Posted on 03/21/2007 12:17:10 PM PDT by BamaCharm
2007 Power Lunch Series
Geological Carbon Sequestration
What will we do with CO2? When, at What Cost and Where?
May 1, 2007 Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building, UW-Madison
WPUI is pleased to present the "Geological Carbon Sequestration" Power Lunch seminar with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin and the UW Energy Institute.
Program Summary The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute will host a seminar to explore a variety of carbon sequestration issues, including whether Wisconsin is capable of capturing carbon and storing it in geologic formations, if and when this might be an option, and what environmental risks geological carbon sequestration may create.
Program Background In preparing for greenhouse gas limitations, institutions around the country are researching and piloting ways to capture and store carbon. Geological carbon sequestration is potentially both a short and long-term storage option, aimed at reducing the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Researchers are currently focusing their efforts on devising storage methods. Some of the options currently being considered are to use it for enhanced oil or coal bed methane recovery production, and for injection into saline formations.
In a “Power Lunch” format, this seminar will:
• Explore carbon sequestration • Review storage technology options • Discuss carbon sequestration regional initiatives, the Department of Energy's research program, and public-private partnerships that focus on carbon sequestration • Review of Wisconsin 's geological options in terms of potential feasibility for carbon sequestration in the state • Include an open panel discussion on policy frameworks that make these types of advances possible, and regulatory and legal issues that remain barriers to deployment.
What's any of this got to do with horses?
/just kidding
Am I required to wear my Power tie?
The liquified CO2 could be sold to oil companies to aid in the extraction of more oil? Oh, the irony!
I still think the whole idea is incredibly stupid.
Why can't it be "sequestered" in stuff like carbon fibers, diamonds and such.........
Sell it to coca-Cola and Pepsi... How DO they make their carbonated beverages anywhose?
lets see, at 5mg per burp times 6 burps per cola times 3 colas per day time 365 times 100 million people... I cam guessing that coke and Pepsi are TOTALLY responsible for global warming dure to carbon diaxide emissions.
Thats 3,285,000 Kg per year. I am TOTALLY making this up!!!
Maybe they can 'buy' carbon credits (I'll sell them some)
Um, let's see. No problem-o.
Any sequestration undertaken by private industry runs the risk of taking too much CO2 out of the atmosphere, tipping the balance toward letting too much heat escape with the consequent climatic risks that implies. (Hey! It's easy to be green, no matter what Kermit says!)
We'll need to form some think tanks, conduct studies and start writing our grant proposals for the funding this important issue demands.
There's a reason Chicken Little runs around in circles. They aren't tied into warming per se, that's the panic de jour. Any panic will do.
I propose that get as much cO@ out of the atmosphere as humanly possible and pump it all down into the bottom of the ocean; since that's where most of it is coming from, in the first place. Diffusing it into the sea at deep water locations would show the greenies that we understand their need feel good while accomplishing next to nothing. Yeah, it'd be an economic treadmill, but it's the least damaging solution I can think of. Excess would, of course, be available to the oil industry for the aforementioned purpose.
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This is incredibly stupid.
The Earth already does this, on a scale that beggars the imagination. The oceans contain almost 100 times as much carbon as the atmosphere. Much of this carbon gets trapped in carbon rich compounds which sink to the bottom.
Over long periods of time, huge amounts of carbon accumulate on ocean floors, all over the world. These carbon deposits eventually get pushed beneath continental plates, through plate tectonics. The ocean floor rock (with its huge carbon load) eventually gets all the way down to the mantle, where it melts, and stays trapped below the Earth's crust, for a very long time.
Can anyone explain to me just what the heck is "carbon sequestration"?
This scam will cost every American family an additional $2,000 annually, according to economists at the Wharton School.
Oh, and 2 to 3 million jobs will be destroyed.
Carbon sequestration is removing carbon in the form of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Trees do this. The ocean does it. Industrial plants that produce compressed gases do it.
My faviorite form of carbon sequestration involves putting it in solution in tightly sealed containers in my basement, with an occasional test release to make sure everything is working properly.
I figure I can store several cases of sequestered carbon. Where do I get my carbon credits to buy more cases?
It's what we used to call a "Dump" or landfill where trees, leaves, lawn clippings, and so on were buried preventing them from breaking down and returning to the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.
We are now required by the environmentally enlightened to pay to have these materials sent to a composting facility where bacteria converts them back into Carbon dioxide and Methane.
Go Figure
Isn't that just a fancy name for "coal mine"?
You can have my club soda when you pry it from my..............
They have one agenda, and one agenda only, and it doesn't have anything to do with climate.
Now I understand. Thanks for the info.
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