[BamaCharm]

I brought this approach up last week in a thread here about global warming. Today, I received an invitation by email to attend a conference on geological carbon sequestration. Hold on to your pocketbook. If this comes to fruition, the implementation and operational costs will be passed on to utility ratepayers. The anti-capitalists, however, will not be pleased. They want to ride the global warming bandwagon in order to reduce industrial output. Secondly, the CO2 can be liquified, and injected into oil reservoirs where it acts as a solvent for extraction of the nearly two-thirds of petroleum reserves trapped in the underlying rock formations. Domestic oil supplies could increase substantially. Greenies will hate that.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

geological carbon sequestration

What's any of this got to do with horses?

/just kidding

[sionnsar]

Power Lunch seminar

Am I required to wear my Power tie?

[saganite]

The liquified CO2 could be sold to oil companies to aid in the extraction of more oil? Oh, the irony!

[Shadow44]

I still think the whole idea is incredibly stupid.

[Red Badger]

Why can't it be "sequestered" in stuff like carbon fibers, diamonds and such.........

[Mr. K]

Sell it to coca-Cola and Pepsi... How DO they make their carbonated beverages anywhose?

lets see, at 5mg per burp times 6 burps per cola times 3 colas per day time 365 times 100 million people... I cam guessing that coke and Pepsi are TOTALLY responsible for global warming dure to carbon diaxide emissions.

Thats 3,285,000 Kg per year. I am TOTALLY making this up!!!

Maybe they can 'buy' carbon credits (I'll sell them some)

[siunevada]

The anti-capitalists, however, will not be pleased. They want to ride the global warming bandwagon in order to reduce industrial output.

Um, let's see. No problem-o.

Any sequestration undertaken by private industry runs the risk of taking too much CO2 out of the atmosphere, tipping the balance toward letting too much heat escape with the consequent climatic risks that implies. (Hey! It's easy to be green, no matter what Kermit says!)

We'll need to form some think tanks, conduct studies and start writing our grant proposals for the funding this important issue demands.

There's a reason Chicken Little runs around in circles. They aren't tied into warming per se, that's the panic de jour. Any panic will do.

[HKMk23]

I propose that get as much cO@ out of the atmosphere as humanly possible and pump it all down into the bottom of the ocean; since that's where most of it is coming from, in the first place. Diffusing it into the sea at deep water locations would show the greenies that we understand their need feel good while accomplishing next to nothing. Yeah, it'd be an economic treadmill, but it's the least damaging solution I can think of. Excess would, of course, be available to the oil industry for the aforementioned purpose.

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[3niner]

This is incredibly stupid.

The Earth already does this, on a scale that beggars the imagination. The oceans contain almost 100 times as much carbon as the atmosphere. Much of this carbon gets trapped in carbon rich compounds which sink to the bottom.

Over long periods of time, huge amounts of carbon accumulate on ocean floors, all over the world. These carbon deposits eventually get pushed beneath continental plates, through plate tectonics. The ocean floor rock (with its huge carbon load) eventually gets all the way down to the mantle, where it melts, and stays trapped below the Earth's crust, for a very long time.

[SuziQ]

Can anyone explain to me just what the heck is "carbon sequestration"?

[sergeantdave]

This scam will cost every American family an additional $2,000 annually, according to economists at the Wharton School.

Oh, and 2 to 3 million jobs will be destroyed.

[tacticalogic]

"Geological Carbon Sequestration"

Isn't that just a fancy name for "coal mine"?

[denydenydeny]

It's the same thing that happened here. The Global Warming witch doctors don't really want to do anything outside the box to lower CO2 emissions or cool the earth.

They have one agenda, and one agenda only, and it doesn't have anything to do with climate.