Comments on: Carbon Capture and Storage Progressing Toward Feasibility http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dean Procter http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-5965 Dean Procter Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:47:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-5965 Grow plants and trees, nature's carbon capture device, chop them down and bury them, plant new ones. Basic chemistry CO2 and H2O = Acid, weak, but bad for oceans, water tables, rocks? Sort of like sweeping it under the carpet really. Grow plants and trees, nature’s carbon capture device, chop them down and bury them, plant new ones.

Basic chemistry CO2 and H2O = Acid, weak, but bad for oceans, water tables, rocks? Sort of like sweeping it under the carpet really.

]]> By: Dean Procter http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-23453 Dean Procter Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:47:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-23453 Grow plants and trees, nature's carbon capture device, chop them down and bury them, plant new ones. Basic chemistry CO2 and H2O = Acid, weak, but bad for oceans, water tables, rocks? Sort of like sweeping it under the carpet really. Grow plants and trees, nature’s carbon capture device, chop them down and bury them, plant new ones.

Basic chemistry CO2 and H2O = Acid, weak, but bad for oceans, water tables, rocks? Sort of like sweeping it under the carpet really.

]]> By: Global Patriot http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-5964 Global Patriot Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:31:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-5964 While I see CCS playing a role in certain environments, and for a certain period of time, I'm still not convinced that it's a viable long term play that will make a significant difference in the CO2 equation. And while I do support spot solutions that help mitigate the overall problem... it doesn't really solve the key issue of reducing the amount of CO2 being generated. While I see CCS playing a role in certain environments, and for a certain period of time, I’m still not convinced that it’s a viable long term play that will make a significant difference in the CO2 equation.

And while I do support spot solutions that help mitigate the overall problem… it doesn’t really solve the key issue of reducing the amount of CO2 being generated.

]]> By: Global Patriot http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-23452 Global Patriot Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:31:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-23452 While I see CCS playing a role in certain environments, and for a certain period of time, I'm still not convinced that it's a viable long term play that will make a significant difference in the CO2 equation. And while I do support spot solutions that help mitigate the overall problem... it doesn't really solve the key issue of reducing the amount of CO2 being generated. While I see CCS playing a role in certain environments, and for a certain period of time, I’m still not convinced that it’s a viable long term play that will make a significant difference in the CO2 equation.

And while I do support spot solutions that help mitigate the overall problem… it doesn’t really solve the key issue of reducing the amount of CO2 being generated.

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-5963 russ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:00:07 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-5963 Paul - syn gas or from a power plant - CO2 is CO2 it is the same thing - sorry about that. Cry about greenwash and do nothing - be a true green! Paul – syn gas or from a power plant – CO2 is CO2 it is the same thing – sorry about that.

Cry about greenwash and do nothing – be a true green!

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-23451 russ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-23451 Paul - syn gas or from a power plant - CO2 is CO2 it is the same thing - sorry about that. Cry about greenwash and do nothing - be a true green! Paul – syn gas or from a power plant – CO2 is CO2 it is the same thing – sorry about that.

Cry about greenwash and do nothing – be a true green!

]]> By: Paul http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-5962 Paul Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:33:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-5962 "nothing new"?? There isn't a single CO2 capture and storage demo plant anywhere on the planet running off a conventional coal fired rankin cycle plant, Great Plains is Synfuel - Coal "Gasification", a totally different process. If that plant alone already ships 8,000 metric tons of CO2 daily (3 Million tons a year) to help pressurize depleted Canadian oil wells, where does the other 6 Billion tons per year from the rest of the coal plants in the US go when there isn't a single public authority willing to ok CO2 injection on US soil due to potential public liability if CO2 gas seeps out??? Here is the scale of the problem. Compare the infrastructure required to transport and long term store 6 Billion tons of CO2 per year with the infrastructure that moves 1 Billion metric ton of oil consumed in the US each year. It's all greenwash political BS! “nothing new”?? There isn’t a single CO2 capture and storage demo plant anywhere on the planet running off a conventional coal fired rankin cycle plant, Great Plains is Synfuel – Coal “Gasification”, a totally different process.

If that plant alone already ships 8,000 metric tons of CO2 daily (3 Million tons a year) to help pressurize depleted Canadian oil wells, where does the other 6 Billion tons per year from the rest of the coal plants in the US go when there isn’t a single public authority willing to ok CO2 injection on US soil due to potential public liability if CO2 gas seeps out???

Here is the scale of the problem. Compare the infrastructure required to transport and long term store 6 Billion tons of CO2 per year with the infrastructure that moves 1 Billion metric ton of oil consumed in the US each year.

It’s all greenwash political BS!

]]> By: Paul http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-23450 Paul Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-23450 "nothing new"?? There isn't a single CO2 capture and storage demo plant anywhere on the planet running off a conventional coal fired rankin cycle plant, Great Plains is Synfuel - Coal "Gasification", a totally different process. If that plant alone already ships 8,000 metric tons of CO2 daily (3 Million tons a year) to help pressurize depleted Canadian oil wells, where does the other 6 Billion tons per year from the rest of the coal plants in the US go when there isn't a single public authority willing to ok CO2 injection on US soil due to potential public liability if CO2 gas seeps out??? Here is the scale of the problem. Compare the infrastructure required to transport and long term store 6 Billion tons of CO2 per year with the infrastructure that moves 1 Billion metric ton of oil consumed in the US each year. It's all greenwash political BS! “nothing new”?? There isn’t a single CO2 capture and storage demo plant anywhere on the planet running off a conventional coal fired rankin cycle plant, Great Plains is Synfuel – Coal “Gasification”, a totally different process.

If that plant alone already ships 8,000 metric tons of CO2 daily (3 Million tons a year) to help pressurize depleted Canadian oil wells, where does the other 6 Billion tons per year from the rest of the coal plants in the US go when there isn’t a single public authority willing to ok CO2 injection on US soil due to potential public liability if CO2 gas seeps out???

Here is the scale of the problem. Compare the infrastructure required to transport and long term store 6 Billion tons of CO2 per year with the infrastructure that moves 1 Billion metric ton of oil consumed in the US each year.

It’s all greenwash political BS!

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-5961 russ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:20:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-5961 Check the Great Plains Gasification project just out of Bismark, ND - they have been doing it for years and sending CO2 by pipeline to old oil fields in Canada where is used to enhance oil recovery. None of the technologies listed above are new or even new to CO2 separation. Makes a nice press release though. Check the Great Plains Gasification project just out of Bismark, ND – they have been doing it for years and sending CO2 by pipeline to old oil fields in Canada where is used to enhance oil recovery.

None of the technologies listed above are new or even new to CO2 separation. Makes a nice press release though.

]]> By: russ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/10/carbon-capture-and-storage/#comment-23449 russ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2769#comment-23449 Check the Great Plains Gasification project just out of Bismark, ND - they have been doing it for years and sending CO2 by pipeline to old oil fields in Canada where is used to enhance oil recovery. None of the technologies listed above are new or even new to CO2 separation. Makes a nice press release though. Check the Great Plains Gasification project just out of Bismark, ND – they have been doing it for years and sending CO2 by pipeline to old oil fields in Canada where is used to enhance oil recovery.

None of the technologies listed above are new or even new to CO2 separation. Makes a nice press release though.

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