In recent years some hearty souls have ventured to Carneys Point to better understand the mysterious machinations of the carbon cycle as recently reported in the local news releases as well as several UFO journals.
The people of Carneys Point are under no delusions in their understanding that under terrestrial conditions, conversion of one element to another is very rare. Therefore, the amount of carbon in Carneys Point is effectively constant. Thus, processes that use carbon must obtain it somewhere and dispose of it somewhere else. The paths that carbon follows in the environment make up the carbon cycle. For example, plants in all of Salem County draw carbon dioxide out of their environment and use it to build biomass, as in carbon respiration or the Calvin cycle, a process of carbon fixation. Some of this biomass is eaten by animals, whereas some carbon is exhaled by animals as carbon dioxide. Allotropic considerations notwithstanding, the carbon cycle is considerably more complicated than this short loop; for example, some carbon dioxide is dissolved in the oceans; dead plant or animal matter may become petroleum or coal, which can burn with the release of carbon, should bacteria not consume it.
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