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Burying CO2 to fight global warming a step closer to reality
DailyIndia.com ^
| May 25, 2008
Posted on 05/25/2008 11:29:17 AM PDT by PROCON
Washington, May 25: Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and burying it away underground, which has on paper been described as one of the most effective in cutting down on greenhouse gases, is moving closer to reality.
According to a report in Discovery News, the process, known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), has already been given the green signal by the US Department of Energy (DOE), with a funding of 126 million dollars for two large-scale carbon storage projects in California and the Midwest.
The DOE had previously announced 253.7 million dollars in funding for four others.
"The announcement of these two projects, making a total of six, each with a minimum of a million tons of CO2 injected underground, is a massive step forward," said Julio Friedmann of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccs; environment; globalwarming; sequestration
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To: stayathomemom
Exactly my thought. When one of these CO2 stores cracks from lack of CP or human error in general and floods the surrounding acres of land and kills a couple thousand people and all of the wildlife who will they blame?
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:06:35 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Bitter backwoods east Texan Christian gun clinger with the AC at 72 degrees.)
To: PROCON
Tax dollars already in play? That’s it, Game Over.
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:16:37 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: PROCON
Plant a tree - especially one that shades asphalt or concrete. There is micro change in cities acting as heat dumps - the tree bit solves it.
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:20:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: Waco
Hey, we can all just exhale into plastic Walmart bags, send them to DC and they can bury them! But what happens when plants aren’t making oxygen because they aren’t getting any CO2? We’ll have to wait until Al Gore figures it out.
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:27:37 PM PDT
by
Oldpuppymax
(AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
To: PROCON
Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and burying it away underground Riiiight. Heck use this, it'll work just as good ya know...
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:28:08 PM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: PROCON
Haven’t these idiots heard of “plants”? You know, trees, grass, chrysanthemums? Photosynthesis? Carbon dioxide and sunlight in, oxygen out? Grade school science, remember?
To: PROCON
I don’t believe in anthropogenic Global Warming but I would love for these carbon sequestration devices to be successful at lowering the CO2 in the atmosphere, because it would kill the need to destroy our economy.
Al Gore would be inconsolable.
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:33:55 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: PROCON
it would be better for the planet to bury the global warmists, with Al Gore first in line.
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posted on
05/25/2008 12:36:57 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: PROCON
In Cameroon, the waters of Lakes Nyos and Monoun absorb CO2 that seeps into the lake bed from volcanic sources. At some point, when the water can no longer absorb the gas, the entire lake erupts like a warm bottle of soft drink does when the cap is released- the gas violently comes out of solution and fills displaces the air above and downwind of the lake.
In the 1990s in an eruption, thousands of people sleeping in an nearby town died.
If we decide to sequester CO2 by forcing it into deep wells, we risk a similar future disaster if the wellhead is ever broken open.
To: theBuckwheat
To: theBuckwheat
IMHO, if every econut had to pay for their failed ideas with their lives, a lot of this soft thought stuff would dry up. We could build a coliseum with a huge carbon footprint and feed the losers to the lions. the coliseum is old but good technology that we know works and the lions gotta eat too. Think about it, science would get back to serious endeavors in no time and we would then get to solving this energy problem with real solutions, not “Wind and Solar” as the nuts are always pushing.
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posted on
05/25/2008 1:21:41 PM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Dog breath? I don't think so.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/25/2008 1:35:57 PM PDT
by
Squeako
(Bipartisan: Because you can't destroy America all by yourself.)
To: Fresh Wind
The idiots who push to bury CO2 in order to stop global warming remind me of King Canute trying to stop the tide from rising. At least King Canute was a decent king,
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:01:44 PM PDT
by
Left2Right
("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse (especially Iran's)")
To: Thebaddog
We are being given the Bum's Rush to get us allow all manner of intrusions, restrictions, regulations, taxes and fees into place before the fact sinks in that there are many more factors that influence the climate beyond CO2.
Missing from the debate so far is: water vapor and the role of the sun. But these two, taken together, vastly outweigh CO2 and methane. Any scientist, let alone politician or member of the MSM who is not interested in them has already told me they have signed on to an agenda of change.
Agenda first, evidence later! (Alice in Wonderland Rules, the Peer Reviewed Version)
To: PROCON; writer33
...burying it away underground...That means they have to drill a hole? Why not start in ANWR?
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posted on
05/25/2008 3:10:26 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(May is Liberal Awareness Month.)
To: Libloather
That means they have to drill a hole? Why not start in ANWR?" Do not lose that thought! It is brilliant!
The CO2 acts to push the oil out of the ground into the well for easier extraction.
The CO2 that escapes then freezes in midair in chunks,falls to the ground and replenishes the melting Artic icepack.
Alright, the last sentence was pure BS, but you have to admit, it sounds good.
But your idea to bury the CO2 makes ANWR a twofer.
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posted on
05/25/2008 3:34:05 PM PDT
by
exit82
(People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
To: PROCON; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:12:19 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: Fresh Wind
It seeps out through cracks. Burying CO2 is sort of like shoveling water.And there your have it. Money for nothing (and your chicks for free, hopefully).
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:14:36 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: PROCON
Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and burying it away underground, which has on paper been described as one of the most effective in cutting down on greenhouse gases,
STARVE THE TREES
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:22:16 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: TheZMan
"When one of these CO2 stores cracks from lack of CP or human error in general and floods the surrounding acres of land and kills a couple thousand people and all of the wildlife who will they blame? "
Bush's fault.
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:23:12 PM PDT
by
Bratch
(“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” --- Edmund Burke)
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