Posted on 11/06/2021 4:12:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. Coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy.
Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies, but coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy. Artificial carbon capture is an unnecessary waste - the grasslands, forests, crops and continental shelf of Australia sequester far more carbon dioxide than Australia emits from all energy, transport, agriculture and mining sources.
Australia has 440 million hectares of grasslands – that 4.4 M sq km is larger than Europe’s total area of 3.5 M sq km.
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In an orchestrated crisis the solution is known before the crisis is invented. This is what they do when the communist believers want to control the means of production.
If “they” really wanted to sequester carbon, they’d quit telling us to recycle paper.
One of the reasons they tell us to recycle paper is that they claim when digging deep into old landfills, they find old newspapers that are still readable.
That’s sequestered carbon.
...the grasslands, forests, crops and continental shelf of Australia sequester far more carbon dioxide...
When plants grow, they pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and, when they die and decay, they release that carbon back into the atmosphere.
The only true “carbon sequestration” by living beings is the production of shells by oyster and clams and the like.
This concept is born of a mass delusion.
Not exactly.
That is sequestration - albeit only temporary.
[...] The only true “carbon sequestration” by living beings is the production of shells by oyster and clams and the like.
That, too, is only temporary (albeit on a longer scale).
Regards,
About 25 years ago while working for a large industrial research lab I was requested to join a team of scientists to develop a way to remove and sequester CO2 from the atmosphere. The team leader read off the list of “must haves” from Corporate. Highly efficient, widely applicable, robust, scalable, low cost, high margin, re-usable, etc. As people started proposing a variety of different (imo hare-brained) approaches I somewhat rudely interrupted them by saying “It’s called wood.”. After agreeing that this simple solution met almost all the deliverables on the list, the idea was rejected because it was not patentable.
Why is that first paragraph posted twice? How do you not notice that?
If only there could discover something that takes CO2 out of the air and maybe combine it with something plentiful like water and turn it into a useable compound. That would solve all our problems.
If only there could discover something that takes CO2 out of the air and maybe combine it with something plentiful like water and turn it into a useable compound. That would solve all our problems.
Ever driven by one of these solar farms popping up these days? Not a blade of grass underneath those acres of solar panels.
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