Government Begins Work on CO2 Storage Project at Teapot Dome

Tampa Bay Online; AP News ^ | Jan 28, 2004 | Sarah Cooke, Associated Press Writer

[Z-28]

Sounds good to me... even if there is not any so-called "Global Warming," we get more American oil.

[GeronL]

hhhmmmm..... there has to be something... something... that the left can criticize about this

[Waco]

Dry ice,,,,,,

[djf]

Well, I'm not left at all, but will say this: the amount of CO2 that man could store from now till doomsday is only an insignificant fraction of the total amount out there. It's a waste because we could never even make a dent.

[Wonder Warthog]

"That's not true of other mechanisms," she said. "If you grow more (trees, which consume carbon dioxide) how do you assure it doesn't all go up in a forest fire or that another generation decides to go ahead and farm that area?"

Easy---you make paper out of it, and bury it in landfills.

STOP GLOBAL WARMING---DON'T RECYCLE PAPER!!!!

[Bad Dog2]

If the C02 pumped undergroud did manage to leak into the aquifier you would have --- Carbonated Water! Quick, notify all of the softdrink manaufacturers!

[Rebelbase]

Agreed. This is a symbolic action to appease the global warming crowd.

As far as making a dent in the total CO2 content of the atmosphere it will be a complete failure.

I hope Bush never uses this as an example of his administration's actions to help reduce atmospheric CO2.

[HangThemHigh]

We could conceivably store the excess CO2 created by burning fossil fuels since you are just putting it back in the ground, where it came from in the first place. You don't want to get all the CO2, plants breathe it.

The real issue here is that the cost will probably be prohibitive. The power needed to extract the CO2 from the air and force it into the ground will be quite large. There is no financial return whatsoever from any of this, so it will require a large tax increase or rise in energy price to pay for it. Got any good walking shoes?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[capt. norm]

""(Carbon dioxide) is the primary global greenhouse gas "

Carbon dioxide is NOT the primary greenhouse gas. Water vapor is, and the global warmers hate to admit it because it draws attention to the stupidity of their theories.

The computer models cannot handle water vapor (or any part of the water cycle) because it would take a lot more computing power and a lot more data input world-wide to deal with it correctly. Neither will be available any time soon.

Nothing in the atmosphere can store heat anywhere nearly as efficiently as the water molecule. People who use humidifiers with their heat in winter readily notice that the humidified air holds heat much better than dry air.

This is one of the priciples that drives weather mechanisms on this planet and yet the global warming models are unable to deal with water vapor (and clouds which are part of the water vapor cycle)

The global warmers have to tell us that water vapor and clouds have no effect but carbon dioxide does. That is exactly upside-down from reality.

What we have are some scientists who have to come up with results showing global warming or they will lose their jobs/grants and so they dutifully produce computer models which produce the results that they were designed to produce.

[GladesGuru]

Oh No!!

They're giving Holy Mother Gaia a terrible case of gas!

[arete]

I hope Bush never uses this as an example of his administration's actions to help reduce atmospheric CO2.

Why don't we just build a fleet of rocket powered tankers and send all the CO2 to the moon or Mars and let it be a problem for the people up there?

Richard W.

[TheBattman]

bump for later.

[jslade]

CO2-IT'S PLANT FOOD STUPID!

[sergeantdave]

What a great idea.

Maybe next when the Mississippi River floods, we can make ice cubes from the floodwaters and ship the cubes to the Arctic before it ruins homes and farms.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Z-28]

ha-ha :)

[DFW_Repub]

What happens when geologic activity causes all that gas to leak?