Comments on: First US State to Codify Law for Carbon Sequestration is Wyoming http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/first-us-state-to-codify-law-for-carbon-sequestration-is-wyoming/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Kelly Fuller http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/first-us-state-to-codify-law-for-carbon-sequestration-is-wyoming/#comment-9422 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:07:53 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=10382#comment-9422 Hi Susan,

Sorry to be so slow replying. The short answer is, we don’t know.

Kelly

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/first-us-state-to-codify-law-for-carbon-sequestration-is-wyoming/#comment-9421 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:39:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=10382#comment-9421 Interesting, thanks for the additional info. Do you think they will adopt any of your thoughts?

]]> By: Kelly Fuller http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/first-us-state-to-codify-law-for-carbon-sequestration-is-wyoming/#comment-9420 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:31:40 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=10382#comment-9420 We looked into what Wyoming was proposing last year and made some recommendations about what should be included in a carbon sequestration statute. http://plainsjustice.org/files/GCS_fact_sheet.pdf

Kelly Fuller

Communications Director

Plains Justice (a public-interest law and policy center serving the northern plains)

]]> By: origo http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/first-us-state-to-codify-law-for-carbon-sequestration-is-wyoming/#comment-9419 Mon, 31 May 2010 19:11:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=10382#comment-9419 Why are those in the U.S. Congress providing $4 billion to develop carbon dioxide sequestration technology when that will serve only to prolong our dependence on carbon fuels? the answer is that carbon sequestration technology has not been fully developed.

Carbon sequestration will be another environmental potential disaster waiting to happen. A sudden massive release of pressurized carbon dioxide will suffocate all animal life within the area of the release. Remember, carbon dioxide is heavier than air.

How many more BP-type oil spills, fly ash spills [TVA in 2008], Three Mile Islands and Chernobyls must we endure before we reach a catastrophic environmental point of no return?

Ironically, oil in the Gulf is floating on top of the very answer to our energy independence! Water is our only source of renewable fuel available in the huge quantities needed to supplant gasoline.

Why can’t Congress use that $4 billion to develop vehicle onboard water-splitting systems so that we can achieve total energy independence from fossil fuels now—not sometime in the future? No carbon dioxide emissions from water means no need for carbon dioxide sequestration.

Water requires no exploration, drilling, refining, mining, transportation, service stations, or disposal of fly ash or nuclear waste. It is non-flammable; recyclable; and consumes no atmospheric oxygen.

Water is easily split into hydrogen and oxygen with any of several available photocatalyts, using sunlight, and electric lighting at night, to power the process aboard motor vehicles equipped with hydrogen internal combustion engines, or equipped with fuel cells and electric motors. Larger, stationary fuel cells can generate electricity for individual businesses or homes.

Solar, wind and geothermal are great sources of non-carbon energy, but they are stationary. We need a portable, onboard water-splitting technology now. Electric vehicles that depend upon batteries charged from stationary sources may be but an interim solution until water dissociation systems for vehicles are developed. These systems would obviate the need for a nationwide hydrogen or battery recharging infrastructure to support a technology that would become obsolete in the not too distant future.

Origo

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