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Basalt Vaults Could Store CO2—And Turn it to Rock
Popular Mechanics ^
| Jan 11, 2010
| Jon Luoma
Posted on 01/11/2010 1:05:11 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
I love Popular Mechanics. I’m still waiting for the nuclear powered transport blimps I read about circa 1977.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:07:15 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(Toll booths are devices funded by taxpayers to snarl traffic, waste gas and produce smog)
To: smokingfrog; IrishCatholic; mmanager; enough_idiocy; FreedomPoster; carolinablonde; proud_yank; ...
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:07:58 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
To: Tribune7
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:09:35 PM PST
by
marvlus
To: smokingfrog
If some private company finds a way to do this and make a good profit from the byproducts (instead of being subsidized)- more power to them.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:10:28 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: smokingfrog
Colossal waste of time and money.
CO2 does NOT need to be “stored” or “sequestered”.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:12:28 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: mnehring
Complete and total nonsense.
To: smokingfrog
With the earth about to enter a 30 or more year ice age (scientific forcast du jour) I question the wisdom of all this. Perhaps we should let nature run its course, surely this is cyclical and no matter how much “damage” we have done we were unable to stop ourselves from freezing.
Of course this is likely all our fault too.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:13:23 PM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is a trojan horse designed to infiltrate and bring down Western civilization.)
To: smokingfrog
I see this as quite viable, given about 350,000 years. Let’s rock! Ooops, no pun intended.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:14:51 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
To: Tribune7
I love Popular Mechanics. Im still waiting for the nuclear powered transport blimps I read about circa 1977. I think my flying car was back-ordered for few more decades.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:15:46 PM PST
by
DrDavid
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: smokingfrog
Notice: CO2 is NOT a pollutant!
That is all.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:17:48 PM PST
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: smokingfrog
They should compress the CO2 in huge tanks. When the pressure reaches 3000 PSI they should release it up Al Gore’s a** until he expands to five times his normal size, then pops.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:19:25 PM PST
by
BraveNewCommie
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Then, as I stated, let some private company take that risk on their own time. Not taxpayers (either directly or through subsidizes.)
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:20:32 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: BraveNewCommie
until he expands to five times his normal size, then pops....and it rains diamonds from all the carbon.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:20:36 PM PST
by
paulycy
(The Liberals' Racial DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE CRIMES.)
To: smokingfrog
Hey, since it is CO2, why don’t we use it in soda?
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:20:40 PM PST
by
Cheesel
(The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.)
To: smokingfrog
This is a great idea but unfortunately, it would allow capitalism to continue to thrive, prosper and lift millions of people out of poverty.
This is simply unacceptable.
Please try again.
—your friends at the environmental movement
/sarc
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:20:52 PM PST
by
lonestar67
("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
To: smokingfrog
Here is an idea. We take all the scientists and politicians that support global warming. Throw them into an active volcano. They are then trapped in basalt for a million years and we don’t have to worry about global warming.
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:21:29 PM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: smokingfrog
This reminds me of those “B” disaster movies where the evil government or corporation pumps a bunch of stuff into the earth resulting in earthquakes, plate shifts etc., that a small ragtag but courageous crew (including some disenfranchised expert)must fix.
You can’t even make this stuff up anymore.
To: smokingfrog
Oh yeah. Let’s turn plant food into rock, because the Earth doesn’t have enough rock!
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:23:18 PM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
To: smokingfrog
Man, I was walking to work this morning, choking on all the CO2.
Just kidding! CO2 is an essential part of earth’s atmosphere. It is exhaled by humans/animals, then absorbed by plants/trees to grow.
I think I learned that in 3rd grade. Or was it 2nd grade?
But I’m still willing to pay $trillions to Al Whore and Omoslem the Dirty Jihadi so they can hand all our money to UN racketeers. /s
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posted on
01/11/2010 1:23:44 PM PST
by
BraveNewCommie
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