Posted on 10/02/2017 5:11:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The project to develop the world’s first full-scale carbon capture and storage system located on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) is moving along with subsidiaries of Shell and Total signing on to join Statoil in leading the effort.
Norwegian state-owned carbon capture technology firm Gassnova awarded Statoil the contract for the first phase of the project June 2017. Norske Shell and Total E&P Norge are now entering as equal partners, while Statoil will lead the project.
The storage project is part of Norwegian government’s efforts to develop full-scale carbon capture and storage in Norway so that long-term climate targets in Norway and the EU can be reached. If built, it will be the world’s first carbon storage site to receive carbon dioxide from several industrial sources.
The first phase of this CO2 project could reach a capacity of approximately 1.5 million ton per year, according to Statoil.
“Statoil believes that without carbon capture and storage, it is not realistic to meet the global climate target as defined in the Paris Agreement.
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Starving the trees.
Why don’t they just grow trees?
Yeah, and then the Govt makes you shut down the grid and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man rampages through downtown.
Hey, they’re making oil!
What a colossal waste of money and resources.
This is what is meant with “throwing money down the drain.” These fools are really, really, really, really stupid. CO2 is absolutely necessary for plant life. It all started with a false premise that many in power believed, now everyone is suffering its ramifications. A fool and his money are soon parted.
Why don’t they just grow trees?
Shh! Where’s the government grants in that! ;-)
These people are deranged. I wonder if they are going to have the cows wear those things that capture their cow farts.
What part of “carbon based life forms” do these morons not understand?!
As a side note, maybe this is a way of assuaging Norway's guilty conscience. It sells all that North Sea oil to other countries in order finance its cradle-to-grave socialist government while posing as a holier than thou world environmental leader.
All this while the Muslims take over their country with 8th century barbarism.
This is profoundly troubling.
CO2 is absolutely essential for life. It is, literally, the material with which all organisms are made.
The trouble with schemes to extract CO2 from the air and render it into a form unusable by living organisms is that a lot of damage can be done before the effects become noticeable. CO2 is already at geographic historical lows; in the early evolution of life, CO2 was in percent ranges, not parts per million. Plants require the air to contain a certain minimum concentration of CO2 in order to be able to extract it from the air. However, not all plants would be equally susceptible to drops in CO2 concentration. So the first effects of depleting CO2 from the air is that the most susceptible plants would start dying off. Would anyone notice entire species starting to ail? Once anyone noticed, would they be able to correctly diagnose the problem? How many years of research would it take to determine that plant species X is dying off because it cannot extract CO2 from the air? Another complication is that while the plants are dying off, there would not be much change in the actual concentration of CO2 in the air, because the dead plants would decay and release their CO2 back into the air. So the concentration of CO2 would hover around whatever the critical concentration is for that plant species. Meanwhile, global biomass would be decreasing, because of the CO2 that is continually being pumped out of the air and rendered into biologically unavailable forms.
By the time the damage becomes noticeable and the cause is determined, the biosphere of the planet would already be gravely damaged.
Removal of CO2 in the manner described here is an existential threat to all life on earth. Unlike the hypothesis that CO2 somehow controls the heat content of the atmosphere—a hypothesis that has yet to be scientifically demonstrated—the effects of the removal of CO2 from the air can be predicted using very well established scientific concepts. Just like I did here...
Vanuatu volcano erupting
How will these models help then?
Of course they waste energy and spew pollution into the atmosphere to perform this CO2 capture, transport and store process.
What a waste of plant food, energy, talent and other resources!
Creative way to p!$s away petrodollars.
Brilliant move by Statoil, they make money on manufacturing the “problem” and the “solution” ...
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