West is the new north.
Posted on 04/21/2009 8:12:45 PM PDT by neverdem
NEW YORK (AFP) – Scientists in New York have touted an experimental plan to lock carbon dioxide gasses underground and prevent big polluters like China and the United States from wrecking the world's climate.
The idea, called carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, is at the cutting edge of attempts to dramatically reduce CO2 spewed by industrial plants into the atmosphere.
The technology exists, but is little tested and a group of energy companies, academics and state officials hope to make New York one of the field's trail blazers.
"We have the opportunity to demonstrate new technology that could be revolutionary internationally," Paul DeCotis, deputy head of energy policy for New York state, told a conference at Columbia University.
"We would love to be exporting to the rest of the world on carbon capture sequestration technology."
These are early days for the daring concept, in which CO2 gasses from coal factories and other sources of pollution are captured, rather than being allowed to pour skyward, and injected deep underground.
Despite global interest, high costs and lingering uncertainties about safety mean only a handful of projects are running. The world's first coal-fired power plant to use CCS opened last year in Germany.
New York's planned experiment at a coal-fired plant in Jamestown, in the far north of the state, has government backing. But new regulations and funding are needed before work can even start.
Experts at a conference hosted by Columbia's Earth Institute in New York city said the technology could be a planet saver when economies are turning increasingly to coal as an abundant, but dirty alternative to oil.
"Burning coal is not clean," said Jared Snyder, state assistant commissioner for air resources and climate change. "But with carbon capture and sequestration, the use of fossil fuels can at least..."
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Obama believes on this carbon sequestration BS too
West is the new north.
Let’s all wear oxygen tanks like scuba divers wear, and set up the hoses and tubes so as to capture all of the CO2 that we exhale.
Do these global warming idiots know that we exhale carbon dioxide with each breath? Human and animal life respiration has got to be a big source of CO2. What are they going to do about that?
How about locking those so called scientists away First
Can it get any more AB$URD?
I think we should trap it inside coke cans.
The decaying leaves each autumn produce even more CO2 than that AND all the cars and factory’s!
We are carbon based!
How can NY be OVERDRAWN ...
They still Have CHECKS LEFT!!!
LOL And the Adirondacks are in the Southern Tier.
I propose a TAX on your luxury effervescence!
I’ve been telling these IDIOTS for years... I can cut CO2 levels by 42% Overnight... just need the idiot LIBERALS to Stop EXHALING!!!
Skyrocket Bammy in January, 2008:
“When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations.
That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.”
BOHICA
Yup! Well, to the rest of the world, I guess “Upstate” is as specific as you can get.
Your taxes (which they’ll be raising again) at work.
I have an idea. Everyone who thinks CO2 is a ‘pollutant’ needs to inhale as deeply as possible and never exhale. The rest of us will thank them for it in more ways than one.
..AND NO CHEATING! 
...and use a large clear (sealed) fishbowl.
What are they going to do about that? Well they already see human life as a “problem” to be “solved”, so what they’ll do is continue to make all productive activity and day to day life as difficult and expensive as possible while turning us into peons.
Then keep herding everyone into the urban gutters, living in ghetto high rises while blocking off even larger chunks of land from human development, so that the swamps can stay pristine.
Pay your taxes, eat your bean curd, show up on time for the overcrowded 20mph train, and enjoy your allotted hour of PBS before mandatory 7pm lights out in your un-climate-controlled subsidized hovel.
More insanity.
Maybe we can get carbonated well water now.
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