Posted on 08/27/2011 9:09:54 PM PDT by quantim
HELLISHEIDI, Iceland (AP) -- Sometime next month, on the steaming fringes of an Icelandic volcano, an international team of scientists will begin pumping "seltzer water" into a deep hole, producing a brew that will lock away carbon dioxide forever.
Chemically disposing of CO2, the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, is a kind of 21st-century alchemy that researchers and governments have hoped for to slow or halt climate change.
The American and Icelandic designers of the "CarbFix" experiment will be capitalizing on a feature of the basalt rock underpinning 90 percent of Iceland: It is a highly reactive material that will combine its calcium with a carbon dioxide solution to form limestone - permanent, harmless limestone.
The researchers caution that their upcoming 6-to-12-month test could fall short of expectations, and warn against looking for a climate "fix" from CarbFix any year soon.
In fact, one of the objectives of the project, whose main sponsors are Reykjavik's city-owned utility and U.S. and Icelandic universities, is to train young scientists for years of work to come.
A scientific overseer of CarbFix - the man, as it happens, who also is credited with coining the term "global warming" four decades ago - says the world's failure to heed those early warnings, to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels, is driving scientists to drastic approaches.
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More nonsense on starving plants.
You’ll find rocks in Al Gore’s head. Not that you really need them for CO2 of course.
You’ll find rocks in Al Gore’s head. Not that you really need them for CO2 of course.
Without carbon dioxide, plants and trees can’t make oxygen.
We’re all gonna die.
In other words, it's a scam. Iceland hopes to get rich off the stupidity of larger, richer nations.
The researchers caution that their upcoming 6-to-12-month test could fall short of expectations, and warn against looking for a climate "fix" from CarbFix any year soon.Power companies, oil companies etc. love environmentalists. It's a way of increasing prices without having to produce more product and then blame environmental policies for not doing it..In fact, one of the objectives of the project,
whose main sponsors are Reykjavik's city-owned utility and U.S. and Icelandic universities,is to train young scientists for years of work to come.
Name one other industry that publicly asks you to use/buy less of their product.
Yep.
We’re dead.
[so...how do I stockpile oxygen...anybody know?]
FIXIN’_WHAT_AIN’T_BROKE_PING!
Most of the carbon on this planet is locked up in carbonate rocks, and not in the atmosphere or fossil fuels. Even if you burned every last bit of hydrocarbon fuel you could get your hands on, you could never bring the atmospheric CO2 back up to prehistoric levels. That is plant food locked up and out of reach, the remains of a much greener, livelier, warmer earth.
The next thing they will be doing is taking the fizz out of my beer and storing it in rocks. You don’t call these people having rocks for brains for nothing.
“N0, you can’t” have carbonated beverages. Global warming!
“Power companies, oil companies etc. love environmentalists.”
Lewis, you have an interesting viewpoint, and I happen to agree with it! I operate a Public Utility. A water company. Our profits are fixed by the Public Utilities Commission as a percentage. Right now it’s about 12%. But, to make things easy, lets say,,, around 10%. So, if it costs us $90 to produce and deliver a certain amount of water, we can charge about $100 for it. $10 profit. If the government and the epa (I hate them!) increase our costs through regulation to the point that that same “certain amount of water” costs us $180 to produce and deliver, well, at 10%, our profits are now about $20! They can even make a percentage cut, and we still make out like bandits!
Now you have increased supply, reduced usage/production and increased profit.
It's no secret (at least not to me) that it's a business model.
Stimulus money going down a real hole.
“you ask your customers to conserve their usage and they comply, you raise the price on reduced production to maintain (actually maximize) your profit.”
Abdo-lutely correct lewis! But it’s not my doing, or my preferred policy. I hate the epa, and have to deal with them on a constant basis. I have always felt that my primary responsibility is to the health and safety of our customers. The guys I work for have that somewhat down on their list of priorities. But,,, that’s the way things work right now. I can’t do a damn thing about it. I just try to live up to my true responsibilities.
“Fracking to save the planet” - I like the sound of that.
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