Posted on 09/02/2009 10:50:09 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Last week the California Energy Commission said it will consider approving a carbon-capture plant proposed by a joint venture of units of Rio Tinto Plc and BP Plc.
Dubbed the Hydrogen Energy International LLC, the venture has provided enough information to start a formal, yearlong certification process for the plant, the CEC said at its regularly scheduled meeting.
The proposed hydrogen-powered electricity generating facility for the Kern County area would capture and sequester (store) most of its carbon related emissions. The facility will be similar to the cleanest natural gas power plants, but instead of using natural gas to run its turbine electrical generators, the plant will use hydrogen. The result will be local power generation in a local area with growing power demands - enough power for over 150,000 homes - along with 90% reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide. The CO2 emissions will be captured and stored deep underground, preventing release into the atmosphere.
The proposal for the project was put forth by units of BP and Rio Tinto in 2008 and involves building the 350-megawatt carbon-capture plant in the San Joaquin Valley, roughly seven miles west of Bakersfield. Last month Occidental Petroleum said it would consider using the carbon dioxide for oil recovery and storage in its nearby Elk Hills oil field.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaenergynews.com ...
Maybe they can sequester delta smelt farts. Sure, each one is just a teeny bubble, but stop the pumps, starve the farmers, and in bulk, they could probably fire up a lawnmower for half an hour.
Here’s a state that is near bankruptcy and yet they just can’t get away from the idea that they have to be the avante garde of every new idea.
Huh. Gee, my botany professor at university taught us that it was plants that captured carbon...
Question: where does the hydrogen that they’re going to burn come from?
Thousands of acres of carbon capturing vegetables have been taken out of production in the central valley due to a lack of water. This kind of plant is really stupid and a waste of money.
The article doesn’t say where the hydrogen comes from.
It does say it gets funding from a clean coal program.
Does anyone know from another source if this is actually a convoluted coal powered plant.
CA is out of touch with reality—run by crooks.
I think they had to have that in the title to get money from Obama ...350 million....or so!
Currently, global hydrogen production is 48% from natural gas, 30% from oil, and 18% from coal; water electrolysis accounts for only 4%.
It will be interesting to watch this.
I suppose Obama won’t allow the US to derive its own Hydrogen, either.
If you are just going to burn it, hydrogen is not an energy source - it's a storage media, and one that is horribly inefficient to use.
Obviously this all changes, however, if we figure out how to control nuclear fusion.
Doesn't provide union jobs for Democrat voters.
There’s a total waste of $1 billion dollars.
Where the hell is californistan going to get a billion bucks while at the same time, is paying their vendors with IOU’s?
Ironic, eh? You'd think the forestry industry would be considered the ultimate "green job". A renewable energy source that, as a function of its production, sequesters C02.
God, liberals are stupid.
Where are they going to get all the Hydrogen? And how are they going to power that process?
Here we have an article from an operation called "California Energy News", and they completely avoid the single most important aspect of this entire proposal: where are they going to get the hydrogen?
A simple, obvious question that every Joe Sixpack on Free Republic immediately thinks of when they see the word, "hyrdogen".
We're not living in the "Information Age", we're living in the Propaganda Age.
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