[Coleus]

Why don't they just plug up the cows and be done with it?

[Coleus]

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[ancient_geezer]

The project will involve work with partners in the United States, Europe and Japan, to study technologies and power systems to allow carbon dioxide to be extracted from power plants and factory flues so it can be stored geologically.

For a perpetual do-nothing boondoggle.

Mankind's impact is only 0.28% of Total Greenhouse effect

• " There is no dispute at all about the fact that even if punctiliously observed, (the Kyoto Protocol) would have an imperceptible effect on future temperatures -- one-twentieth of a degree by 2050. "
  
  Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
  Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia,
  and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service;
  in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal

[Mike Darancette]

Austrailia could become a net CO2 sink and sell the credits to the EU idiots.

If that stuff ever leaks out say by earthquake or volcanism there would be lots of dead people. But, Austrailia is lucky to have very little geologic activity.

[RandyRep]

This sounds like a really stupid idea to me for some reason. How are they going to make the vault gas-tight? Somehow the CO2 would have to replace the air in the mines...

Won't there be a big risk of an explosion of CO2 into the atmosphere if it isn't gas-tight?

Seems to me they should just plant more trees to convert the excess CO2 into oxygen.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bump

[Procyon]

Over the long term, volcanoes emit about 5 x 10¹¹ kg of CO² to the air annually. This amount is approximately 3% of that emitted by anthropogenic activity.

Check my math. That's 500 million tonnes of CO² annually (500 times what Australia is thinking of sequestering).

One additional volcano going active in a year and Australia's efforts are for nought.

This is insanity.

[MigrantOkie]

The oil companies will love this. they could get paid for what they are doing already, CO2 injection into old fields to increase production.

[farmfriend]

ping

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[Jonah Hex]

Let's see ..... if they bury all that CO2 under some springs, then they could produce enough carbonated fizzy water to put the French water bottlers out of business.

Sounds like a win-win to me!

[jpl]

More watermelon blather as America braces for another week of snow and Arctic temperatures.

[Walnut]

I wish they would send some of that global warming where We are. I'm freezing!!!!