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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

It is technically and logistically impossible to store ALL coal generated CO2 underground, yet never ending CSS research is used as an excuse to allow Autstralian politicians (Aust is the Saudi Arabia of coal, the worlds largest coal exporter) to BS for years that coal can be made ‘green’ when in fact it’s 100% smoke and mirrors.

When will these pr%#ks EVER face the hard decisions that HAVE to be made?

It is technically and logistically impossible to store ALL coal generated CO2 underground, yet never ending CSS research is used as an excuse to allow Autstralian politicians (Aust is the Saudi Arabia of coal, the worlds largest coal exporter) to BS for years that coal can be made ‘green’ when in fact it’s 100% smoke and mirrors.

When will these pr%#ks EVER face the hard decisions that HAVE to be made?

One point- while low but growing concentrations of CO2 in the air are not toxic, with a major leak of concentrated stored CO2, people can die! (Famous Nyos lake in ’84 & ’86 http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mhalb/nyos/nyos.htm 1,800 died)

Who will accept indefinite liability?

Second Point: we are still ripping coal out of mountains in W. Virginia, an environmental tragedy and worrying about spills of toxic ash in lagoons across the country.

“Clean” coal is a terrible oxymoron.

One point- while low but growing concentrations of CO2 in the air are not toxic, with a major leak of concentrated stored CO2, people can die! (Famous Nyos lake in ’84 & ’86 http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mhalb/nyos/nyos.htm 1,800 died)

Who will accept indefinite liability?

Second Point: we are still ripping coal out of mountains in W. Virginia, an environmental tragedy and worrying about spills of toxic ash in lagoons across the country.

“Clean” coal is a terrible oxymoron.