Posted on 12/25/2022 10:24:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
Proposed carbon capture projects continue to draw controversy and public backlash in Louisiana, but Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards remained adamant this week that the practice is a “safe” way to reduce the state’s industrial emissions.
About 50 Louisiana residents traveled to Baton Rouge on Tuesday to speak in opposition to a global gas supply company’s application for a test well permit in Lake Maurepas, where they plan to store carbon dioxide underground, The Advocate reported.
Most speakers at the hearing demanded that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources pause approval of Air Products’ project until the company releases an environmental impact statement detailing exactly how it would affect the lake and surrounding area.
But as residents, lawmakers and activists debated the project, Edwards voiced his support of carbon capture.
“As I’ve said many times, I believe in the safety and the science that underlies carbon capture and sequestration. I know it is an essential part not just to our climate action plan here in Louisiana to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, but really the plans for our country and the world,” Edwards said during his monthly call-in radio show Wednesday. …
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Every time I read an account of the ramblings of one of these simpletons, the “net zero” date seems to get farther away
What happens in say 30 years when these things leak out and fill the atmosphere with a rush of carbon? Who gets the death penalty? Who pays the fines? Isn’t it time to hold these people responsible who make predictions that are false and cost people millions or billions? They should be forced to have some stake in the game.
Store CO2 underground? If these morons believe CO2 is so deadly, they should push to ban carbonated beverages. I betcha none could state the percent of CO2 that is present in the air.
Another scam so the globalists get more control over everyone. With this ruse, they can regulate everyone’s house and car, and control industrial production globally by regulating emissions. Eff ‘em!
My proposal is to liquify the CO2, load it into solar-powered rockets, and send it off into space. Let the space aliens worry about it.
Send me a few hundred million, and I will get to work on it immediately.
Here is the profit basis. Corporations get paid in some form to engage in a complex and totally worthless activity to conduct co2 ‘mitigation projects.
In October, ExxonMobil, CF Industries and EnLink Midstream entered into an agreement to remove 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — equivalent to what would be produced by nearly 431,000 gas-powered cars driven for one year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The project aims to capture emissions from CF Industries’ ammonia production plant in Donaldsonville — the top greenhouse gas industrial emitter in the state, according to a 2021 state report — and store the carbon underground in Vermillion Parish. Officials estimate the startup date to be in 2025.
If you really want to capture CO2 just plant more trees...
When I first heard the concept of burying CO2 underground, I couldn’t believe how mind-numbingly dumb an idea that was. But to see how seriously officials take it, is quite depressing. Sometimes it feels like the America I knew really is lost.
Remember the Cameroon event when thousands of people died (cattle, wildlife too) from a CO2 release from the lake? One would be hard pressed to find another situation where area property values sink more than sequestering carbon dioxide - and more windmills are not the answer as they pollute in many ways.
These mentally challenged fools have no idea on the amount of CO2 volcanoes release either, these idiots ought to start there.
It would make more sense to simply inject the “excess” captured carbon dioxide into the deep layers of the ocean, where the temperature remains at a steady 38 degrees Fahrenheit, and would stay in that layer, until the carbonic acid formed had reacted with all the various minerals dissolved in the ocean water, forming carbonates and bicarbonates. Bound up in compounds. many of which would precipitate and sink to the floor of the ocean, would reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released from the ocean in the future.
Underground storage of carbon dioxide is just pretty chancy.
CO2=PLANT FOOD
He's right, you know.
We should definitely plant more trees, for many reasons.
73% of what they are capturing is fresh oxygen. If they weren't big liars, they would call it oxygen capture.
Let’s fix the carbon problem once and for all. Nuclear energy is to be used for everything except powering motor vehicles. Interim solution will be to continue using clean coal extraction and processing for heating homes and clean oil extraction and processing for powering motor vehicles.
Once a proof of concept is developed for this, 5 cities and 5 suburban/rural areas will be selected for a 5 year test to monitor success before reaching point it out. Washington DC and surrounding areas will be included to give political figures, lobbyists and support a stake in it.
Oddly that would work but why get rid of plant food?
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