbon in, which way are we going
How's that couch feel at the end of a work day? Sleeping in that bed real good? Putting those cotton fiber clothes on every morning and drinking that fiber filtered coffee under your wood built house/apartment... No one is immune from fiber use. Just the same as "no one is vegan" (if you use chapstick, you're using a cow product). Beavers also harvest wood fiber. How come no one protests them? Also, trees*, bushes*, shrubs*, cotton*, switchgrass*, palm ferns*, lichen*, bamboo*, perennials* and dandelions* all grow back. They can keep up. They're doing fine. In fact, they want to know how you are doing. *all breathe CO2
+mahnarch not sure I get your point - are we planting as many trees as we are burning tons of coal? Most reports say that large tracts of forested areas are being cleared for development - so forests maybe cannot make wood fast enough to keep up with CO2 production. I have read estimates that this is so, that we take carbon out of the ground and put it in the air faster than plant life can put it back again.
I'm sitting on the toilet as I watch this (no lie). I feel a strange connection to this video.
TheDudeofDudes now we have a strange connection
TheDudeofDudes Now all three of us have a strange connection
This video has tied us all together through an internet portal. A portal which leads to the shitter. Someone call NASA.
dude Im on the toilet too ahahahah XD
Now I'm in the toilet wtf
30 seconds my ass! That was more like half a minute!
30 seconds... half a minute... wait-
Oof
Bitch, it was more three 10 seconds
@@CarlosSanchez-en6mr how i count through history class... "ugh just 3 more 20 minutes, each 2 10 minutes, so i only need to get through 5 minutes 12 times.
Sashwath Prakash same😂
I’m like, there is an hour left
That mean 6 10min
Or 12 5min
The things you find in your suggested video box
yes guy lmao!!
Yup
at least I watch train vids regularly
On the bright side, you could've learned something else new for the day lol. At least I did
Yep
Well that was satisfying. See y’all in another 3-7 years!
cya then dude
we will probably forget we even saw this video and think it’s cool the next time 💀
Catch ya later
See ya soon then
Cya
This video should be titled "train car sits and does nothing for 2/3rds the video, then empties in seconds!"
I have no interest in your demand.
then don't whine in the comments.
They should have explained what was happening. Vibrators, opening doors, etc.
Yeah dude fuck that I gave it a 👎
Oof
It’s all for stockings. Merry Christmas 🎄
Oh fuck
Santa incorporated
The fun industrial side of the North Pole. I always wanted to see Norman Rockwell paintings of the Elven Mines.
Haha this is Santa's workshop and we all on the naughty list this year
RUclips and these random ass recommend videos are the reason I have no life
Isaiah Kane I had no life once, but that was before I was born.
RUclips and random ass recommendations are my life
Try searching on RUclips "Driving thru the ghetto". Endless...
Don't think of this as reasons of having "no life". Take this opportunity to enrich yourself with knowledge of the mundane that we all take for granted :)
You just saw a coal hopper empty in mere seconds. Now your life is complete.
The scale at which industrial machinery operates always astounds me
Yet it only took a whole lot of mechanical engineers, rail workers and miners to make it all work and it still is. Industrial machinery is all based on the numbers on "paper" computers now, to which it can be fabricated, The Captain coal shovel said it all until it's demise from a fire.
First 20 seconds could be used as a horror movie soundtrack!
mibars Yeah, like Jaws!
holy shit you are the best kind of right
It really could.
i’m here to give u your 700 like
@@jaimeleiva4865 And I'm here to give you your 1st :)
I work here, and before you ask: yes, this does fall straight down and get funneled right into Satans @$$... Yes
How else do you think we keep the fires going?
What does the green crane-like thing on top do?
@@tanithrosenbaum
Stabilize the wagon.
@@tanithrosenbaum
Vibrator
Holy crap if someone falls into that thing...
@@lfeco that’s what I was thinking, but it doesn’t seem to do much vibrating. I guess probably just poor video quality though. Thanks!
Wanted to see the valves close. Disappointed
Khalifah Sultan me too!
What valves? It's a rail dump.
@@mephInc think he meant the doors
Fantastic!
@@jadenjacobs8667
The doors are opened and closed manually via a gear reduction
Below the car is a shaker. It shakes the coal out of the train car. Below the shaker is a conveyer belt, the belt rolls the coal out into a pile in the yard that is moved by a giant loader. I know this because I had to reline a shaker before. It was a high of 20 that day and a total white out. I had to use a big wheat burner to constantly melt the snow and dry the metal to get my weld to stick. A few hour job took the whole day that day, but I will never forget it.
I think the device that is lowered down onto the car is the shaker in this case, but I could be wrong.
@@aandykfit's pretty obvious. Ain't it 😂
@@CumminsTurbo4 Indeed, but the guy in the original comment stated otherwise and has worked with a shaker, I have never - therefore my "I could be wrong".
My Dad ran the "shakers & pits" at P&C Docks in Conneaut, OH. He worked his up from there to "Stacker/Reclaim wheel" to Dozers to Ship Loader and on to Hulletts before he retired. There was a "look-out" area where you could park and see the whole operation of the docks. Spent many hours sitting there watching various operation and knowing my Dad was somewhere down there, making the money to support us.
+Mike Struchen With a few beers in hand I bet ;)
Mike Struchen that was a nice story. Next Father's Day you should remind him, if you haven't told him.
Hey I live in Ashtabula about 10 minutes from conneaut. Know exactly where you’re talking about! Sat on the lookout many times and been in the hullit that is on display there. Small world
joesph h Aye I’m from Ashtabula too. Guessing you are graduated by now but if not what school you go to.
Mike Struchen Ever checked out Conneaut Arches? It’s right next to the train yard and it’s a great cliff jumping spot.
the time of the emptying process in totally unimportant -what counts is how long it takes to place the car into the right spot until the next car gets into the right spot
The coal ports in Australia empty one of those in about two seconds while they are moving they just drop it out the floor of the wagon
@@lackofsanity9329 In the UK we do the same at power stations, 1/2 mile an hour, the train keeps rolling. This is old footage but 09:00 onwards shows it ruclips.net/video/h3esA-JldCo/видео.html
Funny how something that's totally unimportant takes up a significant portion of the total time you speak of and thus is important.
Exactly. There is a process.
I expected a 30 second video 😓
Bet they can't empty ten box cars in three hundred seconds.
You were not wrong for that.
If you expect 30seconds from a minute and 47 seconds long video you deserve to be disappointed.
lets all take a moment to appreciate the coal that never left the truck
Thats a train
@@slavvy.mp4884 That's funny.
(but maybe not entirely accurate)
Yes, despite the odds they didn't give up and held on.
just skip to 0:59
Samuel Range saw this comment at 0:58
Are you circumcised?
Upvote
Helped me out
@@noahredd5117
Are YOU circumcised? I can't believe this is actually a thing...
These Factorio graphics really look amazing for 2010.
This video has me questioning what I'm doing with my life
hahhahahaaa,,,, good one
Any updates on your life?
Hi
Are you still living son?
Are you still alive mate?
This is more “satisfying” than those annoying “odDlY SatISFyInG “ videos tbh
Whoever invented gravity is a genius!
That would be God !
What did Issac Newton say when the apple hit his head?
"There's a knighthood in this, if only I could figure out 'why'".
@@rosssteuck4989 He doesn't exist.
@@kaspervestergaard2383 prove it
@@justinmartin8887 By what using reasoning? People like you wouldn't believe me. Would be too much common sense for you.
Have you ever seen the Norfolk and Southern coal loading operation in Norfolk. They inverted two 100 ton cars at a time ,then bumped them through automated switches back to the empties yard. One of the colossal loaders would fill the barge I worked on at 3000 tons an hour.
that's crazy!!!
Huh, you're like a crackhead youtube version of puckicho
30 seconds feels a lot like 1:47
random pikapetey here lul
Ok
I know you posted this 4 years ago but it feels like I just met you out in public or something.
From 1:08 onward is sounds like a jet ready to take off.
This is kinda satisfying
Emptying starts at 0:56
In my case, many years ago, we used bottom dump cars like this and a shaker that pushed up against the side of the car. Worked like a champ when the coal was dry or at least not frozen. The shaker was crazy noisy and was pretty rough on the cars. We had a thaw shed for frozen cars, sometimes taking several hours on nat gas burners to get the car to a point where we could shake it out. Even then, we had large chunks of frozen coal over the hoppers to physically break up. Rotary dumpers are much better, most big plants used them to keep up with the burn rate.
Don’t miss my col days one bit.
Reminds me of when I handed my wife my bank card
Loool 😂😂😂
wife bad now laugh
😂😂😂😂
LOl
What's scary is how far I had to go down before somebody asked about that green thing on top... The average human being has the intellectual curiosity of a piece of livestock.
It's the coal train baby!
Tidiest Flyer WOOOOOOO!!
My dad worked at South East Coal processing plant in the 70's. We lived three miles away and I can remember sitting on the back porch and listening to the "shake house" empty out cars.
*kids in Africa could've eaten that coal.*
kids in africa could have eaten you
kidz in africa could have eaten your comment
SIDA or they could use the coal for their families and power things and save money for food in a realistic situation, but you only care about an overused joke
SIDA... Or Kentucky
coal is not edible
"cycle time" is critical when planning industrial operations. It's not just the time the coal goes out, but the time it takes to move the car and stage it.
I live in the tri-state area of oh,wv and ky. I've seen a train engine many times transporting 100+ cars of coal filled to the brim like this one. I've seen a couple of dump stations like this one from the road but never up close. Really interesting.
Kenova?
The coal layout is so SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH
Therapist: powering America doesn’t exist powering american can’t hurt u
Powering America:
Takes about five minutes to load each car and in some areas, they spray clear latex over the top to keep the coal dust down (I've seen it and times it).
I never knew that about the vibrating unit on the top. How about that?! Thanks
I found that interesting as well
Such a simple idea too.... In the UK hoppers used to have 'bash plates' that workers would hit with 9ib hammers to loosen the coal (or iron ore). Hard work!
That is a blower I think.
MrSomeone \Tom/ Pretty sure that's a vibrator. They're not all penis-shaped.
nagualdesign That's what she didn't say.
I was hopperman for awhile at the LTV steel Cleveland Coke plant. Opening pocket doors and lowering the exact same shaker down on the car. Also controlled what bin the coal would go into in the Mixer building. lousy job in the winter on midnights......#1 and @2 coke plants are gone now.
Meanwhile Cities: Skylines trains: "Here's a shovel"
Cool this is the Freightcar America Auto Flood Car my dad helped design these
weird the things youtube thinks i would like. this one they got right. i couldn't figure out what that green thing was for at first
lol same
Jay Groom thats a vibrator, keeps the haul shaking so the coal can drop quickly and smoothly.
I have three vibes, who needs men?
Women who want to reproduce. Fool.
Wow! Where does the third one go?
I used to do this very job, drive heavy coal trains with 100 T hoppers, we could empty the whole train of 19 hoppers in around 15-20 mins, filling them again about the same, good days.
*Happy reunion everyone! I love the way youtube algorithm keeps us united!!*
I love RUclips. Today I watched some guy test out new train wheels, how to lad an Apache's machine gun, 82nd all the way, and this.
Never knew 30 seconds last one and a half minutes.🤯
Smarter every day.
Coal train was a musical genius. Pouring it all out on stage as always.
"Anyone seen the new guy?"
"He was told to count the coal as it came out."
"And he thought the best place was under it?"
"Yup."
I always see the loading of coal trains never the unloading part pretty neat to see 4-5 bay cars getting unloaded, I really only ever see is top dumps or rotary cars. That shaker reminds me of the one we use at my job, does the same thing essentially shakes coal out of a hopper but our hopper is stationary and it doesn’t hold 100 tons
And that's step one of how electricity is made!
I hear similar machine sounds at night at the mill near my house. Now I know what it is, thank you!
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My RUclips recommendations:
It's called a "100 ton Hopper"by the railroads.They can bottom dump(Like this one)or "Rotary Dump"by simply flipping them over two or three cars at a time.
save a few lumps for the Christmas stockings
Actually, that is what I want so I can put it on my model railroad. Nothing is as real as the real thing. When I was a kid, that request got me some strange looks. It was hard to explain to the adults.
What is the machine that was lowered on top of the car? A shaker?
That took 1.46 to empty... ;)
Phantomthecat actually the coal started going down at 1:00 so it took 47 seconds
Trainandgames Reviews Actually you would factor in the time it took to get the car in position. So fuck off
tyler bonser Actually you wouldn't because you haven't started unloading. So fuck off
tyler bonser Actually you wouldn't because you haven't started unloading. So fuck off
Jason White says you. your so triggered rn
I take comfort in knowing that I'm not the only person who clicked on a nearly two minute RUclips video for the sole purpose of watching a 30 second event.
nice video of the coal emptying out.
me: enables ray tracing in minecraft
computer: REDIRECT POWER BOYS
local power company: 0:59
"Hmm, 30 seconds? The only way might be if it opens a trap door belo- oh it really has it"
It is called as track hopper system of coal unloading. The waiting time is for making connection to pneumatic gates
wow that is absolutely insane.
Now I finally know why those train cars have those triangle shapes on the bottom.
It takes just under 2 minutes, if we're being honest.
The power plant where I started my working career had 6 of those going at once. It reset my definition of LOUD!
What a good succ 😂👌🔥👀💯
Moboooop yeah i'll try to jump "ff" a cliff
Yes, he'll try to jump "ff" a cliff
Yo dude. He has a good comment and you're basically telling him to "stfu" am I or am I right?
AirForce576 what has this become?
Man, you must be as dull as a rock if you have no sense in humor.
Mom: Time to get up for school!
Me: I dont wanna!
Mom: ok bet. *straps the bed to the shaker*
HaHaHaHaHah !
This has to be the oldest video I have ever been recommended... 11 years wow, and I remember a time before internet hahaha
POGS
The device that they lower onto the car, does it shake the car to move the coal down? Or did it just go over my head?
PSSST! LIAR! That took nearly 31 seconds. And, I gave you a lot of leeway.
A friend of mine lives in western Penna.told me there is tons of coal along the train tracks due to coal car leakage,he told me there are days where people are out there pi cking it up to supplement Their winter winter supply.
Why is this in my reccomendeds
I wonder the same, i literally haven't watched anything close to what would relate to this video
***** I mean, I watched a few train videos on this account, but that was back in 2014.
***** You know too much
I just want to know what @inconspicuous chair said.
What I love about this is that those guys have never worked in An environment where the temp is -15 degrees! it’s bloody cold and the coal is stuck to the sides of the wagon and the vibrator won’t break it loose. And your using spud bars to break it lose. :)
So that's what that thing is with the electric motor that they lowered onto the top . . . .
Welcome to episode 532 of _Why is This in my Recommended?_
I like this method of emptying cars more than the tilting pendulum method. It looks safer, faster with less moving parts …
I thought the car was gonna rotate like how they tip it sometimes lmao
I grew up in philly on the river.and the coal cars would come down the track solo.and be picked up whole and dumped into a big funnel into a waiting ship.put back on the tracks .pushed off towards the water.would go up a steep ramp and switch to a return track back to the yard.all day long..
Slower than I expected
I wish my old Lionel dump car worked this well!
Steve’s inventory be like:
I'm a train and I approve this video choo choo!!
why is this on my recommended? this was published 6 years ago
8**
Now it's 8 for me
@Big Bill O'Reilly stfu
9 years*
So basically you are only interested in videos published in the last 2 hours whatever the content.
Damn Shawty those trains sure do empty fast
Damn shawty
1.5 mins at 140 car trains so just around 3 hrs
Kreig Dernier can almost load them quiker then that.
How many torches did they make with all that coal?
Kk I watched it now get off my recommended
At the coal mine they loaded faster, takes about 2 seconds to drop it in , the cars never stop just move at a fast walking pace .
love me some coltrane
haha
What is the top clamping thing doing ? Vibrate the car so all coal gets out ?
Exactly the same as when I got my salary.
What's the green thing with the motor? Does it shake the car to help get the coal out?
Nobody:
RUclips algorithm:
Yooo my man, check this video of a fucking train from 10 years ago. That shit fire
COAL TRAIN RHYMES WITH WHOLE GRAIN BABY! WHOOOOOAH!
Would be interesting to know how this is done. A brief description in the show notes would have been helpful.
We’re no more enlightened after seeing this than before.
A railroad employee tells the train when to stop. Then, a power company employee uses a small wand filled with D batteries (I kid you not) and taps a "pickup shoe" (looks like a metal flap) on the side of the car. That disengages the door locks. Air supplied from the train locomotive forces the doors open.
The green device is the "shaker" which shakes coal stuck in the car loose.
The coal is dumped in a pit where mechanical feeders send the coal to a large pile, which is then sent on elevators to the crusher house to be crushed into a fine powder.
The power plant here is in the process of being demolished, so this video being suggested by YT certainly brought back some memories.
What is the Grapple for ??
Steady it no static electricity,Shaker ?
i must be watching some weird ass shit to have this recommended to me
My mom: if you don't behave good you'll get coal in Christmas
Me on Christmas: 0:58
Really. Christmas. Coal. on my recommended videos... is RUclips and Santa trying to tell me something...
what's the thing that was settled on top of the car? Blower? Shaker?
this is why the concept of machines to capture CO2 from the atmosphere would not be feasible, we are too busy putting it back in again
+Douglas Frazier We already have trillions and trillions of those "machines". upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Puriri_tree.jpg/1280px-Puriri_tree.jpg
mahnarch can they keep up with the conversion of fossil fuels into carbon dioxide back into carbon compounds again - that's all I worry about - seeing as the human race is harvesting those botanical carbon-sequestering "machines" and making furniture out of them - it's just about the balance, carbon out/carbon in, which way are we going
How's that couch feel at the end of a work day? Sleeping in that bed real good? Putting those cotton fiber clothes on every morning and drinking that fiber filtered coffee under your wood built house/apartment...
No one is immune from fiber use. Just the same as "no one is vegan" (if you use chapstick, you're using a cow product).
Beavers also harvest wood fiber. How come no one protests them?
Also, trees*, bushes*, shrubs*, cotton*, switchgrass*, palm ferns*, lichen*, bamboo*, perennials* and dandelions* all grow back.
They can keep up. They're doing fine. In fact, they want to know how you are doing.
*all breathe CO2
+mahnarch not sure I get your point - are we planting as many trees as we are burning tons of coal? Most reports say that large tracts of forested areas are being cleared for development - so forests maybe cannot make wood fast enough to keep up with CO2 production. I have read estimates that this is so, that we take carbon out of the ground and put it in the air faster than plant life can put it back again.
I can't look up the numbers (green earth vs CO2 vs time) without this box going away.
So..uhm.. I bought another house plant today. I'm helping. :)
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