Posted on 04/02/2008 4:57:52 AM PDT by Need4Truth
Australia on Wednesday began pumping carbon dioxide underground to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, using a technology that locks dangerous gases deep in the Earth.
Officials opened a plant in southern Victoria state that they said would capture and compress 110,231 tons of carbon dioxide from industry emissions and then inject it 6,500 feet underground into a depleted natural gas reservoir.
Australia is one of only a handful of places that uses the technology, known as geosequestration, and environmentalists immediately criticized the project as a token gesture that distracts from the bigger goal of getting industry to slash emissions. "The project has a very important role in demonstrating the technical and environmental feasibility of geosequestration to Australia and the world and preparing the way for its widespread application," Peter Cook, the project's chief executive, said in a statement
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Does it make their groundwater fizzy?
The oil companies have been doing this for years, they use carbon diaoxide and their gas they injec into oil fields to retrieve the oil.
Wow! someone else copies our actions and gets credit for it.
Only they don’t get the oil.
This is slashing emissions you morons!
What about a factory to mount angels on the heads of pins?
Associated Dinosaur Press - 70,000,000 B.C.. The High Council today announced plans to pump billions of kargs of methane and fecal matter into underground caverns in an attempt to prevent further warming of the earth. This material is expected to turn into harmless, useless hydrocarbon sludge over the course of millions of years and be of no further trouble to our planet.
In other news, astronomers at the T. Rex institute have spotted a new asteroid. It is not yet clear what path it is on, but it should pose no threat for at least 5 million years.
to feed the insatiable appetite for the ALBORE FLYING MACHINE...I need jet fuel...I said, I need more jet fuel...get the common folk to pony up more jet fuel or off with their heads.
There I fixed it.
“Australia is one of only a handful of places that uses the technology, known as geosequestration, and environmentalists immediately criticized the project as a token gesture that distracts from the bigger goal of getting industry to slash emissions.”
Environmentalists: “What? A viable option that may take away from our goal of killing capitalism? We can’t have that!”
Once they get rid of CO2 emmission, I wonder what the trees and plants will do to stay alive??? Photosynthesis just started you know. George Bush invented it.....
20 years from now we’ll be hearing of mysterious deaths due to Erf pharts.
“...would capture and compress 110,231 tons of carbon dioxide from industry emissions...”
Just how do they separate the Industry emissions from other emissions, say, people exhaling??
If a worker exhales on the job, does that count as an “industrial emission” as well??
And of course it is no surprize that the Enviomental Wackos would denounce anything that might give them less reason to bitch...
Moving on...
This project is small-scale. 110,000 tonnes.
This enhanced oil recovery project at Weyburn, Canada will sink 26 million tonnes of CO2 and enhance oil production by 155 million barrels.
http://www.ptrc.ca/weyburn_statistics.php
Ridiculous!
If the article was dated April 1, I might have thought it was a hoax. This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard of this week. Plants ‘breath’ carbon-dioxide and ‘exhale’ oxygen. Let nature take care of it. What maroons.
They could try planting trees on about 2/3 of the barren outback.
In other news, astronomers at the T. Rex institute have spotted a new asteroid. It is not yet clear what path it is on, but it should pose no threat for at least 5 million years.
This is probably the most funiest post I have ever read, congratulates.
LOFLMAO
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