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YES, the americans did know about CO2 at least as early as 1941. I didnt try to look that up but instead stumbled upon it while reading something else, and reme
by mlatu 4y ago
YES, the americans did know about CO2 at least as early as 1941. I didnt try to look that up but instead stumbled upon it while reading something else, and remembered your comment, so here you go:
> Ford’s 1941 bioplastic Model T was made of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel, wrote the New York Times on February 2, 1941. The car ran on ethanol made from hemp or other agricultural waste. Ford’s experimental model was deemed a step toward the realization of his dream to “grow automobiles from soil,” wrote Popular Mechanics in their December 1941 issue and reduce greenhouse gases—already known to occur by then.
https://themeaningofwater.com/2020/10/03/henry-fords-hemp-cars/ https://themeaningofwater.com/2020/10/03/henry-fords-hemp-ca...
- thombat 4y agoUnfortunately that "Popular Mechanics" reference appears to be false: the December 1941 issue [1] did feature an article "Pitch Hitters for Defense" which included Ford's car experiments, but the entire focus was on supplanting the use of metals to free capacity for the military use. Carbon dioxide, greenhouse effect, or any environmental discussion is quite absent. (The advertising in the issue is interesting since even just before Pearl Harbor there's a lot of military references. My (very limited) understanding was that isolationism was strong but apparently far from pacifism) [1] https://archive.org/download/PopularMechanics1941/Popular_Mechanics_12_1941_text.pdf https://archive.org/download/PopularMechanics1941/Popular_Me...