Carbon capture options and costs

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Carbon capture (an interim technology which may be useful for 30 or 40 years with coal and other dirty energy sources) - this report analyses the costs and options


http://arch.rivm.nl/env/int/ipcc/pages_media/SRCCS-final/IPCCSpecialReportonCarbondioxideCaptureandStorage.htm


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BendiBus

I always have a picture in my mind of an undersea earthquake causing a massive CO2 release from one of these storage locations and turning the ocean into something like a well-shaken can of 7-up :eek: Followed by an almost instant increase in greenhouse gas in the amosphere.

Is this pure hysteria on my part

Lennoxschips

Yeah, that's what I always worried about too!

piraka

BendiBus wrote:

I always have a picture in my mind of an undersea earthquake causing a massive CO2 release from one of these storage locations and turning the ocean into something like a well-shaken can of 7-up :eek: Followed by an almost instant increase in greenhouse gas in the amosphere.

Is this pure hysteria on my part

Can't be any worse than the methane chlatrates

BendiBus

piraka wrote:

Can't be any worse than the methane chlatrates

Now I'm totally hysterical :eek:

The Future. The juiciest disaster-movie scenario would be a release of enough methane to significantly change the atmospheric concentration, on a time scale that is fast compared with the lifetime of methane.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/12/methane-hydrates-and-global-warming/

piraka

BendiBus wrote:

Now I'm totally hysterical :eek:

Ooops

DrFunkenstein

If you are looking to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, you should really petition for the legalisation of cannabis ruderillis, or simply put Hemp, ruderillis looks totally different to the traditional drug form.

This strain of cannabis contains no active drug ingredients and anyone who did try to put it to such a use would end up with a nasty headache.

But my point is, cannabis is an annual crop which can grow up to 15 feet in a single growing season!!! It takes in around 3 times the amount of carbon compared to any other plant. Most plants grow optimally at atmospheric carbon concentrations of 500ppm while Hemp reaches optimum growth at 1500ppm

3 times the carbon sequestration power than any other plant of comparable size.

Cost, how much could it cost to let nature take its course?

Cannabis can grow in poor soil and actually conditions soil. After it has fulfilled the growth cycle, it can be used for bio ethanol / bio diesel as well as any other uses such as Paper, Clothes, Organic Animal feed.

So really get over the taboo of cannabis its pros far outweigh the cons. Yet it remains illegal to grow this plant. Madness

All information should be verifiable by a simple google search.

Questions and comments welcome..


Regards,
Dr. Funkenstein

Capt'n Midnight

DrFunkenstein wrote:

you should really petition for the legalisation of cannabis ruderillis, or simply put Hemp,

So if you win the $25m Branson is offering, would that be money for old rope ?

could also help provide a wind block for new forestry while the saplings are growing up

magicbastarder

i once read that a field of a certain type of wheat (can't remember which type) which grows 8 foot tall contains 400 times the excess carbon in the air directly above the field - so growing one crop of this over one one hundredth of the land area of the earth, and sequestering it, would remove all excess CO2 in the atmosphere in one year.

that all depends on the original claim being true, obviously.

probe

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

So if you win the $25m Branson is offering, would that be money for old rope ?

could also help provide a wind block for new forestry while the saplings are growing up

Branson is a marketing wa**er. He is ready to grab any bit of media hot air to make his money balloon rise higher. The day this guy does something serious, low profile, commensurate with his financial and media resources to make the planet materially greener, I’ll eat my proverbial hat!

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piraka

probe wrote:

Branson is a marketing wa**er. He is ready to grab any bit of media hot air to make his money balloon rise higher. The day this guy does something serious, low profile, commensurate with his financial and media resources to make the planet materially greener, I’ll eat my proverbial hat!

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He has a good role model in Al Gore