Posted on 03/05/2010 9:36:07 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-a-comprehensive-federal-strategy-carbon-capture-and-storage
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release February 03, 2010
Presidential Memorandum -- A Comprehensive Federal Strategy on Carbon Capture and Storage
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE THE SECRETARY OF LABOR THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY THE CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
SUBJECT: A Comprehensive Federal Strategy on Carbon Capture and Storage
For decades, the coal industry has supported quality high-paying jobs for American workers, and coal has provided an important domestic source of reliable, affordable energy. At the same time, coal-fired power plants are the largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and coal accounts for 40 percent of global emissions. Charting a path toward clean coal is essential to achieving my Administration's goals of providing clean energy, supporting American jobs, and reducing emissions of carbon pollution. Rapid commercial development and deployment of clean coal technologies, particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS), will help position the United States as a leader in the global clean energy race.
My Administration is already pursuing a set of concrete initiatives to speed the commercial development of safe, affordable, and broadly deployable CCS technologies. We have made the largest Government investment in carbon capture and storage of any nation in history, and these investments are being matched by private capital. The Department of Energy is conducting a comprehensive clean coal technology program including research, development, and demonstration of CCS technologies and is pursuing important international cooperative initiatives to spur demonstration and deployment of CCS. The Environmental Protection Agency is developing regulations that address the safety, efficacy, and environmental soundness of injecting and storing carbon dioxide underground. The Department of the Interior is assessing, in coordination with the Department of Energy, the country's geologic capacity to store carbon dioxide and promoting geological storage demonstration projects on public lands. All of this work builds on the firm scientific basis that now exists for the viability of CCS technology.
To further this work and develop a comprehensive and coordinated Federal strategy to speed the commercial development and deployment of clean coal technologies, I hereby establish an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (Task Force). You shall each designate a senior official from your respective agency to serve on the Task Force, which shall be Co Chaired by the designees from the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Task Force shall develop within 180 days of the date of this memorandum a proposed plan to overcome the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years, with a goal of bringing 5 to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016. The plan should explore incentives for commercial CCS adoption and address any financial, economic, technological, legal, institutional, social, or other barriers to deployment. The Task Force should consider how best to coordinate existing administrative authorities and programs, including those that build international collaboration on CCS, as well as identify areas where additional administrative authority may be necessary. The Co Chairs shall report progress periodically to the President through the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.
Ultimately, comprehensive energy and climate legislation that puts a cap on carbon pollution will provide the largest incentive for CCS because it will create stable, long-term, market-based incentives to channel private investment in low carbon technologies. My Administration's new CCS strategy will pave the way for this energy transition by identifying and removing barriers to rapid commercial deployment and by providing greater legal and regulatory clarity. This will help to spur private investment in CCS in the near term -- investment that will create good jobs and benefit communities.
This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
The Secretary of Energy is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
Uhhh. Does he never quit? He’s like “The Night of the Living Dead”.
Oh really...climategate science is then ignored of course this isn't about science as we all know..it's filling gov. coffers with cash flow...wish I had the skill sometimes to just go off the grid!
“Uhhh. Does he never quit? He’s like “The Night of the Living Dead”.”
He’s impervious to reality!!
What do you mean on the internet? this link goes to fr. or did you mean your souce was the internet..just wondering.
It means just that ON THE INTERNET.
The link is an index that goes to a FR SUMMARY of all article with that keyword.
correction: ...all articles with that keyword.
Obama and the Democrats are so far removed from reality it is unbelievable. We will remember in November!
I had Ham Operator friends when I lived in NM that did 25 year ago.
Solar power, wind generator, no A/C, wood stove and a generator only used when they washed clothes.
He was a MD and did his billing with home-brew computer powered by his solar panels and batteries.(I had one like it, but AC power supply)
They were wonderful people ( I accused them of being semi-hippie drop-outs_but they were not)
I could accept the life style change, but my wife would not adjust.
If I had no TV, I would not miss it.
The Web, is a totally different thing. I would be in trouble without it.
But we have a local phone coop that is pretty sharp. They furnish TV feed, Phone and DSL over the same fiber feed line.
If we cannot uncover the hidden history of Obozo and remove him from office, we may all be seriously looking at something like this.
My ancestors did it when they settled this area, 110 years ago.
“He’s impervious to reality!!”
They just don’t seem to be “getting it”.
It will be explained very clearly on November 2nd.
Yeah you’re right! LOL! I know I know. I used to be able to paste with all links and paragraphs intact but doesn’t now. Just upsets me because I have accumulated a bunch of great articles challenging physics of AGW. I figure you guys already know — and besides my doggie needed a run — so I just pasted.
Anybody who doesn’t know or is interested I’ll make effort to show you what I got.
Gates and others have developed solar powered computers they are now distributing worldwide to those in 3rd world countries and backwoods/jungle areas where there is no infrastructure. I watched a show on this, amazed to see people in shanties and dirt floors..hauling water etc. yet they had computers!
No, I'm not the hippie type either...but our family use to have a great log cabin we built on a mountain in Bradford County, way in the backwoods over dirt roads, with grass growing in the center of the road. Ha! Such a wonderful experience being there...the living room was mostly picture windows so we often saw bear, deer and all kinds of animals walk thru the property. The fireplace was built from flagstone rock found there...
The log cabin built to accommodate eight..bunk room and master bedroom...and kitchen. We use to sell ski-doos and would take them up there for a weekend in the snow. It was a whole different world...I loved it! But we did have electric and sewer etc. even that far out in the wilderness. I could have lived there without a problem!
I think it helps not being a city minded person. I have lived in several for a time but always return to smaller communities...which is my preferance over city living.
For decades, the coal industry has supported quality high-paying jobs for American workers, and coal has provided an important domestic source of reliable, affordable energy. At the same time, coal-fired power plants are the largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and coal accounts for 40 percent of global emissions. Charting a path toward clean coal is essential to achieving my Administration's goals of providing clean energy, supporting American jobs, and reducing emissions of carbon pollution. Rapid commercial development and deployment of clean coal technologies, particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS), will help position the United States as a leader in the global clean energy race.This initiative will be characterized by the same kind of success associated with his other initiatives. IOW, he's out to kill coal. Thanks Cindy.
I hate to say it, but actual carbon capture and storage is dangerous to all life on earth.
I’ve seen estimates where it would be feasible to capture ALL of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Of course, that would seriously decrease the capacity of the earth to support life. It probably wouldn’t wipe out life, but there would be die-offs, and CO2 released from the dead organisms when they decay would become available for other organisms to use. Growth would then continue at the lowest CO2 concentration that allows plants to extract CO2 from the air. There would be less life than now, because, overall, there would be less carbon.
I guess that we’re making good progress on the first step: raising public awareness that the climate is going to change, and we little humans have little or no impact on that. The second step should be to start shouting from the rooftops: “CO2 is essential for life!”
There are only two possibilities that I can come up with...
..... 1) They are truly clueless and don't get it, setting themselves up for the surprise of their lives in 2010 and 2012
.....or.....
..... 2) They know exactly what they are doing and do not intend to give up power in a fair election. They intend to set up some sort of leftist dictatorship.
I'd like to think it is #1, but my inclination is #2.
I really can't believe these people are THAT stupid. The only answer is intentional destruction of our country and way of life with an iron grip on power afterward.
I live in a town of less than 700 people. There are roughly 5,000 people in the entire county. (many more cattle than people.)
I could easily and comfortably make the transition, and would love the tech challenge of making it work.
I helped build the first solar powered repeater I ever saw. You could not purchase one commercially. It was installed on a 9,000 ft. mountain top in NM, about 2,500 ft. about average terrain. The repeater, cavaties, batteries and controller were housed in 2 55-gal barrels buried in the ground to stabilize night/day temp shift. The entire system consumed 50 ma quiescent current in standby mode. The only thing above ground was a 40 ft. tower, Phelps Dodge Super Stationmaster antenna and the solar panels. Incredible coverage. There were places I could access the system from 90 miles away.
With a little though and engineering, a person could easily build an earth burmed home with solar electrical and windmill gravity feed water system that would function off-the-grid. Without giving up the creature comforts.
Home brewed wind generators can easily and cheaply be constructed. Have had thoughts about building them from truck alternators. Replace the stator windings with permanent magnets to increase the efficiency. The major problems would be mechanical and design of the blade assembly. (stressed aluminum or lay-up carbon composite)
TF
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