...But hydrocarbon nrg sources provide 65-percent of their power!
Posted on 06/28/2023 4:02:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The hyperbolic language of the climate change crowd has been wearing thin ever since Al Gore’s dire predictions from 2006 have inconveniently not materialized.
Fox Business News recently interviewed a South Dakota farmer named Jared Bossly. A company called Summit Carbon Solutions is laying the groundwork to run pipelines through five Midwestern farming states for the purpose of capturing, compressing, and transmitting CO2 from ethanol processing facilities to a final resting place deep below the ground, somewhere in North Dakota. Fox News reports that more than 80 eminent domain lawsuits have been filed in South Dakota for this purpose. Mr. Bossly’s wife (he was not home at the time) recorded footage of the occupants in an unmarked pickup truck with Louisiana license plates which parked, unannounced, on their property. The occupants entered the workshop on the premises near the farmhouse, rooted around a while, then proceeded to a more remote area of the property and began surveying.
Summit Carbon tried to get a restraining order on Bossly and get him cited for contempt of court for allegedly threatening to kill the surveyors -- a claim that Bossly vehemently denies, saying he only spoke to the surveyors for a few seconds on the phone. The contempt charges were dropped, but the surveying was approved by a judge.
In May, 2022, the Biden Administration announced a $3.5 billion program to capture carbon pollution from the air, and the money has been flowing copiously. A quick search on LinkedIn for companies engaged in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects will reveal dozens of companies, most of which are U.S.-based. They are well-staffed and generously funded with millions of up-front taxpayer dollars.
Summit Carbon Solutions does have its share of proponents -- among them ethanol producers, heads of Chambers of Commerce, and politicians
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The problem is that CO2 is not a pollutant and this is just a huge waste of money.
Why would ‘green-earthers’ want to starve all the plants by sequestering the very stuff they need to live?
That is a special kind of stupidity!
1 North Dakota is a conservative state.
2 The Communists want to grab as much productive farmland as they can.
3 This is a guess ,but an educated one, mr Bossley prolly had a Trump sign on his lawn at some time and may even be active in his church
The puzzle prices are falling into place.
“Huge waste of money” IS the objective of the program. The construction of unreliable and relatively limited-use windmills and solar panels is merely another facet of this huge waste of money scheme. None of this actually improves productivity or equitable distribution of the goods and services resulting from productivity, but it does kind of choke off capitalistic growth, by denying funds and financing to innovation and enterprise. Add to the intentional waste generated, regulations that are restrictive and add still more cost to the fewer consumer products that are created, and the proportions of the massive deceit and swindle become gargantuan, the massive gorilla in the room.
Just putting most of the world on a wartime footing. And for what? To appease the appetite of the oligarchs for still more power? To engage in what is essentially a blood sport as the great masses scrabble for some small crumb?
Some people just cannot stand prosperity, an if there is not enough adversity in their lives, they have to invent it.
...But hydrocarbon nrg sources provide 65-percent of their power!
Cloward-Piven scheme: overwhelm the system to collapse it, then replace with something that you control. It’s the Marxist way!
Can’t remember where, but in Europe where with much fanfare a carbon capture plant was built, later down the article, seemingly unaware of the contradiction said that carbon was piped to neighboring green houses and sold to bottling companies for their products.
Lol what capture
“That is a special kind of stupidity!”.
Not sure it’s special as there is a lot of these grandious schemes being proposed. The world Economic Forum wants to reduce the car population by 75%, for example.
To me the best way to bury carbon is by burying plastic waste in landfills. Each molecule of inert plastic contains up to 90% carbon. It kills two birds, as the saying goes, and we’re already doing it.
Grandiose
The problem is that the left are insane.
Looks like if people who talk about CO2 being a problem had paid attention in high school(if they attended)there would be less of a problem now.
A pipeline is being built in southeast Louisiana now to pump CO2 underground. CO2 + H2O= Acid.
what could possibly go wrong?
Since CO2 is soluble in water and the oceans cover a majority of the Earth's surface, the oceans sequester more CO2 than any other CO2 sink.
Because of the inverse solubility of CO2 with temperature, the colder the oceans get, the more CO2 they can absorb.
Conversely, when the oceans get warmer, they expel CO2.
Atmospheric CO2 therefore follows global temperatures, it does not cause them.
You can see the yearly global atmospheric CO2 fluctuation as the oceans warm and cool with the seasons in the NOAA graph below.
The "settled science" that CO2 causes "climate change" is criminal sophistry.
Furthermore, CO2 contains oxygen, which is necessary for life.
The corn ethanol industry has an Achilles heel, the production of ethanol creates large quantities of the dreaded carbon dioxide. This scheme to capture that CO2, compress it and send it pipelines to be buried in the bowels of the earth in North Dakota is another government funded boondoggle, just like the production of corn ethanol as a motor fuel itself. According to the dogmas of the Climate Change cult religion little Greta Thunberg should be protesting at ethanol plants rather than power plants.
Has anyone considered the environmental consequences of pumping CO2 deep into the earth? Could North Dakota be soon rattled by earthquakes or could a blowout of CO2 send a deadly cloud suffocating all in its path? I doubt anyone of these ethanol promoters and the whores of the ethanol lobby in Congress have given this the slightest consideration.
The inconvenient truth is the vast majority of what they are trying to capture forever is oxygen, 73% by weight, not carbon. Honestly, it should be called oxygen capture, but Demonrats lie about everything because they have to. As George Floyd said in his famous last words: “help, I can’t breathe.”
Farmers should dig several deep holes with the backhoes they likely have, and shut up about it. “Oh how we burned in the camps”....
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